Higher efficiency standards are the best solution. If autos and appliances by law had to be energy misers, then everyone wins. If some people don't like that, tough, there just isn't enough to go around unless everyone uses less.
You may want the government controlling every aspect of your life. I'm still looking for one thing they have done right.
Ron Adventure is just bad planning." -- Roald Amundsen [ Parent ]
But more seriously, the issue of allowing my neighbour to 'choose' a path that may ruin both of us is why we may need regulation, just like building and fire and wiring regs...
Anyway, the talk is about the technology rather then if it should be enforced.
Rgds
Damon[ Parent ]
It's a matter of national security and personal survival.
There are minimum standards for energy efficiency for many household appliances. Refrigeration, lighting, space heating and cooling, clothes washers and dryers. The power company can also MAKE you install power factor correction equipment if you are a large enough business and want to connect to the grid.
We share resources because the world is too crowded to do otherwise. The rich can always thumb their nose at the poor (like Al Gore living in a mansion and using a private jet), but the rest of us need to learn to share.[ Parent ]
Google for 'Eskom' (the name of the SA electricity company) and 'power cut' and you'll find plenty of background.
Eskom was starved of funds for years by the government, and supplied with poor fuel as the side-effects of political concessions, then then, well, the lights started going out.
Huge price rises planned, and many of the features that I mention in my presentation.
