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Opening slide

Main points today

• we are interested in two types of efficiency (simple process and overall - including machinery/investment)
• increased efficiency can lead to the "rebound effect"
• regulation of processes can be external or "built in"
• how do we get people to be more efficient (eduation, policy, incentives)

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Week 4: Efficiency

Simple and process efficiency

• efficiency
• two-types
• net energy
• simple examples
  • stoves
  • water

The rebound effect

• a cautionary note about making processes more efficient and cheaper

Energy to build infrastructure - embedded energy.

• example - energy used and contained in material to build houses

Controlling processes to make them efficient

• optimization
• dynamic optimization
• optimization by design
• multiple objectives tradeoffs

Remember the goals

• efficiency not goal
• progress
• resiliency revisted
• policies and educations maybe harder than you think