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build better houses,

and in process lower your household energy need

BY INCREASING comfort.

BREEAM / Passive house.... In passive house in norway (alaska of europe) you can be 3 days without electricity(or gas or any other heating medium) and in coldest of cold days you do not need to put sweater on, because it is still comfortable, heat is not escaping as fast.

so there is deregulation of market and there is not educated customer + educated regulation which bankrupts your company if you build trash like they mostly build in USA. so it is not only energy, there are other regulation not in sync with reality/human nature.

and by lowering your household energy needs(by increasing comfort), higher ratio of renewables can be used cheaply or even onsite/roof.

and your energy requirement can be manipulated more in time i.e. you can heat house few degrees more few days in advance. after you see on tv that next few days will be cloudy/stormy/ hurricane/frost... or just make app do that for you

or you can heat your hot water at noon where electricity prices are almost 0$

so less effort providing energy for household is, more effort can be put into providing energy for business




exact thing which was directly responsible for snowmageddon...

build better houses, use saving in energy to buy more things. hard capitalism. but no that is bad. :)

socialism inside of a energy market is good for people raised in capitalism. makes no sense to me.

lowering households energy need 100% in instant is like providing 25% more energy generation for everything else.




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