The Bottomless Well
by Peter W Huber and Mark P Mills
This book points out that the cheaper energy gets the more we use. Electric light is now ludicrously cheap compared with candlelight in the days of Jane Austen and the result is that I’ve got ten bulbs on in this room on a bright day. So, if we conserve energy through insulating our houses, then we burn more.
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