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10 Buildings and Industry
Pages 77-82

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... "Conservation must remain an important part of that solution." Samuel Bodman made a similar point, "We all must actively promote enhanced energy efficiency wherever we can -- in our homes, our vehicles, our offices, and across all industries. Because the truth is, the largest source of immediately available, ‘new' energy is the energy we waste every day." The needed steps are straightforward, said Bodman: insulating homes and other buildings, choosing energy-efficient appliances and compact fluorescent bulbs, considering a fuel-efficient vehicle or taking public transportation, and participating in an energy assessment program.
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From page 78...
... Cali fornia has a temperate climate, which makes heating and cooling buildings less expensive. Yet California codes call for extensive building insulation, which 800 nuclear energy 700 600 500 Billion kWh/yr 400 conventional hydro 300 Energy Saved w/ Refrigerator Stds 100 million 1 kW 200 = 80 power plants PV systems of 500 MW each renewables 100 0 Figure 10-1.eps FIGURE 10.1  The amount of energy saved by efficiency standards for refrigerators compared to several other sources of supply in the United States.
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From page 79...
... ." The solution, according to Chu, is "to write your Congress people." Finally, Chu lauded the Top Runner program in Japan, which he called "an Energy Star labeling program on steroids." The program identifies the most efficient product in a variety of categories and then uses the performance of this "top runner" model to set a target for all manufacturers to achieve within the next 4 to 8 years. "You don't really need an elaborate appliance standard bureaucracy," Chu said.
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From page 80...
... The building saves 99 percent of space and water heating energy and 90 percent of home electricity, and when the house was built in 1983 the additional construction costs paid for themselves in 10 months. Other projects have demonstrated similar results in extremely hot climates, Lovins said.
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From page 81...
... , uses about 1 percent the normal space- and water-heating energy and 10 percent the normal electricity, with a 10-month bitmap images low resolution payback in 1983. It has produced 28 indoor banana crops (right)
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From page 82...
... "In the poorest part of the developing world, quite modest things can have a profound impact." FIGURE 10.3  A cookstove designed in Berkeley, California, and manufactured in the Sudan avoids 10 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over its 5-year life. SOURCE: Roy Kaltschmidt, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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