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Buildings That Can Breathe:
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY,
A green designer says we need to save energy by making our architecture more efficient.
By Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 9, 2008
Aug. 18-25, 2008 issue
I thought it was great even Teddy Roosevelt would be proud of.
Architect William McDonough is a graduate from Yale University. He is prominent Architect within his own right that designs energy/noise efficient buildings and ideas for fortune 500 and world wide companies.
I would have to say that technology is becoming progressive within this era when energy is concerned. Matter of fact in any era, energy is always an issue because energy is precious and costly to extract from the biosphere that we live in. It fuels our economy which provides a wider range of free markets and the freedoms that we enjoy. The American people are not ignorant and as a matter of fact they install the many products to conserve energy because the use of energy is costly. The American people are not ignorant and the majority does conserve the cost of their fuel usage whether it is in the home, work or the car.
As these new technologies are introduced majority of the population are not psychologically ready and unfamiliar with the technology because they live within their comfort zone. For example a $490 million sewage-treatment plant was finally built because of the sewage-treatment plant psychological operation which sewage water is converted into to clean drinkable water. Yet there are uncertainty and a level of distrust among the community on having built a sewage-treatment plant in their community. The distrust was not company but the risk of health issues that may occur. In other areas of technology concerning water, William McDonough uses Cradle to Cradle-certified products that he incorporates in to existing manufacturing plants which enables the manufacturing plant to meet higher standard of stewardship which will not to harm the wildlife or the human population near or within the vicinity of the plant. He is quoted to say “The water coming out of the textile mill is as clean as the water going in, which is Swiss drinking water. Now when a textile mill has effluent that's clean enough to drink, you're entering the next industrial revolution. All of a sudden, there's nothing to fear from human production[1].” Even if we were to look at this modern marvel the advancement of obtaining drinking water is one of the most important public health advances in the last 150 years.
As to harness free energy from the environment, William McDonough received a phone call from a university. The dean of the school wanted to renovate a hall and to have it energy efficient. The project would cost $5 million dollars. William McDonough response to him was: "Don't do it! You'll destroy the building! Go raise $1 million and put up a megawatt of wind power on a family farm in western Minnesota. Let that farmer send his kids to college, pay his mortgage and you'll produce a megawatt of power, which is more than you'll need for your building."[2] For myself I see a larger picture for the farmer’s community and for the Farmer himself. The farmer has an economic opportunity and advantage to capitalize on such a product. Just imagine, if it cost the university $5,000,000 dollars to renovate. The university can convert those dollars over the long term of 100 years. The farmer can lease part of his land for $50,000 a month. Not bad to supplement income and thus there could advantages of creating new jobs within the farming community. As I had said before and so many Republicans and Conservatives say, that energy fuels our economy which provides a wider range of free markets and the freedoms that we enjoy within our republic, the United States of America.
[1] Newsweek: Buildings that can breath - Aug 9, 2008
[2] Newsweek: Buildings that can breath - Aug 9, 2008
Buildings That Can Breathe:
THE FUTURE OF ENERGY,
A green designer says we need to save energy by making our architecture more efficient.
By Fareed Zakaria NEWSWEEK
Published Aug 9, 2008
Aug. 18-25, 2008 issue
I thought it was great even Teddy Roosevelt would be proud of.
Architect William McDonough is a graduate from Yale University. He is prominent Architect within his own right that designs energy/noise efficient buildings and ideas for fortune 500 and world wide companies.
I would have to say that technology is becoming progressive within this era when energy is concerned. Matter of fact in any era, energy is always an issue because energy is precious and costly to extract from the biosphere that we live in. It fuels our economy which provides a wider range of free markets and the freedoms that we enjoy. The American people are not ignorant and as a matter of fact they install the many products to conserve energy because the use of energy is costly. The American people are not ignorant and the majority does conserve the cost of their fuel usage whether it is in the home, work or the car.
As these new technologies are introduced majority of the population are not psychologically ready and unfamiliar with the technology because they live within their comfort zone. For example a $490 million sewage-treatment plant was finally built because of the sewage-treatment plant psychological operation which sewage water is converted into to clean drinkable water. Yet there are uncertainty and a level of distrust among the community on having built a sewage-treatment plant in their community. The distrust was not company but the risk of health issues that may occur. In other areas of technology concerning water, William McDonough uses Cradle to Cradle-certified products that he incorporates in to existing manufacturing plants which enables the manufacturing plant to meet higher standard of stewardship which will not to harm the wildlife or the human population near or within the vicinity of the plant. He is quoted to say “The water coming out of the textile mill is as clean as the water going in, which is Swiss drinking water. Now when a textile mill has effluent that's clean enough to drink, you're entering the next industrial revolution. All of a sudden, there's nothing to fear from human production[1].” Even if we were to look at this modern marvel the advancement of obtaining drinking water is one of the most important public health advances in the last 150 years.
As to harness free energy from the environment, William McDonough received a phone call from a university. The dean of the school wanted to renovate a hall and to have it energy efficient. The project would cost $5 million dollars. William McDonough response to him was: "Don't do it! You'll destroy the building! Go raise $1 million and put up a megawatt of wind power on a family farm in western Minnesota. Let that farmer send his kids to college, pay his mortgage and you'll produce a megawatt of power, which is more than you'll need for your building."[2] For myself I see a larger picture for the farmer’s community and for the Farmer himself. The farmer has an economic opportunity and advantage to capitalize on such a product. Just imagine, if it cost the university $5,000,000 dollars to renovate. The university can convert those dollars over the long term of 100 years. The farmer can lease part of his land for $50,000 a month. Not bad to supplement income and thus there could advantages of creating new jobs within the farming community. As I had said before and so many Republicans and Conservatives say, that energy fuels our economy which provides a wider range of free markets and the freedoms that we enjoy within our republic, the United States of America.
[1] Newsweek: Buildings that can breath - Aug 9, 2008
[2] Newsweek: Buildings that can breath - Aug 9, 2008
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