The new technology reduces the problems but I can see it is unsustainable. The energy experts debate earnestly over which form of fuel – petrol, diesel, coal, gas – pollutes the least and which acoustic insulation muffles the noise most. Our home becomes more crowded, polluted and clearly we will run out of fuel.

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