[Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Reuben Deumling]

Corwyn's of course right on the money.
My point was a smaller one: even within the limited if ubiquitous framing
of energy efficiency, many of our key appliances of today do not win over
those made 70-75 years ago.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Corwyn <corwyn at midcoast.com> wrote:

> I think you are losing the definition of efficient here.
>
> However, the point is NOT to be as efficient as possible.  The point is
> that we need to live within our means.  For energy, that means that if we
> aren't using it sustainably, it doesn't matter how efficiently we are using
> the energy.  If it is not sustainable, we will run out, and doom our
> descendants to be without.
>
> Efficiency often makes things worse.  Case studies have shown that
> increasing efficiency of some machine sometimes INCREASES the total energy
> used by the aggregate of all of those machines.
>
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