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Did you know that by simply (I say “simply” tentatively) building a house inside a hill you can completely do without central heating? In fact, you’d be trying to keep the house cool! The mounds of soil and earth above your subterranean roof would provide completely unmatchable insulation. If the house heated up by a single degree - for instance if you breathed - the heat would be trapped inside your four walls. Within your hill you are snug and warm. But make sure there’s plenty of aereation built in too - or you’ll be snug and warm and breathless - the trick is to have tons of cute windows popping out of your hillside.

The problem is of course that it would cost many times more than a lifetime’s worth of central heating to have your house built inside a hill. But if only we humans had cottoned on to this one from the beginning, not only would we be wasting less energy resources, and not only would we be living in luscious countryside, but J R R Tolkien would have written an epic trilogy about little humans that lived in odd rectangular concrete boxes packed tightly together in “cities”! How weird.

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