River in Alaska. In January 1999, the Snyder’s accidentally ran out of heating oil. But despite a 30°F temp, they didn’t discover the absence of fuel or feel a heat loss until they ran out of hot water, several days later.

• In the 1980s, Steve and Linda Price built their 34-foot diameter, 1,600 square foot, two-level Dome home at 4,800-foot About every day the suppliers for Dome builders get email, snail mail and phone calls from people who live or work in Monolithic Domes telling them about the low energy consumption and low energy costs they’re experiencing
  
  
• Ray Parsons and Nancy Jensen built a home of three interconnected Domes in south of Tucson and near Amado, Arizona, where winter temperatures drop to freezing. Unheated, their domes can maintain an average interior temperature of 66°F for several days.
  
  
• Chuck and Louise Snyder have 3,000 square feet of living area in their Dome home overlooking the Kasilof elevation in southeastern Idaho, which has cold winters. In 1987, the Prices’ energy supplier, Utah Power and Light Company, amazed by their low energy consumption, installed a separate meter in the Price home just to measure kilowatts used for heat. During that first year, their total cost for heat was $99! The following year, it was $115.
  
  
• Trinity Christian Center’s Dome church in Soldotna, Alaska encompasses 8,000 square feet. In 1999, Pastor Ray Ansel reported that their “natural gas heating averaged $72 per month. Heating a traditional building of similar size would cost $1,000 or more per month. We’re paying less than one-tenth of that!”
  
  
• In 1996, the month of June brought record-breaking heat and drought conditions to central Texas. But Antonio Carducci told us that his electric bill for that month for his 3,100-square-foot Dome home was an unbelievably modest $24.96.
  
  
• Jeff and Susan Crandall’s dream home is a 50-foot diameter Dome with 1,964 square feet on its main floor and 650 square feet in its loft. Located in Menan, Idaho, their dome requires no air conditioning and only 10,000 watts of electricity for heating.