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Re: Going Green Goes Upscale: The Furman Cliffs Cottage

BenRay — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:05:51 -0000

Yeah--that did jump out at me, but then again, the point of this was to be a demo home, showcasing every environmental technology that it possibly could. In that respect, it's understandable that it's large. I am kind of afraid that it'll inspire a boom of green McMansions.

Then again, that's still far better than non-green McMansions =)

Re: Going Green Goes Upscale: The Furman Cliffs Cottage

BenRay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:22:26 -0000

I don't know if I'd call Duke Energy completely won over yet--their Ohio-Kentucky chair recently told a conference that their "cathedral strategy" here was all nukes and clean coal--but this is definitely the sort of progress that is most encouraging. The fight won't be won by crushing the energy giants, it'll be won by co-opting them.

Not that I don't WANT to crush them, of course. But this seems like a much better solution.

Re: Airbus Promises Green Aircraft By 2020

BenRay — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:31:24 -0000

Wow. That sounds incredible--and of course, something that the airlines would jump on, if it doesn't require them to buy new aircraft, a very real possibility as fuel costs skyrocket. I suspect that no amount of $15 bags and $2 waters will bail them out, and a technology that didn't take a massive taxpayer subsidy (as the airliners do) would be nice.

Re: Introducing Enhanced Commenting and Search

BenRay — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:49:40 -0000

Yay! New commenting features!