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And so he mated this old-fashioned skeleton to modern mitochondria: a solar space-heating system, with a two-and-a-half-foot sand bed that stores warmth beneath the floor.

From New York Times • Jul. 19, 2012

And seventy per cent of the space-heating is electric, now.

From Day of the Moron by Piper, H. Beam