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 per month. 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 that famous 'Environmentalist' Al Gore.
HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford , Texas ;
It is the residence of the Ex-President of the
United States , George W. Bush
An 'inconvenient truth'
for many!!!!