For Energy Efficiency

This act selected some dozen key residential appliances and proposed industry-tvide voluntary targets for energy efficiency improvement. If industry could not meet these volnntary targets, which averaged a 20 percent reduction in energy use compared to then-current figures, mandatory standards wonld be estab-... 

The average American home is responsible for more annual pollution than the average car. This often comes as a surprise because the pollution attributed to homes is produced miles away at a power plant or out-of-sight from roof exhaust flues. However, eveiy time someone flips a switch, activates the air conditioning, or takes a shower, pollution is being produced. There will be growing appreciation for energy efficient homes that help prevent pollution. 

Project delineates between cleaner new gas technologies and polluting old natural gas technologies—and reserves a third cleanest category for energy efficiency/conservation, solar, wind, and geothermal (but not hydro or biomass). 

In the United States various studies have assessed the potential for energy efficiency improvement in industi y. One study has assessed the technologies for various sectors and found potential economic energy savings of 7 to 13 percent over the busitiess-as-usual trends (Brown et al., 1998) between 1990 and 2010. Technologies like the ones described above (see Table 2) are important in achieving these potentials. 

De Beer, J. Worrell, E. and Blok, K. (1998). Future Technologies for Energy Efficient Iron and Steel Making. Annual Review of Energy 3nd the Environment 23 123-205. 

The energy efficiency of transit per passenger distance traveled depends both on its usage rate (person travel per vehicle travel) and its fuel efficiency (fuel consumption per vehicle travel). The transit vehicles with the greatest potential for energy efficiency gains... 

Design for energy efficiency. Energy requirements for chemical processes should be minimized, with reactions carried out at room temperature if possible. 

Toepfl, S., Mathys, A., Heinz, V., and Knorr, D. (2006). Review Potential of high hydrostatic pressure and pulsed electric fields for energy efficient and environmentally friendly food processing. Food Rev. Int. 22, 405-423. 

Russia, a developed country, is part of the Annex 1 bloc of countries committed to cutting emissions under the protocol. But its economy has shrunk so drastically since 1990 that it cannot afford to bum the fuel that would produce the emissions Kyoto entitles it to. Its emissions have fallen by almost 40% in a decade. So it favours emissions trading, selling its unused entitlement to developed countries wanting to emit more than the protocol allows them. Russia will ratify Kyoto, because it recognises it as a way of earning desperately needed money. It plans to use the cash for energy efficiency projects. 

Design for Energy Efficiency Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts and should be minimized. If possible, synthetic methods should be conducted at ambient temperature and pressure. 

Hordeski, Michael F., New Technologies for Energy Efficiency, The Fairmont Press Lilburn, GA, 2003. 

In 1996 GM would launch the EV1. Almost every part of the EV1 is designed for energy efficiency. The steering wheel and seat frames are made of low-weight magnesium. The radio antenna is part of the roof... 

The European Commission s Action Plan for Energy Efficiency... 

For the first time, I have the impression that energy-efficiency potentials are being clearly recognised and adequately addressed by the Action Plan for Energy Efficiency of the European Commission (Commission of the European Communities, 2006). This is a policy programme that supports energy-policy objectives (low energy costs,... 

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