GREEN EFFICIENCY

Green Efficiency

Our power needs will always require changing technologies and long-range thinking, but at the same time we must develop new strategies to save energy, helping us to move toward energy sustainability.  The supply and demand sides of our energy equation are both keys to our future electrical needs.  Technological development in the following areas are ongoing and essential to saving energy and gaining effectivity:

• Batteries for electric autos

• Insulation for heat and cold loss, as well as circuit conductors

• Transmission line energy loss

• High efficiency appliances

• Basic conservation efforts

• Electrical grid changes to accommodate a mixed-fuel economy

• Microwave beam transmission (which would allow solar energy captured by Satellites or even the moon’s surface, to be transmitted to receivers on the earth)

Energy efficiency is one of the two “twin pillars” of sustainable energy policy (remember, renewable energy is the other).  Both must continue in their development in order to stabilize and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  No power source is entirely pollution-free, or for that matter impact-free.  “When something gets better, something gets worse”.  Our job is to cultivate technologies that can produce energy as efficiently as possible, as pollution-free as possible, all the while finding ways to conserve what we do generate.