Arragonis -- You're back!
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Go on then, how do you do that whilst being here - with your PC, internet and so on ?
Do you go off grid or not ?
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I can't quote and respond to all that. Instead of a yurt, I live in a 35' R-license park model aluminium trailer. It cost me US$900. I consume hydro-electric power that costs me 5¢/KWHr. I bicycle the 2 blocks to a discount 'little-lots' grocery store.
I don't begrudge people their kids. Dogs (=~SUV environmental impact) and cats (~=compact car) frustrate me though. Especially cats; they leave muddy footprint trails up to the top of my car and back down, because in their tiny little brain they are asserting dominance over it. They think "people like it so I will go up and kiss is with my b*tthole". And don't get me started on
taxoplasma gondii.
My frustration is that R.B.Fuller put the solutions to all our problems on the shelf, so we could take them down when we needed them; and we didn't.
He was big on 'metaphysically engendered materials'. That not just plastics; see buckminsterfullerenes, quantum dots, quantum wells, invisibility cloaks, &etc. If you push you heating/cooling needs down to the molecular level of the surface of your window glazing, those nuclear reactors can enjoy a well-earned retirement, de-commissioning (where all the $Profit$ goes away) and *burial*.
My 1984 Mac used 15 watts, less than a night-light. Google "
Eben Moglen Freedom Box"; actually, I just did that for you.