Get Your Hot Rocks Off: SMU Prof Has Found a Way to Get Texas Off the Grid

• Another very effective way of cooling a home is to raise it off the ground. Ventilation blowing around 4 side of a 6 sided cube can drastically drop the temperature inside it. Witnessed this firsthand on several occasions, including a sheet metal and lumber Japanese Style teahouse in the Texas summer that, somehow, managed to be quite comfortable inside.

• I wish we'd use the earth for cooling and warming our homes. Cause if you had a dugout, you wouldn't hardly need air conditioning. These would be quite tornado proof and greener in so many ways. Sadly, you snicker at my soiled typed suggestion. Got my toe sucked for the first time on the back porch of one cool dugout home in college that a professor had built.

• I'm no scientist, but what affect would the "freezing" of the molten, liquid core of the earth have? Oh, I'm sure we'd not be using much of that heat at all to begin with, but our relationbship with energy seems to be akin to crack junkies and the needle. We get the whole earth hooked on this "free" "unlimited" supply of energy and then our internal dynamo freezes up, our magnetosphere disappears and the world becomes a barren, radiation blasted rock like the other planets with solid cores. Oh, sure, if the process is occurring naturally, it would be a race to see whether it froze before the sun explodes, but why do we got to go dicking around with it now? I'm sure T Boone Pickens will start selling this energy next year. What does he care, he'll be dead soon and why not sell off our natural resources for his benefit today? Again, not a scientist, just thinking out loud.

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