Not long ago, a friend of mine use the three-little pigs story in a blog post. Since, we all know the story, I will not repeat it, but do recall that the wolf blew over the first two little pigs homes and ate the pigs. The third pig made his home of bricks, thus the wolf could not blow it over. Later in the story the wolf tried to come down the chimney and he falls into boiling water instead of getting dinner.
In this story the Pig boils water to kill the Wolf in the choke point of the chimney, that takes energy, quite a bit of it. It takes a whole lot of energy to boil water. Now then, is this the true and efficient energy model of a prudent pig or is he an energy hog? You see, had the third pig used a solar collector to heat the water, bringing the water to boiling may have only taken a little extra energy rather than all the energy to bring the water from room temp to boiling.
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The pig waited until there was a crisis then used the most inefficient form of energy to boil the water in the chimney, he used wood, Natural gas is more efficient and you do not have to cut down the forest to do it either. I think we can show this as a bad example of energy use. There are easier ways to kill a wolf, and shouldn't that wolf have become dinner, why waste a perfectly good wolf.
Further the two pigs who did parish along with their houses offer another opportunity - recycle-able materials - Why waste those materials, as they might provide decent insulation material?
Those who proclaim to be environmentalists are often hypocrites, because they would have attacked the third pig for using brick, as brick takes energy to make, transport, requires mining of materials and lots of water to be used (most brick making), it is a messy process. The finished brick home is deadly in an earthquake which could have crushed the pig and his piglets at a future date, through the law of unintended consequences of a black swan event in an area not known for seismic disruptions.
So, the environmentalists and their movement would have sued and prevented the EIR for the pig to build the brick house in the first place, if the pig built it anyway then the government would have torn it down for the wolf. Thus, the pig would have been eaten along with his brothers. Consider this.
The Three Little Pigs Story - Wise Building Materials and Energy Efficiency Considered
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