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[Jordi Soucheiron]

I work in a startup specialized in energy monitoring. We've been analyzing
energy consumption for a few years already and we've realized that the mere
installation of a monitoring system helps to rationalize the consumption
and companies get a 10-20% savings because of that. Of course investing
more money (changing HVAC systems, illumination, etc) leads to obtaining
even better results. If a small percentage (10 %) of the consumption was
analyzed in such way the reduction in energy consumption would already be
huge (not just a few MWh every year), just imagine what would happen if
everyone did it.
The cheapest energy is the one that's not used.

2012/8/13 Cal. <peppecal at gmail.com>

> Yep. We like doing more and more things with the same amount of energy.
> But fact is we need more.
>
> Saving megawatts won't give us gigawatts. And costly fuel wont push
> research for renewable energy, but for cheaper fuel.
>
> We can have fuel from oil fields, we can have fuel from sugar; sugar is
> renewable, good; also contains carbon, bad. It's not about energy
> efficiency, when nearly every engine on earth is a combustion one.
>
> I'm not saying this is not a problem, just is not as simple as that.
> Il giorno 13/ago/2012 02:07, "Richard Stallman" <rms at gnu.org> ha scritto:
>
>     > -- people will arrange
>>     > to use less fuel of whatever kind.
>>
>>     That is suicidal.
>>
>>     Fuel is just energy,
>>
>> So many mistakes in so few words!
>>
>> Fuel to burn is only one kind of energy.  As fuel gets expensive,
>> people invest in other energy sources such as renewables.  This is why
>> it is ok if all kinds of fuel become more expensive.
>>
>> Meanwhile, there is tremendous opportunity for doing the same jobs
>> with less energy.  It just takes an investment in energy efficiency.
>> Amory Lovins has written extensively about how cheap it is to produce
>> lots of "negawatts" -- savings of energy due to increased efficiency.
>> As the cost of energy goes up, people will make these investments.
>>
>> Of course, government policies can facilitate or impede these changes.
>> Nonetheless, expensive fuel is an important motivating factor.
>>
>> Finally, we may need to stop doing some of the things we now do.  The
>> consequences of global heating will force many people to stop doing
>> things they now do.  It will force many to stop living.  Global
>> heating is damaging food production and swamping low-lying land.
>> The sacrifices to limit global heating may be painful but they will
>> be less painful than the consequences of global heating.
>>
>> --
>> Dr Richard Stallman
>> President, Free Software Foundation
>> 51 Franklin St
>> Boston MA 02110
>> USA
>> www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
>> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
>>   Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call
>>
>
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