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1,500,000-2,000,000 calories of Energy makes window glass for 1 Tiny House. "0 for salvaged windows." Walk 10 mi=1,500 cal.

When you add savings, seek less carbon burned to create glass, hardware, transport trees, 95% salvaged parts & human-energy=free. CHATGPT agrees w/ Mii!

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May 17, 2023
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You would need to walk 15,000 miles to burn up 2,000,000 calories, just enough to create 200 sf of glass for an average number of windows in a Tiny House on Wheels built in the last ten years. Is that Carbon or Earth-Friendly? Obsolete in 7-10 years, windows get trashed with RV. Compared to a house that lasts for a century?

So I asked a more in-depth question and reprimanded ChatGpt for being too simple. It apologized, to my surprise. From Walden Pond with the vultures resting upon the Ship of Salvaged Dreams, I pondered what ChatBot would have to say about the way I think of the savings that come from the Pure Salvage Living Renaissance in building tiny homes and villages from salvage instead of new building products. Almost as hard as the industry to prod into giving honest answers, here is the second round of results from the smartest computer programs figuring out what humans can not do so easily, it appears.

Energy is way too cheap, so we waste it like we do water until the
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