I have designed many LED light bulbs.energy efficiency contribute to economic growth
Sorry about the coal miners that don't have work.
I would like to discuss, how does energy efficiency contribute to economic growth. What can we do to improve the energy efficiency? Please share your views.
Simply put, increased efficiency = reduced cost of production = increased availability of investment capitol (economic growth).... how does energy efficiency contribute to economic growth. ...
I don't mean to sound glib, but in the most general sense, you can improve efficiency by using less energy to accomplish the same, or additional, task(s).... What can we do to improve the energy efficiency? ...
spec,
If you can produce a widget today, using less energy than yesterday, your cost of production is reduced. This allows for the production of more widgets per energy unit, resulting in either increased production (more profit) OR the same production with more capital available for some other use.
I.e., increased economic growth.
spec,
If you can produce a widget today, using less energy than yesterday, your cost of production is reduced. This allows for the production of more widgets per energy unit, resulting in either increased production (more profit) OR the same production with more capital available for some other use.
I.e., increased economic growth.
My #1 energy consumption in my life is heating my place and that could be equated to megawatt hours equivalents a month in the winter yet I pay near nothing for it.
On that we are in total agreement.... And the real agenda behind this energy efficiency comes from the man-made global warming charlatans. ...
Absolutely no need for apologies CBB. What you said is totally true. Energy efficiency is a very good thing as a principle in isolation.On that we are in total agreement.
I didn't immediately pick up the"tongue in cheek" aspect of your post. I've been dealing with idiots (in real life) of late and I lost my mind for a bit.
My apologies...
That is a good point TCM. The cost of oil is a surprisingly small portion of the cost of petrol. Instead the costs are refining, distribution advertising and most of all the ridiculously high taxed imposed on petrol.I'm siding with Spec on this one. Energy input to make most anything is a trivial cost component in the overall production of the item.
My #1 energy consumption in my life is heating my place and that could be equated to megawatt hours equivalents a month in the winter yet I pay near nothing for it.
How much are you paying the boiler maintenance man and the person who keeps the boiler in combustible materials? p.s. I know you are doing all the necessary tasks yourself. Do you friends drop off their used oil or do you pick it up? That's about the only time consumption items I can quickly think of that has a "dollar value."
TCM, you say that you get free liquid fuel- a mixture of oils, diesel, petrol, and kerosine, I would guess. Have you ever thought about building a multi fuel electric generator?You know my boilers are my own design and maintained by me so they inherently are of very little long term operating cost outlay.
The new mini boiler I built this year was about 90% surplus metal and parts so maybe $100 to build it and about $300 more in setting it up at this point and I expect that once its going it will be like the old boiler and have a very low annual operating cost other than the typical half hour or so a week I spend on general maintenance cleaning out the flues and change out the paper towel based primary filter.
As for oil collection I do it for part of a day about 3 times a year netting me about 2000 - 3000 gallons a year now. So maybe 20 - 25 gallons of gas for the truck run around and transfer pump operation. Everything else is scrounged or long since paid for materials which I place near zero value on at this point.
Once everything with the new system is setup right and tuned properly I doubt that it will cost me much over $100 a year to heat my new work shed and old house combined. So given the present used oil consumption rate I am seeing it run at I expect it will burn about 1000 gallons a year or cost me about 10 cents a gallon or ~140K BTU or about $2.50 a MWH to heat my house.
Not too bad considering the same MWH on utility power would cost me over $120!
Along the same lines, there is a chap in our local who has a large house with two wood burning boilers. He just collects scrap/surplus wood for fuel with his truck.
So, not only does he get low cost heating and hot water, but he also provides a free service.
TCM, you say that you get free liquid fuel- a mixture of oils, diesel, petrol, and kerosine, I would guess. Have you ever thought about building a multi fuel electric generator?
Fascinating- keep us posted on the progress with that one.Yes I have thought about it and already experimented with it years ago.
I already have a old Petter AC1 single cylinder air cooled diesel I reworked the fuel system on some years ago to run on used oils that I experimented with on doing Co gen work but being small and air cooled it was not so great being I couldn't capture the engine heat with water and store it plus at ~ 6 HP and doing ~ 2 KW co gen it didn't make much to begin with.
I did however recently pick up a good older model I4 Mercedes industrial diesel, ~50 - 60 HP, I plan to redo the experiment with again someday being it should be able to produce enough excess heat to be useful and co-gen way more power than I need to the point of likely being minimally profitable as well.
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