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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is a contradiction here as Americans with ‘means’ tend to consume more not less. US energy consumption finally peaked in 2000 but that coincided with both loss of jobs and personal wealth (income/means). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Efficiency is tangible – defining sustainable usage is less so. US still consumes double the energy of the EU on a per capita and 20% of world energy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One of the paradoxes of how we look at efficiency in north America is that it requires consumption of ‘energy efficient’ products to be efficient. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The average US home size in 2009 was 2700 square feet (compared to 1400 in 1970) – how does one even begin to live within that box and live within some global concept of ‘means’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Reuben Deumling<br><b>Sent:</b> July-30-12 7:36 AM<br><b>To:</b> Green Building<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Corwyn's of course right on the money. <br>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Corwyn <<a href="mailto:corwyn@midcoast.com" target="_blank">corwyn@midcoast.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think you are losing the definition of efficient here.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>