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  • #10199
    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

    #11347

    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.

    #11348
    Anonymous
    Guest

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

    #11354
    x-tst
    Participant

    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.

    #11362
    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”.

    #11368
    admin
    Keymaster

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

     

    http://www.leonardo-energy.org/integrated-energy-planning

    #12925

    I don’t agree with you. We need more plants, because our demand is rising day by day.

    #13040
    Anonymous
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