The Future is Now: The Business, Technology and Politics of Global Energy

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The Future is NowThe Business, Technology and
Politics of Global Energy

• Thinking Globally, Acting Locally Energy
  Conservation
• and Sustainability at the Community Level
• Paxton Marshall, Engineering School
• Phoebe Crisman, School of Architecture
• Bill Morrish, School of Architecture
• Cheryl Gomez, U.Va. Facilities Management

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Supply-side solution

• "conservation may be a sign of personal virtue,
  but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound,
  comprehensive energy policy"
• Vice President Dick Cheney, April 2001

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Demand-side solution

• We MUST and CAN
• make energy conservation
• the centerpiece of our
• energy policy
• Paxton Marshall,
• March 2008

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We must because

• We have created a way of life that is utterly
  dependent upon the burning of fossil fuels, a
  FINITE Resource.
• 80 of U.S. energy
• is produced by burning
• fossil fuels.

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We must because
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We must because
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We can because
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We can because
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Two complementary approaches

• Technological
• Supply Side
• Demand Side
• Behavioral
• Policies
• Markets
• Personal/Education/Religious/
• Consciousness raising

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ecoMOD a multi-disciplinary collaborative
projectcreating affordable, prefabricated,
ecological housing units
University of Virginia School of Architecture in
partnership with the UVA School of Engineering
and Applied Science
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Source DOE annual energy report
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In the United States, buildings account for   
 65 of electricity consumption,    36 of
energy use,    30 of greenhouse gas
emissions,    30 of raw materials use,  
 30 of waste output (136 million tons annually),
and    12 of potable water consumption.
Source U.S. Green Building Council
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Comparing ecoMOD1 to U.S. home of 1000-1500 sq-ft

• ecoMOD1 consumes 51.2 less energy
• than the average American house of its size

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evaluate

• post occupancy evaluation
• monitor and analyze the buildings -- energy
  usage, water usage, thermal performance, indoor
  air quality
• affordability analysis mass production
  feasibility business plan
• perform life cycle assessments of major building
  materials

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Engineering Teams
ecoMODIII SEAM HOUSE
Methods to Determine Energy Consumption

• Monitoring
• MEP
• Modeling and Simulation
• Data Analysis
• Presentation
• Structural

• Power Factor
• Crest Factor
• RMS Wattage
• Harmonics

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CO2 levels over one week
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Technology and Behavior

• Feedback to residents can help them better
  understand energy use and take appropriate steps
  to conserve, e.g. setting thermostat back when
  going to bed or leaving home.
• Automation can save energy, e.g. using CO2 to
  recognize when no one is home and set thermostat
  back

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Role of Policy

• U.S. CAFE standards passed 1975
• CAFÉ standards raised 2007

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Harnessing the power of markets

• Prices of fossil fuels do not include the costs
  of EXTERNALITIES such as pollution, depletion of
  finite resources, global warming, government
  subsidies, military cost of maintaining access to
  middle eastern oil, etc.
• Prices must reflect true costs to induce rational
  economic behavior.