{"id":2969,"date":"2012-03-10T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T14:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2969"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:11:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:11:29","slug":"unintended-consequences-of-energy-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/unintended-consequences-of-energy-efficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences of Energy Efficiency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0833_UnintendedC1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1865 one British economist pointed out that energy efficiency didn&#8217;t reduce energy consumption \u2013 it increased it. As energy became cheaper people used more of it for a broader array of applications. Clive Thompson writing about a new book titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1594485615\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=centives-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1594485615\"><em>The Conundrum<\/em><\/a> points out some of the ways this backlash effect has occurred in recent history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The increase in the efficiency of automobile engines brought about demand for larger cars with more electronic sensors.<\/li>\n<li>The decrease in the cost of lighting meant that we just stuffed lights into damned near everything, including sneakers.<\/li>\n<li>The increase in the efficiency of air-conditioners just made air-conditioning the norm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read other examples, what this says about sustainability, and why this might be more of a critique on growth rather than a critique of energy efficiency click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2012\/02\/st_thompson_energy\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2012\/02\/st_thompson_energy\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1865 one British economist pointed out that energy efficiency didn&#8217;t reduce energy consumption \u2013 it increased it. As energy became cheaper people used more of it for a broader array of applications. Clive Thompson writing about a new book titled The Conundrum points out some of the ways this backlash effect has occurred in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0833_UnintendedC1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7495,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/7495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}