[pf] current philosophy challenged.

· Which will it be:

- If you haven't got enough of what you want, you get more.

  or:

- If you haven't got enough of what you want, you make better use of what
you have.
 . . . .  ?

· The current supply-side view needs to be changed to a demand-side view.


· This came to mind when I was thinking about the colossal waste of energy,
in the developed world; house-air heating-&-cooling, vehicle (size, number
of passengers), chemical energy turned to heat and then with a _lot_ of
waste heat, into electricity, instead of more directly into electricity,
and on and on.

· The typical American household "uses" much more energy per year than
_any_ other average household in the world. IMO a big fraction of that
difference in "use" is waste.

· There _is_ no current "energy crisis" in the USA, it's an expectation
that people, business and industry _can_and_must_ continue on into the
future, wasting just as much (i.e. ignoring the whole idea of waste) as in
the recent past.

· The "crisis" is that
     finally that expectation is being challenged by hitting the limits.

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David.

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