I'm in the process of having a house built for my family. More for
the wiff and I, since the kids are out of the house.
I'm building the house to be "green." Geothermal heating and cooling,
low flow water systems, high R-value insulation using Structural
Insulated Panels or SIP, recycled/recovered materials (including fly
ash "cement"). My energy usage should be about 1/3 to 1/4 of the
standard house of this size. We're even considering solar cells.
I had one "bubba" call me a tree hugging liberal because of this. I
politely (smirk here) responded that with all of his energy usage and
his big truck he had to buy more oil to run all of this than I would.
We buy most of that energy from countries inimical to our "American"
way of life, such as Russia, Iran and Venuzuela. As a matter of fact,
some of that money is used to make weapons for and give support to
folks that are killing Americans and whose stated goal is the
overthrow of the US. I finalized my statement (thank ROFF here) by
asking "why do you hate America so much."
By the way, its really fun watching some bubba's head explode like
something out of a Monty Python skit.
Oh, by the way, my long term goal is less footprint and less pain on
the wallet.
Frank Reid