Which belongs to an esteemed environmentalist and which one belongs to a man environmentalists hate?
2007-04-06
10:25:26
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14 answers
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HOUSE # 1
A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not in a northern or Midwestern "snow belt," either. It's in the South.
2007-04-06
10:26:33 ·
update #1
HOUSE # 2:
Designed by an architecture professor at a leadingnational university, this house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house contains only 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on arid high prairie in the
American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat pumps drawing ground water
through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in winter and
cools it in summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas, and it consumes 25% of the
electricity required for a conventional
heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks
and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house.
2007-04-06
10:27:57 ·
update #2
Apparently this has been asked many times already, I just didn't see it. Sorry Politica I forgot freedom of speech is reserved only for you moronic Liberals.
2007-04-06
11:07:55 ·
update #3
Nice answers Matt and Pachl
2007-04-06
11:08:46 ·
update #4