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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
He could have at least brought over a bunch of German architects and contractors and built a zero-emissions/carbon neutral mansion.
Then he could say: "See! It is possible!"
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That is my only problem with it. If it had geo-thermal cooling, solar water heating, solar panels, wind power generators, and some Bloom energy fuel cells, and a few electric cars, well, I could care less about how big of a house he has.
And, I thought his electric bill was that much at his TN house because he bought renewable energy to power it....
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Originally Posted by dogzilla
What about the additional heat generated by his high electrical usage. That heat doesn't just disappear. Why does the fact that he has extraordinarily high energy usage get excused by using 'green' energy? If I managed to install solar panels capable of generating 50KW of energy and used it to shine searchlights into the sky day and night, that's environmentally acceptable since I'm not burning carbon to do that? How much of that green energy is accounted for by the cap and trade and carbon credits charades?
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Actually the heat does disapate at night time, at least it is supposed to. If you have ever been in the desert, it gets very hot during the day, but since there isn't much H20 and CO2, at night it radiates back into space. But, in Phoenix, with all the concrete, CO2 brown cloud, and people flooding their lawns to water them, it can still be extremely hot in the middle of the night.