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- dusingaz, on 03/13/2009, -0/+58NEWS - old ass castle is not energy efficient.
- eeinw, on 03/13/2009, -0/+29You mean a 175 year old building isn't green by 21st century standards?! NO WAI!
- urbanarson, on 03/13/2009, -2/+20Who else is for removing the term "green" from everything all together. It's energy efficiency we are after. Efficient is already a word no need for another one to clog up the lexicon.
This isn't 1984 and there's no such thing as a New Speak dictionary, so stop creating new words to go on top of perfectly good ones.
Efficient > green - Heywoodj, on 03/13/2009, -0/+18It was built in 1703. How green can you make it? How much energy would you expend to make it efficient?
I'm not British but somehow I don't think knocking it down and starting over is an option. - EnergyEinstein, on 03/13/2009, -0/+12Where are the thermal imaging pictures??
- xmaschimp, on 03/12/2009, -2/+14How ironic that DECC -- their department for the environment and climate change -- is the 2nd most dirty building in London. Looks like the UK, like the US, has its work cut out for them in walking the talk...
- greggerm, on 03/13/2009, -0/+10BURIED - Like many others, who the hell expects a nearly two century old building to be remotely energy efficient?
- Sylenus, on 03/13/2009, -0/+9DUH, it's a palace and very old... WTF do you expect?
- blackopsfreak06, on 03/13/2009, -0/+7Wow. Exciting. What a find.
- robbiedo, on 03/13/2009, -0/+6They were thermal imaging MI6 Headquarters, and lived to tell about it?
Something very disappointing about that. - HurricaneDC, on 03/13/2009, -1/+6It was built ages ago, I don't think they cared about energy efficiency back then...
- reticulate, on 03/13/2009, -0/+4Bond was on leave. I'm sure he'll sort it out when it gets back.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3Just for comparison sake, Buckingham House, which is the core of the current Buckingham Palace, was built some 73 years before the USA declared independence.
ie, this energy inefficient building is older than most Diggers' country, is it really a surprise it's not that green? - kinseyincanada, on 03/13/2009, -0/+3its 175 years old, what the hell did you expect.
- blackopsfreak06, on 03/13/2009, -0/+3Yeah, can we really call this news?
- Dipsomaniac, on 03/13/2009, -0/+3The thing is 250 years old. I don't think it's surprising that it's not air-tight.
- Realnemesis, on 03/13/2009, -0/+3Some buildings and homes built today aren't even up to 21st Century standards either. Really don't expect a 200+ year old castle to be.
- PeteyUK, on 03/25/2009, -0/+2Exactly. Political correctness gone mad.
Get real people. It's not like they're gonna plant grass on the roof and add solar panels to every room and nor should they in some examples of historical architecture . - Chompy, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Damned pre-Victorian spendthrifts. You just know some eighteenth century contractor was all "let's install triple-pane gas-filled vinyl-framed windows and machine-blown hermetic insulation" and the Queen was all "off with his head!".
- Sylenus, on 03/13/2009, -1/+3I'm with you, we should focus on the misuse of "organic" instead. That one just pisses me off way more.
- blackopsfreak06, on 03/13/2009, -1/+3Of all the headlines I've seen today, this may be the most pointless. Is anyone actually surprised that this is true?
- serif69, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2I love efficient beans, especially when you stew them with some bacon fat until they start to fall apart.
- Chompy, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Indeed, they simply tossed a few more French and Irish on the fire when it got chilly.
- Ndiggnation, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2That's because the Queen actually likes Gin and Dubonnet.
- dsmx, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2It's not a castle it's a palace hence the name.
- bincoder, on 03/13/2009, -0/+2Good.
Original historic sites are to remain just that. Original.
And whats the problem anyway? Is GB suffering shortages of power and rolling blackouts or something?
Peeps who worry too much about being so called 'green' need a real job and a life.
That will give them something important to worry about. You know little things like liberty, privacy, civil rights. Wanna save power? How about riot until all the nanny cameras on every square inch of the country are removed.
To hell with green. You guys have a whole lot more at stake now than that. - immatellyouwhat, on 03/13/2009, -2/+4Do we have to whine about everything? OMG that's not green! everyone should drive a prius! No can live on the earth anymore without feeling guilty. I'm moving to Jupiter where anyone can eat moons.
- archiesteel, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1I know. That's the real news in this article, as far as I'm concerned.That's quite a bit of egg on their face.
- KilGil27, on 03/13/2009, -2/+3yea, who the hell made up this "green" word anyway
efficient vegetables taste much better anyway - MonkeyNews, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1It's not a castle, genius.
- partrow, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1It was never even painted. It is made of stone, and the only green on it are very small areas of moss on the North side.
- nerd05, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1"where," not "what"
- moose26, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1Seriously, this building is a historic landmark and it's going to be pretty hard to make it uber green. I am sure over time they can do some improvements to help it become a little greener like lightbulbs and maybe more efficient furnaces, but being what it is.. a huge part in human architectural and their countries history, it should not used in these comparisons as its so damn obvious. There will be old non green buildings if we wish to preserve parts of our history, just work on the other non historic buildings and green them up.
- arpad, on 03/13/2009, -0/+1Maybe Prince Charles, when he jetted across the Atlantic to tell the world how important it is to conserve energy, turned down the thermostat.
Naw. He's too important to be bothered with that sort of thing. His task is to demand that people who aren't as good as he is do what he can't be bothered to do. - Pother, on 03/13/2009, -1/+1Hey, lets make this article as "green" as the grass in the picture linked below... kill it, bury it, and cover it in grass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Harold_stone.JPG - capachino, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0to think, they could have saved millions of candles and burning logs all those years!
- thorstrongstone, on 03/13/2009, -1/+2***** Christ! It's not green? Whatever are we to do?
That's it, I'm drinking the Kool-Aid. Life is simply too scary to continue with. - mtg101, on 03/13/2009, -4/+4Prince Charles - I'm looking at you!
- Gndoab, on 03/13/2009, -1/+1cry me a river.
- ohreilly, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0I'm a *****. The above paragraph refers to Clarence House.
- icyfire111, on 03/13/2009, -2/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_imaging
- ohreilly, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0Who else is for banning the ability to refer to 1984 and anything related to it, when the subject has bugger all in any way to do with it.
Especially when it is automatically wheeled out whenever the UK does something that you don't like (not referring to you personally, it's a general trend on Digg) - ohreilly, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0I'd like to point out that ol' Charlie doesn't have anything to do with Buckingham Palace:
For nearly 50 years, from 1953 to 2002, it was home to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, but is now the official residence of The Prince of Wales, The Duchess of Cornwall, and the Princes William and Harry. It is open to visitors for approximately two months each summer.
For the less-endowed readers out there, Prince Charles is the current Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall. - Vanderkeif, on 03/13/2009, -0/+0OI LIZ!! CLOSE THE DAMN DOOR YOUR LETTIN ALL THE AC OUT.
- ivanov, on 03/13/2009, -1/+1We are not amused.
- inactive, on 03/13/2009, -2/+1He is a royal offcourse he doesn't practice before he preaches.
- borellus, on 03/13/2009, -5/+4Turn off those un-needed lights! Tut, tut!
- rg2589, on 03/13/2009, -3/+0they didnt even know what energy was 175 years ago..lol
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