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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Kaw1000 on August 09, 2007, 05:03:28 PM
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Here's some interesting information.
You can check this out on Snopes.com under "The Story of Two Houses"
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/Kaw1000/image0011-1.jpg)
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 Midwester n "snow belt" area. It's in the South.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c261/Kaw1000/image0022-1.jpg)
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. 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. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area
enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.
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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.
An "inconvenient truth".
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You got it all wrong, goron can polute all he wants cause he can buy carbon credits.
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lol I bet gore is running around all over the world for free, talking his sheet about global warming!! Hes not making a penny on his speeches...Its all for the good of the world!!:rolleyes:
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Gore has the media on his side, so the odds of hearing about this in one of the mainstream sources is about as good as Gore voting republican in the next election.
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What a nice comparison/contrast. Bet this fact wont get much traction in Universities LOL!
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yeah but but boosh is a neo-con. and haliburton and exxon makes lots of money.
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Yeah but George flies there in fleet of helicopters:D Cancels it all out!:aok
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high ranking party members never have to live like the peasants. soviet russia proved that.
carbon credits have yet to be proven to reduce harmless and benificial co2 tho... you may pay someone to plant trees in south america but that doesn't mean that he won't cut down the tress next to em to feed his family... it is for show only... just like the rest of algore and his phony alarmist ideas.
lazs
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My house collects rain water which we use for everything except drinking water, as does every single home here.
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Originally posted by cpxxx
Yeah but George flies there in fleet of helicopters:D Cancels it all out!:aok
And how do you think Al Gore get to all his speaking engagements?
Gore is a hypocrite, just like every other bleeding heart.
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Originally posted by SIK1
And how do you think Al Gore get to all his speaking engagements?
Gore is a hypocrite, just like every other bleeding heart.
Horse drawn buggy:p
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don't confuse the confused with the facts
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Originally posted by Curval
My house collects rain water which we use for everything except drinking water, as does every single home here.
Heya Curv, why can't you drink the rain water? Also does it rain much there?
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Heya Curv, why can't you drink the rain water?
Bird crap.
shamus
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Why not use the water trickling off your rooftop to generate energy? In the right regions, an efficient system of paddle wheels may generate enough energy to, at the very least, power a liberal's sense of self-satisfaction for a couple hours per week.
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Originally posted by Curval
My house collects rain water which we use for everything except drinking water, as does every single home here.
Please don't confuse "Rainwater" with "High Tides".
:rofl
Mac
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Originally posted by Neubob
Why not use the water trickling off your rooftop to generate energy? In the right regions, an efficient system of paddle wheels may generate enough energy to, at the very least, power a liberal's sense of self-satisfaction for a couple hours per week.
ROFLMAO :aok
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Originally posted by Curval
My house collects rain water which we use for everything except drinking water, as does every single home here.
I thought the Governor's mansion didn't...it was the only one I saw
with a dark roof anyway :)
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Originally posted by Neubob
Why not use the water trickling off your rooftop to generate energy? In the right regions, an efficient system of paddle wheels may generate enough energy to, at the very least, power a liberal's sense of self-satisfaction for a couple hours per week.
:rofl :aok
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
Heya Curv, why can't you drink the rain water? Also does it rain much there?
Shamus is pretty much correct. Bird crap, acid rain, etc etc etc.
It rains quite a bit but we aren't tropical...we're sub tropical.