That's exactly right, we don't need more electric power generation
(unless autos go electric), we need more efficient electrical usage.
Analyst wrote:
On 18 Aug 2005 at 3:17, Stan Zaske wrote:
A better idea is to ban all incandescent lights for compact
fluorescents which only use 1/4 the energy!
Now that you mention it, there was a study published by the Rocky Mountain Institute (http://www.rmi.org/) a while back, when the electric utility in Colorado had submitted plans
to build a new electric power generating plant, that showed that if the utility bought CF lights,and passed them out for free to all of their customers to replace all the incandescent
lights in their homes, it would save MORE electricity than the new plant they were planning on constructing would generate operating at full capacity, and save them the tens of
millions of dollars of the cost of the construction of the new plant.
Amazing.
Vince
