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Alternative Energy Mansions

by TreeHugger on 04.11.05
Science & Technology (alternative energy)

burnt_point.jpgFinancial and aesthetic—if not environmental—considerations are leading the rich to install photovoltaic panels, wind turbines, and other alternative energy systems on their hugely expensive houses, as Forbes shows in a slideshow. Burnt Point, the 18,000-square-foot Hamptons house pictured here, uses a geothermal cooling system. Mega-houses like this are far from our less-is-more philosophy, but could this signal that alternative energy is becoming a status symbol? Could wind turbines (or whatever alt. energy system is climate-appropriate) replace Hummers are the next must-have technology? Via Off-Grid ::Forbes [by KK]

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Conspicuous Conservation: the opposite of conspicuous consumption.

jump to top John Laumer says:

Anything to bring the cost of systems down, so I welcome the affluent first adopter market. Don't bite the hand that feeds all new industries! Hats of to Forbes and Off-Grid.net to finally pick up on what greenburbs.com has been saying since 1998! Now, bring on the door-to-door cute college students PV salesmen... Heard a good joke from a bad movie today: "He could sell whale meat to Greenpeace!" Well, that's what we need, alternative energy hard-sell!

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