Re: More half-baked social planning ideas

[Bill Stewart]

>>Another general cause is that most of the current houses are built
>>stupid.  In the 1940's and 1950's houses were built that were quite
>>habitable without constant airconditioning.  They had basement

My condo is quite habitable without air conditioning.
It's got an air conditioner on the lower floor we've never turned on
(stupid location - if it were in the upstairs bedroom we'd use it
a couple nights a year.)   High ceilings.  Electric heat.
I'm spending far more to heat the place in a Silicon Valley winter,
with temperatures seldom below 10C and almost never below 5C,
than I ever spent in New Jersey, where they have real winters
(not real snowy winters, but below freezing for a few months.)
It was built back in the 70s, when we should have stopped pretending
that electricity was too cheap to meter.

                                Thanks! 
                                        Bill
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