| Energy Factoids | Source | |
46% Savings potential available to California commercial buildings through cooling and ventilation efficiency efforts. |
Flex your power web site | |
| Forty to sixty percent of the energy used in U.S. commercial and residential buildings is used by HVAC. | DOE/Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, HVAC web page | |
1/3 Reduction in world energy needs resulting from energy efficient buildings, industrial processes, and transportation. |
Wikipedia citing
International Energy Agency |
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| Twelve to fifteen percent of the energy used in industrial facilities is expended on HVAC. | Flex your power web site | |
60% Potential savings with efficiency improvements to industrial heating, cooling, office equipment, and appliances. |
Wikipedia citing Amory Lovins/ Rocky Mountain Institute |
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| Nearly 60% of buildings have oversized HVAC fans that waste as much as 60% of the energy consumed. | Flex your power web site | |
$40K per year Reduction in operating costs for 50,000 square foot office building through no- or low-cost actions. |
Flex your power web site | |
| California businesses annually spend $15 billion on heating, cooling, lighting, and other energy uses. | Flex your power web site | |
10% Organizations that implement energy-efficient measures outperform their competitors by as much as 10%. |
Flex your power web site | |
| Carbon-based pollution will cost U.S. companies $13 to $17 per ton by 2015. | Commuter Check web site | |
$200 billion a year Potential additional savings if the U.S. adopted certain Asian and European energy efficiency practices. |
Rocky Mountain Institute report | |
| Hospitals and other health care facilities use 11 billion kWh in HVAC electricity. | Market Analysis for Institutional HVAC commissioned by Carlisle Power Transmission, 4/9/03. | |
75% U.S. electricity that could be saved with efficiency measures that cost less than electricity itself. |
Wikipedia citing Amory
Lovins/ Rocky Mountain Institute |
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Cleantech Term coined by Nick Parker and Keith Raab to describe products that improve performance, productivity, or efficiency while reducing costs, energy consumption and waste. |
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Cleantech |
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1.5% Worldwide electricity produced by wind power, double that of 2005. |
Wikipedia, with citations to Wind Energy Association |
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| 3.8 billion years
Nature’s design efficiency research and development project (to date). |
The Biomimicry Institute | |
70-90% Potential operating cost savings for improving the efficiency of industrial lighting, fan, and pump systems. |
Wikipedia citing Amory Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute | |
$160 billion a year Savings from current energy practices in the U.S., compared to costs if we wasted energy as we did in 1973. |
Rocky Mountain Institute report | |
RANS CFD software employs Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes equations to model turbulent fluid flow. |
Wikipedia article on CFD | |
$1.2 billion Venture capital investments in clean technology companies in 2Q 2009. |
The Cleantech Group | |
7 years 2008 represents the seventh consecutive year of growth in cleantech venture investing. |
Wikipedia article on cleantech | |
1% and 19% Wind power electricity production in the US—and in Denmark, which plans to increase to 50% by 2025. |
Wikipedia, with citations
to Wind Energy Association |
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Negawatts Term coined by Amory Lovins to describe idea of meeting energy needs by increasing efficiency instead of increasing energy production. |
Wikipedia article on energy efficiency |
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Bernoulli Daniel Bernoulli quantified the mathematics of fluid mechanics in his book Hydrodynamica. |
Wikipedia article on fluid mechanics |