Really sketchy details on this new green community.  partly because these energy issues are so technically complex.  But dollar savings from green energy and payback is understandable.  Give consumers the cost, that they understand.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/27/111840/663#7

All the energy data seems to be missing?  Or am I not finding the link.

Kwh from solar, total kwh used, total kwh equivalent storage in home heating/cooling loads, total savings from geo heat exchange/heat pump heating and circulation cooling, total solar heat captured for domestic water heating and supplementary home heating.

Total enery costs and savings, payback period for the solar aspects, value of comparable normally built homes in the area, energy costs for those local homes.

The use of geo heat exchange heating/cooling (mis named geothermal, just as in ads here by a local heating contractor) is very encouraging though.  It is really taking off under the radar.  Politicians who have it, like duuhbya, don't even seem to understand why it should be incentivized.

Are all politicians technically illiterate?  It seems so.  Except maybe Gore?  It will be interesting to read his solutions book.  we'll see if he gets it right.

Unfortunenately Romm is heading in the wrong direction lately, touting cellulosic ethanol. The guy who exposed hydrogen fantasies at Gore's recent secret seminar to inform the book?  I think that was it.