<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Reuben--<div><br></div><div>Amen!</div><div><br></div><div>May I add, Myth No. 6, Computer modeling during building design accurately predicts actual energy reductions and performance of the constructed building, and no monitoring or feedback is necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Far more interesting (and relevant) lists could be drawn up. <br><br>The ones you linked to strike me as mostly esoteric/wonky and in some cases irrelevant or mistaken. The ones I'm interested in have much broader significance when it comes to energy consumption/reduction, popular understanding of the issue, and potential impact. <br>
A few below just off the top of my head in no particular order:<br><br>Myth #1 energy efficiency programs lead to reductions in energy consumption that are usefully invoked in relation to climate change policy goals<br><br>
Myth #2 subsidies for fossil fuel burning technologies (natural gas furnaces, hybrid cars, etc.) are cost effective climate change (or energy reduction) strategies<br><br>Myth #3 most residential energy consumption in a given town/climate zone/block varies only slightly about the mean; in other words there is some level of <u><i>normal </i></u>energy consumption, and mine is probably pretty close to that.<br>
<br>Myth #4 electrification of technologies or subsystems hitherto powered by fossil fuels directly (cars, houses, etc.) will yield climate dividends.<br><br>Myth #5 the experts will figure this stuff out for us and will tell us what we need to do/buy to make it right again (not saying that the public necessarily believes this as much as energy experts have too often framed the issue that way)<br>
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