Energy Efficiency - The Unpopular Solution that Simply Works
Read a brief but to-the-point article by Marianne Lavelle @ US News on energy efficiency. Her point is simple but absolutely true - energy efficiency simply works, but no one is willing to accept it can make a huge different and hence take the pain of implementing efficiency measures, instead looking forward to silver bullets that have not happened in a long, long time (though she talks only about the US, it is quite valid, in differing degrees for the entire world)
Some interesting quotes:
"National laboratory researchers showed definitively, for example, that if ductwork is constructed so that it's inside the "envelope" of a house—the living space instead of the attic or crawl space—the homeowner can save a quarter to a third on air conditioning or heating costs. And we all could save energy.
Now that's a research breakthrough, in a way, and one we have the technology to implement today. But it isn't being done, except by builders who are devoted to "green" construction. As the home builders association explains in my story, the industry would view any mandate as a burden."
In the words of a scientist who had been working on the energy efficiency domain: " "To me, that's the story," he says. "We've been doing these scenarios and potentials for 35 years. The question is why are we still doing it?" Schipper has come to believe that the battle is ideological: "There is a fundamentally deep and disturbing opposition to the notion that things can change," he says."
Read the full article here
Some interesting quotes:
"National laboratory researchers showed definitively, for example, that if ductwork is constructed so that it's inside the "envelope" of a house—the living space instead of the attic or crawl space—the homeowner can save a quarter to a third on air conditioning or heating costs. And we all could save energy.
Now that's a research breakthrough, in a way, and one we have the technology to implement today. But it isn't being done, except by builders who are devoted to "green" construction. As the home builders association explains in my story, the industry would view any mandate as a burden."
In the words of a scientist who had been working on the energy efficiency domain: " "To me, that's the story," he says. "We've been doing these scenarios and potentials for 35 years. The question is why are we still doing it?" Schipper has come to believe that the battle is ideological: "There is a fundamentally deep and disturbing opposition to the notion that things can change," he says."
Read the full article here
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