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 this residence consumes more energy than the average
American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and
natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property
consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home.
This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area.
It's in the South.
House #2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university.
This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction
can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled
on a 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 the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil
fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity
required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater
from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground
cistern. Waste water 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. Surrounding flowers
and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the
surrounding rural landscape.
~~~~~HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville ,
Tennessee ; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore. HOUSE #2
is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas ; it is the residence the of the
President of the United States,George W. Bush.
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