RFF Feature: Policy Insights for Narrowing the Energy Efficiency Gap
A new RFF discussion paper explores the “energy efficiency gap” and what it means for policy by bringing in the latest insights from behavioral economics.
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The issue is not energy efficiency, For human survival on Earth we have to MAKE THE SUN OUR SOLE ENERGY SOURCE as that will be clean energy.. If RFF starts talking about getting action going on that as I have outlined to Mr. Sharp in several e-mails and gotten posted in comments here and on UCSUSA’s “The Equation” several times recently, then we could have no need for fracking, nuclear plants and their messes. and absurd biofuels programs taking food water, land and fertilizer from growing food.
The main action for using the sun’s energy is making hydrogen the clean fuel, and a very potent catalyst for that by splitting water got major report in Science, Dec. 7, 2012,pgs. 1321-4. The second action to get the sun’s energy to work more for us is in making our massive evermounting messes of biowastes including sewage solids into the KEY RESOURCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY. Biowastes are an already harvested forever available biofuel supply line. With an expanding world population, we have to be growing food not biofuels, no one recognizes that WE HAVE BIOFUELS AT HAND BY PYROLYSIS OF COLLECTED BIOWASTES.
The third action is to revive the CCC tree planting program of Roosevelt so that our CO2 overload can be reduced by sun light photosynthesis. This would include planting trees especially in the Pacific NW where millions of fir trees are dying due to bark beetles to leave bare ground that may see serious erosion problems preventing new natural reseeding of trees. The cut out dead trees can be pyrolyzed to get charcoal and expelled mix of organic chemicals. In time the CCC program would have enough fully grown trees that a controlled harvesting program could send trees to be pyrolyzed regularily to get fuel and charcaol. That charcoal could be used to smelt iron ore eliminating the messes of soft coal mining seem in Appalachia. And also reduce mercury emissions as the coking of soft coal is the major source of mercury emissions.
James. Singmaster, III, Ph.D. UCDavis, 1975, Environmental Chemist, Ret.