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You probably think about a city full of energy, a vibrant city full of green.
There should be a way of harnessing all of that intellectual and global
energy
into, and somehow through, the museum.
America's public
energy
conversation boils down to this question: Would you rather die of A) oil wars, or B) climate change, or C) nuclear holocaust, or D) all of the above?
What if we could make
energy
do our work without working our undoing?
Four-fifths of the world's
energy
still comes from burning each year four cubic miles of the rotted remains of primeval swamp goo.
But today's
energy
system is not just inefficient, it is also disconnected, aging, dirty and insecure.
Yet this cheaper
energy
system could support 158 percent bigger U.S. economy all without needing oil or coal, or for that matter nuclear
energy.
Two-thirds of the
energy
it takes to move a typical car is caused by its weight.
And every unit of
energy
you save at the wheels, by taking out weight or drag, saves seven units in the tank, because you don't have to waste six units getting the
energy
to the wheels.
They can save lives because this stuff can absorb up to 12 times as much crash
energy
per pound as steel.
Also today's military revolution in
energy
efficiency is going to speed up all of these civilian advances in much the same way that military R&D has given us the Internet, the Global Positioning System and the jet engine and microchip industries.
Over the next 40 years, buildings, which use three-quarters of the electricity, can triple or quadruple their
energy
productivity, saving 1.4 trillion dollars, net present value, with a 33 percent internal rate of return or in English, the savings are worth four times what they cost.
And industry can accelerate too, doubling its
energy
productivity with a 21 percent internal rate of return.
The key is a disruptive innovation that we call integrative design that often makes very big
energy
savings cost less than small or no savings.
Integrative design can also increase
energy
savings in industry.
But industry as a whole has another half-trillion dollars of
energy
still to save.
But a standard industrial pumping loop was redesigned to use at least 86 percent less energy, not by getting better pumps, but just by replacing long, thin, crooked pipes with fat, short, straight pipes.
Well, from the coal burned at the power plant through all these compounding losses, only a tenth of the fuel
energy
actually ends up coming out the pipe as flow.
Typically our retrofit designs save about 30 to 60 percent of the
energy
and pay back in a few years, while the new facility designs save 40 to 90-odd percent with generally lower capital cost.
So our
energy
future is not fate, but choice, and that choice is very flexible.
In 1976, for example, government and industry insisted that the amount of
energy
needed to make a dollar of GDP could never go down.
So to solve the
energy
problem, we just needed to enlarge it.
So focusing on outcomes, not motives, can turn gridlock and conflict into a unifying solution to America's
energy
challenge.
People, energy, make the glue, organize the team.
So when you discuss and when you plan for the resources and the
energy
needed for the future, for human beings on this planet, you have to plan for 10 billion.
It's as if we've all got 125 lightbulbs on all the time, 125 kilowatt-hours per day per person is the
energy
consumption of the UK.
It's actually a bigger footprint if we take into account the embodied
energy
in the stuff we import into our country as well.
So we're a picture, if you like, of what the future
energy
consumption might be looking like in other countries, too.
So, for example, the middle line there, 0.1 watts per square meter, is the
energy
consumption per unit area of Saudi Arabia, Norway, Mexico in purple, and Bangladesh 15 years ago.
What this means is, even if you covered the whole of the United Kingdom with
energy
crops, you couldn't match today's
energy
consumption.
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