Alternative Energy Mansions
by TreeHugger on 04.11.05
Financial 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.
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!