If you are mainly interested in reducing your fuel bills the first thing is to install draught proofing as terms of bang for your bucks this is the single biggest difference you can make, then go for loft insulation, then double or triple glazing ideally with argon or krypton gas in the void. After that cavity wall insulation and then we get into trickier arithmetic. I believe that photo-voltaic cells are more cost effective than the older solar panels but it may be touch and go whether these are worthwhile above a certain latitude, air or ground source heat pumps may be more cost effective and windmills may be worth thinking about in terms of selling the power you generate on to the the grid.
If you are going to spend serious money it would worth paying for professional advice rather than risk making an expensive boo-boo.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.