Why do mammals have fur? Every bit of energy you use becomes WASTE HEAT. If you INSULATED your own house like mammals are naturally insulated, you wouldn’t NEED biofuels, just FOOD to eat. A rough calc : with a two foot thick layer of urethane foam insulation all around a 1500 sf house(R 168), a couch potato cranking out 1250 BTUH would keep the interior at 72 deg F with outside temp at 32 deg F. You are all looking thru the telescope at new energy sources, look instead at CONSERVATION; why ever do you need to heat the cold, dark night sky by pouring your own heat-money thru your own house windows/poorly insulated walls?
Didn’t you used to work for Mother Earth News?
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She says the good coming out of this MMGW hysteria is teaching folks how to conserve.(Lost Art) Our ancestors got us here by conserving and we need to do the same.
Remember: Conserve is part of Conservatism.
WHY do you FEEL the NEED to use CAPITALS all the TIME????
That amount of thermal insulation is pointless overkill if you don't control air infiltration. Assuming you can seal a house as airtight as a Thermos bottle, then health issues arise from the lack of fresh air and the increased concentration of trapped toxins such as biological expirations, bacteria, virues, materials outgassing, etc. The complexity and cost of a sealed air-filtered bioenvironment is beyond the reach of most people.