All interesting stuff. Karatestu - it might be worth going on a course on straw bale so that the project was less DIY - perhaps before that contact the course tutor and outline your plan in some detail - if they say no it is a no - if they say yes it becomes a maybe. r3xj0hn570n - hopefully there ha...

r3xj0hn570n - interesting what you say about the heat pump that you installed - it is possible to get them to work in Scandanavia: https://cbey.yale.edu/our-stories/renewable-thermal-heating-lessons-from-scandinavia. If you have particular issues a ground source heat pump might be better and worth t...

If you are not fixed on bricks and mortar you might want to consider: Straw bale: https://cat.org.uk/events/building-with-straw-bales/ and https://cat.org.uk/worlds-first-miscanthus-bale-house/ (miscanthus grows on marginal land - https://www.terravesta.com/) Rammed earth: https://cat.org.uk/sustain...

Heat pumps are now very efficient - this chap designs bits of aero engines for Rolls Royce so has no axe to grind: https://livinglaudatosi.com/heat-pump-costing-technical-reference/. This is a discussion of a wider study: https://youtu.be/6am9NI6FZc8 - I can send a pdf summary. Do insulate to curren...

Hi Paul, I have a reasonable understanding of various strands of anarchism, the difference of that from anarchy, the limitations of anarchism, have published a book chapter discussing Murray Bookchin - top bloke, think that the new Logo might go down very well a small percentage of my friends but yo...

Hi Paul, I assume that you know the significance of that sort of 'A': https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... symbol.svg