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Green Housing Takes Root in Oregon
baldinux writes "I was reading an article in the Portland Tribune which showcased the City of Portland's noteworthy 'Rose House' (1.8mb PDF) project, part of the Office of Sustainable Development and Oregon Department of Energy's plan to encourage sustainable, energy-producing, environmentally-friendly housing for the future, a plan which is gaining national and international attention. The Rose House, at only 800 square feet (approx. 244 sq. meters), is equipped with solar panels and incorporates technologies that recapture lost heat and energy during normal appliance operation, such as ventilation. During peak hours -- when power is at highest demand -- the Rose House could produce surplus energy, feeding kilowatt hours back to the power grid, and `rolling back' the meter -- the power authority's way of purchasing the surplus energy and lessening the burden on comparatively 'dirty' power plants. The article suggests that homes like this could see net power bills as low as $0 per year. The environmental benefits of a lessened burden on centralized, often fossil fuel or nuclear, power generation plants would be considerable."
Trailers cost that much nowadays?
Where I come from, "greenhousing" is the term used when you get a bunch of people in a car, roll up the windows and smoke ridiculous amounts of pot, filling the inside with smoke.
We are one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. Back to you with the weather, Bob!
No. The market price in most areas of Texas is 5,000 for a work needed used trailer (about 700-900 sf) to 30,000 for a new trailer (about 1300-1700 sq).
Land is extra as is the required underground shelter to help protect against tornados.
I have now got the greenest house having painted it with an RGB of #00FF00.
fifteen jugglers, five believers
What are the odds of getting everything round the wrong way like that?! You are Backwards-Man!
It's because we Portlanders are so full of hot air... we'll make any flat surface we're standing on seem to take on 3 dimensions.
Yes this is absolutely true. Before that time the Chinese would eat by slamming their face down in the bowl and sucking rice and gravy through their nostrils.
Thought this was about hacking a greenhouse for a minute... back to my coffee...
Compared to Europeans, Americans live in -huge- houses, which have to be heated/cooled/cleaned, etc.
But if we had smaller houses, we'd have to get rid of some of the junk we never use!
You think a units error is "technical"?
And what exactly are "metres xor 2"?
800 sq. ft. = 74m**2.
FORTRAN FOREVER.
(I tried to put ² or ² in my post, but slashcode zaps it).
Watch this Heartland Institute video
--- You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down at the mill, fourteen hours a day, week in, week out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt.
--- Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of damp gravel, work a twenty-hour day at the mill for tuppence a month, and when we got home, our dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!
--- Well, of course, we 'ad it tough! We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o'clock at night, and lick the road clean with our tongue. We 'ad two bits of cold gravel, and worked a twenty-four hour day at the mill for six or seventy-four years, and when we got home, our dad would slash it to us with a bread knife.
--- Right. I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja.
--- Aye, and you try telling young people of today that. And they won't believe you.
--- Aye, they won't!
But the downside is you have to live in Texas.