The Wind-Energy Myth - The claims for this “green” source of energy wither in the Texas heat.

One of my Mom's earliest memories was of her father's farm in rural (at the time) New Jersey. He had no electricity, and used a windmill for pumping water up from his well into a cistern. He was always fretting about having enough potable water for the family and the few farm animals he kept.

When REA came in the first thing he did was tear down his windmill. He hated it that much, never being reliable. Sure, he had a monthly electric bill to pay, but never lacked for water again.

"Cooling can be contained aka closed loop systems with multiple enclosed cisterns etc for thorium units. I see your concerns yet most that use such are very old designs.

I think it can be done."

Thanks. I'm behind the times on nuclear energy but always glad to learn something. And thanks especially for info on thermal considerations for keeping houses cooler. That will be useful for afternoons during about one month of the year here but still useful. I'll incorporate it into the heating system (collectors covered around July to work more like coolers for the concrete slab if needed). We'll go with 6-inch walls instead of 4. Should be adequate insulation for up here.

And dual pane, laminated glass--dual, because three panes wouldn't give us enough extra R-factor against the predominant cold, and windows here aren't as large or low as windows in tropical areas except large enough for bedroom egress code (laminated, because of high winter winds, sometimes high drifts with ice chunks that blow from drifts, predators, inhibiting shatter from uninvited ingress, etc.). It'll cost us to have those shipped from the east coast, but the best windows for one's situation are worthwhile.

My general point in verbosity to all is that we have different situations between different regions of the country. I remember repeatedly flipping sweat-moistened pillows over in the night, where I grew up (way SSE of you) and trying to catch a few Zs in fire positions in tropical areas much later on. Thus, my current choice of cold, dry climate away from high heat, humidity and venomous bugs--even surrounded by an alpine ocean sparsely populated by bipartisan radical lefties.

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