[AT] OT Heating with wood

Easley, Greg EasleyG at health.missouri.edu
Fri Sep 30 06:02:54 PDT 2005


Tear down a $250K house because it's hard to heat?  That's insane.
I can cut firewood for less than $20/cord.

>I think some list members have just the tool to solve your problem.
Though 
>I'm not going to touch any arguments of which type of bulldozer you
need.
>
>Seriously, at those prices you should be thinking hard about tearing
down and re-building, or just moving to a >modern house.
>
>There is a rich person up here in MN who's year (not month!) heating
and 
>cooling bill was under $100 for his manson.   Now he is CEO of a SIP 
>(Structural insulated panel) company, and he put in extra money for a
ground source heat pump, and specified the >best windows, all of which
might not be 
>worth it for you.   Something to think about though everytime that bill

>comes.   I wonder what he pays now, this was 5 years ago, but electric
hasn't 
>gone up too much so far.
>




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