We predict that this green building will bleed red ink
Just when you think the federal government can’t get any dumber, they top themselves. As they did in this story about the latest green scam in Portland, Oregon.
The New York Times has the green details:
… the federal government plans to plant its own bold garden directly above a downtown plaza. As part of a $133 million renovation, the General Services Administration is planning to cultivate “vegetated fins” that will grow more than 200 feet high on the western facade of the main federal building here, a vertical garden that changes with the seasons and nurtures plants that yield energy savings.
“They will bloom in the spring and summer when you want the shade, and then they will go away in the winter when you want to let the light in,” said Bob Peck, commissioner of public buildings for the G.S.A. “Don’t ask me how you get them irrigated.”
And we’d say irrigation is the least of the problems. Who prunes the growth and harvests the crops?
… Maybe the same folks who wash skyscraper windows, the architects say. Perhaps the exterior concrete panels removed in the renovation could be reused as salmon habitat in a nearby river.
The G.S.A. says the building will use 60 percent to 65 percent less energy than comparable buildings and estimates a savings of $280,000 annually in energy costs. Solar panels could provide up to 15 percent of the building’s power needs. The use of rainwater and low-flow plumbing fixtures will reduce potable water consumption by 68 percent. And energy for lighting will be halved.
Yes, perhaps the building will be pruned by the same folks who wash skyscraper windows. Perhaps.
Or since our agricultural products are all harvested by illegal aliens because that’s a job Americans supposedly won’t do, perhaps the government will have to bring in illegal Sherpa aliens to scale the sides of the building.
And what are the odds that the entire $280,000 in energy savings will be completely eaten up by the cost of harvesting. Not to mention the cost of legal settlements paid out to pedestrians who are injured by falling musk melons.
Your government in action, your tax dollars at work.
Source: New York Times
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Cheer up! It will only take 475 years to get this $133 million back!
Disgusting… I am all for healthier earth which leads to an healthier human race, but this is disgusting.