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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: k.ramesh who wrote (3126)	2/9/2004 3:16:26 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

lol Friend of mine, who is not a vegetarian, would oftentimes admonish those he called the "vegetarian powerwagon" drivers thinking that there was hypocrisy in the two activities. There probably is, IMHO. Now that you mention Sweden, in places the heating system there incorporates a time of day cycle whereby during the night, the power company prices the "juice" at a lower cost and the consumer charges up what amounts to a thermal pile in their basements that stores the power during the "off-peak" hours to be released during the day during the high demand times (the power to the furnace is cut off at dawn and re-energized in the late evening hours). In this way, the power company designs its units for a level load and better efficiencies. Yes, I always look around and see all that wrapping paper headed to the landfills the day after Christmas. One of the larger energy users is refrigeration. A small improvement in the efficiencies of the compressor would be a boon. A few years back, there was an engineering team working on the use of sound pressure to create a non-mechanical compressor to be used in the refrigeration and air conditioning business. Another local firm was working on a microwave clothes dryer. Time of day pricing by the electric utilities would also be an incentive for conservation as mentioned above. Doing with less is a winner as well. You are familiar with Amory Lovins? ccnr.org len