Good evening, friends. Tonight I have a few loosely-knit stories.sootA couple years ago, my house was heated by a condensing gas boiler. It was awful from both an environmental and a geopolitical perspective: environmental, as I would emit somewhere around 2.5 tons of CO2 equivalent per year to heat my home, which compares poorly to the target total CO2e emissions of 2 tons per year per person; and geopolitical, because although France gets 40% of its gas from Norway, with whom we have no beef, all the rest is a problem in some way. (Algeria, 10%, is the least of my worries; the 20% for Russia and the US respectively are the most, followed by 10% for the Gulf states.)Still, natural gas is better than fuel oil, which we had at my former rental house. It is a lamentably visceral experience to call up the fuel provider and say, yes, s’il vous plaît, can you drive a diesel-powered tanker truck out to my house, unroll the hose, and pour out 1500 liters of toxic fuel oil into a tank under…
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