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Wasting our watts : article in TIME mag

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3:45 pm
2010/08/06


Francois

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"Wasting our watts. We don't need new drilling or new power plants. We need to get efficient"

I advise you to read this paper about America's Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency 

"A lot of simple answers are just sitting around waiting for us to execute". Tom Reddoch, Electric Power Research Institute – EPRI.

 This article is giving a good overview of the American situation: the stake is to get "the miracle juice" of what is called "energy efficiency" …. Two basic ways for that: using more efficient machinery & using machinery more efficiently.

Jacques Schonek


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3:46 pm
2010/08/06


Sinnadurai Sripadmanaban

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saving watts cannot be achieved by campaign or propaganda but only by legislation penalising over consumption.For each category of building(home,shop,office etc)maximum kwh/m2 should be defined first.

3:46 pm
2010/08/06


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Energy efficiency is important, but efficiency won't solve our growing energy needs. Nuclear power plants will.

3:41 am
2010/08/09


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regardless what kind of power plant is needed (either nuclear or anything else), I agree with salvia, that energy efficiency is important, but will not be enough to supply our needs.

 

understanding from few articles that I read, that our energy demand will doubled in 2020, while as the energy efficiency that was proposed by some manufactured by today is only able to save energy by 20-30% max.

 

so yes, efficiency is greatly needed, but the answer of providing a safe and sufficient powerplant is also need to be implemented.

3:11 pm
2010/08/11


electricalexpert65

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Salvia Divinorum said:

Energy efficiency is important, but efficiency won't solve our growing energy needs. Nuclear power plants will.

 

I am sorry! You are wrong! "Energy Efficiency" will surely solve our problems. Keeping on adding generation capacity, without pating attention to energy savings is like filling a "leaking bucket".

2:00 pm
2010/08/12


Jacques Schonek

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There is probably not one single solution to the problem. See the interesting paper at the address below:

 

http://www.leonardo-energy.org…..y-planning
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