Blog 3 - - - Section 15

More Profit with less carbon

Abundance by design, to understand the benefits of business and the environment through renewable energy sources. Many people fear less carbon use means more pressure on the economy, only the opposite is true. It is cheaper to save fuel and use it efficiently, than it is to buy more fuel and use it wastefully. Less carbon allows more money to be saved and to be reinvested into the acceleration of global growth. New power sources are needed become less carbon dependent, and to cut down on wasteful energy conversion processes. Worst consumer with no benefit is standby power sources. The techniques used to accomplish maximum power conservation have to be explained and taught in detail, for acceptable results to be accomplished. Many small steps taken to add up to one much larger goal is harder to grasp, than one large step to equal one large goal. This is the current problem many people face. Efficiently is beneficial at all points of the service stream. Less power can be generated at the source, and less energy will be unnecessarily wasted at the consumer. Current construction views are much too narrow when it comes to factoring in green technologies, for power saving. The ability to see the broader picture, allows people to see upfront cost of more insulation, may result in no heating or cooling systems at all, making it actually cheaper. Components need to be added with a muilty purpose in mind, instead of many singular components working independent of each other. The benefits are much larger with option one. Initial cost is nothing, when compared to the outcomes of an efficient design. More money is saved in construction and overall operation costs. New techniques for smarter power systems are also safer and much more advanced. By not staying idol with current technologies, markets are accelerated into new materials and practices, bettering current ideas. An example is carbon fiber in cars. The reduction of oil consumption is already in progress, Ethanol and Natural Gas are said to be able to phase of convention oil by 2050. Elimination oil use from the world would not only benefit the environment, political conflicts would stop over natural resources as well. New technologies currently being used, is wind power. Wind is the best producing alternative energy source so far. The installation and running cost still come in much lower that current coal plants, but advances still have to be made to produce more energy.
It has been shown in the 80’s that carbon consumption isn’t need for growth to occur. In fact early in the decade the trend was high efficiently was out pacing economic growth. Allowing countries to grow, and have a shrinking power consumption.
The overall problem of greenhouse gas emissions still remains. Although the prevailing view of fixing the problem is still cheaper than leaving it. People have to understand that results are not going to be instant, and initial costs are actually cheaper than conventional methods. Benefits will come with efficiently, and energy saving choices are just that and not to be viewed as expenditures. Governments have to remove poorly designed incentives to use inefficient technologies and create an open market for new power supplies. The world will benefit both economically and environmentally.

This was an awesome read. I was completely uninformed about the progression of a nation with a even high progression of efficiently. The concept was interesting to explore, and kept me reading to understand the reasoning behind it. The new technologies used for building home and car will only make the world better, the public is beginning to understand the concept, but the governments are lacking behind, I think profits will be made either way, and politicians should stop worrying about making money off of old technologies, new one make money as well.