Division of Environmental Threats & Hazards
Notice BIC-ETH-0104
Status: Filed
| Resource | Anger, household-generated |
| Form | Continuous, low-grade. Self-renewing. |
| Application | Thermal. Some documented use in food preparation and ambient lighting tone. |
| Supply | Reliable. The Bureau has not yet observed a depleted source. |
1. Finding
In a measurable class of household, the Bureau has observed ambient anger reaching and sustaining levels sufficient to displace conventional climate and energy systems. The class is characterized by a steady volume of small grievances, raised individually, never resolved, regenerating from each other. The residents do not describe their household this way. The Bureau notes the description anyway.
In these households, the heating costs are lower than expected. The temperature of the home is not. The discrepancy is attributable to a non-mechanical thermal source operating continuously within the residence.
The source is the residents.
2. Documented applications
2.1 Climate. The household maintains a temperature inconsistent with its boiler activity. Visiting parties have noted the warmth without identifying its source.
2.2 Food preparation. Meals reach acceptable temperatures during preparation phases that do not involve the stovetop. The cooking medium has not been identified. Residents have been unable to explain the mechanism but have not contested the result.
2.3 Ambient acoustics. A low-grade hum is detectable throughout the residence. It does not correspond to any measurable appliance. It diminishes briefly when a third party enters and resumes when the third party leaves.
2.4 Tonal lighting. Reviewing parties have, in several cases, described the household as visually warmer than its bulb wattage would suggest.
3. Supply analysis
The Bureau has reviewed candidate scarcity scenarios and has found none. Anger, in this household-generated form, is not consumed by use. It is regenerated by the conditions that produced it, which are the conditions of the household and have not been altered by the consumption. Each application of anger to a household function appears to produce, as a byproduct, the next opportunity to be angry.
The Bureau notes that this differs from conventional renewable resources, which require a regenerating input from outside the system. Household anger has been observed to regenerate from inputs entirely internal to the residence, including silence, the way a door was closed, and what was not said at dinner.
4. Determination
The Bureau classifies these households as energy-positive. The classification is technical and does not constitute an endorsement of the operating arrangement.
No intervention is recommended. The residents have not requested assistance. The Bureau notes that the residents are unlikely to characterize the situation in the terms used in this filing, and that the filing is not for them.