Japan Squeezes to Get the Most of Costly Fuel <byline>By JAMES BROOKE Japan is urging citizens to replace their appliances and buy hybrid vehicles, as part of an effort to save energy.
... In Germany, where heating accounts for the largest share of home energy use, a new energy saving law has as its standard the "seven-liter house," designed to use just seven liters of oil to heat one square meter for a year, about one-third the amount consumed by a house built in 1973, before the first oil price shock. Three-liter houses - even one-liter designs - are now being built. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/04/business/worldbusiness/04energy.html?th&emc=th _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
