Comments on: U.S. News multiple stories on energy efficiency http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/19/us-news-multiple-stories-on-energy-efficinecy/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:06:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Ronald http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/19/us-news-multiple-stories-on-energy-efficinecy/#comment-11185 Ronald Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:28:52 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/19/us-news-multiple-stories-on-energy-efficinecy/#comment-11185 One thing that might be helpful is to have an electrical meter that a person can read to help with the awareness of how much is being used. Prius has a meter telling the driver how much fuel is being used and those who use it says that it does motivate them to drive more fuel efficiently. Some feedback from the use an electrical meter would help tell the person doing the energy reductions on whether it is working or not. One of the standards of a good video game is that there is accurate feedback from the player to what happens on the screen. If a player feels that what they do with the controller actually affects how well the video player is doing, it’s a good game. If there is little feedback, there’s little interest in playing. A player should win when they do well and lose when they play badly. The problem with making efficiency changes is without feedback, it’s hard to keep up the interest. There should be some way to know that what a person did, actually did affect how much energy was used. Putting meterss on all vehicles would help people with fuel usage feedback. Also with readable electrical meters. I've read where an easily readable electrical meter can reduce electrical usage by 15 percent. One thing that might be helpful is to have an electrical meter that a person can read to help with the awareness of how much is being used.

Prius has a meter telling the driver how much fuel is being used and those who use it says that it does motivate them to drive more fuel efficiently.

Some feedback from the use an electrical meter would help tell the person doing the energy reductions on whether it is working or not.

One of the standards of a good video game is that there is accurate feedback from the player to what happens on the screen. If a player feels that what they do with the controller actually affects how well the video player is doing, it’s a good game. If there is little feedback, there’s little interest in playing. A player should win when they do well and lose when they play badly.

The problem with making efficiency changes is without feedback, it’s hard to keep up the interest. There should be some way to know that what a person did, actually did affect how much energy was used. Putting meterss on all vehicles would help people with fuel usage feedback. Also with readable electrical meters. I’ve read where an easily readable electrical meter can reduce electrical usage by 15 percent.

]]> By: Tom http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/19/us-news-multiple-stories-on-energy-efficinecy/#comment-11193 Tom Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:04:02 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/04/19/us-news-multiple-stories-on-energy-efficinecy/#comment-11193 The ability to guage fuel usage in motor vehicles has been available for decades. They're called vacuum guages. Some vehicles, like the '78 AMC Concord I once owned, had an actual guage. Others merely had a simple light that would come on if your right foot got too heavy. I remember certain Chrysler products had a light on the tip of the left front fender which also doubled as a turn indicator. A friend of mine has a Chevy Astro van and he gets incredible mileage from that box on wheels because he pays attention to his mileage readout guage. My Concord was the same way.... My point is: the guage/meter has to be easily visible and the person in charge has to pay attention! The ability to guage fuel usage in motor vehicles has been available for decades. They’re called vacuum guages. Some vehicles, like the ‘78 AMC Concord I once owned, had an actual guage. Others merely had a simple light that would come on if your right foot got too heavy. I remember certain Chrysler products had a light on the tip of the left front fender which also doubled as a turn indicator.
A friend of mine has a Chevy Astro van and he gets incredible mileage from that box on wheels because he pays attention to his mileage readout guage. My Concord was the same way….
My point is: the guage/meter has to be easily visible and the person in charge has to pay attention!

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