# Green McMansions - good or bad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-mcmansions-good-or-bad/442703 "2008-03-25T19:31:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-mcmansions-good-or-bad/442703/21 "2008-03-26T19:38:14Z")
[QUOTE=Anne Neville] Huh. I lived in the Bay Area, in apartments that under this system would be classed as flats, for six years, and I _never_ heard them referred to as flats- they were always called apartments. I could see a management company for an apartment complex calling the units flats, though. British English does have a certain cachet in the US, and I could see an apartment management company calling their units flats to make them sound more British and therefore classier. I learned something here. I thought geothermal heating was heating using natural hot springs and things like that, so it could only be done in places like Iceland and Hawaii. [/QUOTE] Oh no! Not at all. It uses the heat generated by the tepid temperature of the earth itself. Check out the link a couple posts up in my post…Those describe the process. It’s ingenius really, and not really cost prohibative. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-mcmansions-good-or-bad/442703/22 "2008-03-26T20:33:12Z")
Yeah, I thought only Mission hipsters lived in flats. ( :rolleyes: 😛 ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-mcmansions-good-or-bad/442703.md?page=1)