[Greenbuilding] heretical observation

[sanjay jain]

>This only works if you can find food which is cheaper per BTU than whatever you are heating with.
This assumes people only eat what they need!

>it takes about 10 BTUs of fossil fuel to make 1 BTU of food in the American agro-business system.

Not if you don't consume factory farmed meat, dairy and eggs. But I suppose that is the agro-business system. Grains & Soy come from the same system, but we wouldn't need so much if we didn't have the factory farm demands.

So, going back to Alan's heretical observation, yes we do have to address our expectation. But perhaps more importantly we have to find a way of address this economic system that promotes unnecessary consumption. 

~sanjay
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