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Empowering change: clean energy solutions to climate change
| Author | FOE Australia, ACF |
| Date | 2007 |
| Classification | 4.22.0.00/14 (AUSTRALIA - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
being energy smart The cheapest and quickest way to reduce our greenhouse emissions is by being smarter and more efficient with the way we consume our energy. Energy savings involves improving industrial processes and the ways we use power to ensure that the least amount of energy is lost. Its like putting a patch on the hole in the fuel tank rather than pouring in ever more fuel. Energy savings also mean the development and use of more efficient appliances and the smarter design or retro-fitting of buildings to make the most of natural light and climate to reduce or eliminate the need for artificial heating and cooling. The capture and reuse of waste as fuel is also an important step towards greater energy savings or efficiency. In the home, saving energy is as simple as adopting more efficient hot water systems like gas-boosted solar or simply turning off electrical appliances that are on standby - up to 10% of electricity used in Australian houses is used to keep appliances on standby. Using energy smartly reduces the amount of energy we need and reduces greenhouse pollution. It also saves money. One American study found every dollar invested in energy efficiency is seven times more effective at reducing greenhouse pollution than money spent on nuclear power. The Australian Ministerial Council on Energy found currently existing efficiency measures could cut energy use in the manufacturing, residential and commercial sectors - where we live and work - by up to 30%. And these efficiency measures would pay for themselves in just four years! Being energy smart is a quick, cheap and clean way to make a real difference on climate change. Saving power helps buy the time needed to save the planet.
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