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  • From: "Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Obama - Energy- Prosperity
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:02:59 -0600

It's obviously possible to live in the dessert without ac, but maybe
not so much in the typical tract ranch house. I worked with a man once
who had done extensive consulting work in Iran (this was a couple of
decades ago), and he described the old government buildings with their
thick walls and ancient system of ventilation as being nearly chilly
in the summer.

I daresay that your typical sealed window high rise would be a death
trap -- a big oven.

On 1/17/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
> Or perhaps you folks need to start using less A/C. The assumption that




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