Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen have a built a super green dream home. Gisele is a United Nations Ambassador for the Environment, (or something like that). This is why... Bundchen declared she had the home built with solar energy, energy-saving lighting, rainwater recovery systems, waste reduction and recycling programs, energy-efficient appliances and sustainable building materials...I'm sure these are good things, and environmentalists at the UN will be very pleased with their ambassador because nothing says 'conservation' quite like 22,000 square feet, a huge swimming pool, and six car garage built for a family of three.
I will never cast stones upon the privilege and excess brought on by honest success. Still, I have to wonder what it is about seemingly normal dudes who get wealthy and think they need a wine cellar in their home? Peasant farmers in Calabria have wine cellars. Wine storage does not impress me.
I'd rather install a brewery.
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By all means, enjoy the money you've earned cheating at football/being an attractive clothes hanger...
But yeah, please don't tell me your mansion is "green". Green is living in a building that already exists, not building a new one. Green is living in an apartment or condo (which you can still spend a lot of money doing, and be very comfortable) in a city, and not driving a car very much (or at all).
I dunno, Brian. Nothing says "green" to me like cutting down a forest and opening a quarry to obtain the materials for one's house. Those trees were probably polluting pretty badly, after all.
And hey, let's be real; nothing says "green" like flying across country a few times per week to be in one's "Green" home.
i'm sure he a has another green home near Boston, too.
I'm just saying, I live green. Tom Brady doesn't.
And I have a brewery in my kitchen. :)
Now, I'm sure that Tom and Gisele have bought lotsa carbon credits. Lots and lots of carbon credits.
Mr D: tom doesnt buy carbon credits. he just video tapes other people buying them.
Brian: in yer kitchen? yeah, yer as cool i wanna be.
I want a brewery AND a wine cellar in the basement. Make that the sub-basement. The one below the squash court. And just above the hydroponic pot farm...
squash doesnt keep well enough to justify its own court, but i got family in Chicago that re-fashioned part of their basement for curing meats.
tom doesnt buy carbon credits. he just video tapes other people buying them.
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Brian, I hate to be serious here, but I can see living in a newer home instead of an old one simply because by the time you fix up some old homes to be halfway as efficient as a newer one, you've just put as much time and energy as you would have to build new.
And I see you're brewing ales, unless you're REALLY keeping that kitchen cold!
Bah, my Papa had a wine cellar AND a brewery AND a meat hanging area-- it was "the pump house."
Bike Bubba- you're quite right, and it's not outrageous to have 20k feet and a six car garage... if you've got a bunch of folks living there.
Assume three couples with kids, further assume that there's only one kitchen and laundry room and game room and movie room, and there's lots of room for several families to live very efficiently.
Suddenly, I'm picturing Charley's family from the Wonka movie. (The real one, not the one with the pirate.)
Obviously, not *every* extant building is preferable to new construction. But I think there is an ample supply of housing in the Bundys' market that didn't require clearing new land, cutting new timber for lumber, manufacturing new materials, etc., etc.
Again...I think they should do whatever the hell they want with their money. Just don't try to tell me how green it all is.
I leave the lagering to the Germans and the Czechs.
So painting your house green doesn't make it environmentally sound? I wish you'd told me that earlier, Brian. :^)
For fun (guilty; I'm an engineer) I've calculated some heat flows for old and new homes, and if you're in a cold climate, the big problems with old homes are the attic and the basement--two places that, due to the structure of them, it's hard to insulate. Windows and lack of wall insulation are pretty easy to fix, but it's hard to put 12 inches of insulation in a space only six inches thick.
heat rises. i'd think all that stuff most people store in the basement would be insulation enough.
my last apartment was a townhouse type structure... garage below, living space at ground level and two bedrooms upstairs.
i shut the vents upstairs in the winter and only heated the bottom, in the summer i reversed them for the a/c.
Gino; think the hold habit of making your basement of solid masonry, and the top 3-4 feet of ground freezing solid. It can be a major heat loss.
People criticize them, but much better to build an eco-friendly mansion than a non-eco mansion. With wealthy people spending money on such eco-friendly things, the technology should improve, cost should come down, and such innovation should spread to everyone's homes.
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