Efficient energy use | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 08/01/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_energy_use


00:02:17 1 Overview
00:05:59 2 Benefits
00:08:12 3 Appliances
00:10:23 4 Building design
00:25:20 5 Energy efficiency by country
00:25:31 5.1 Europe
00:27:27 5.2 Australia
00:29:24 5.3 Canada
00:32:14 5.4 Germany
00:35:33 5.5 Poland
00:35:53 5.6 United States
00:36:43 6 Industry
00:40:11 7 Transportation
00:40:21 7.1 Automobiles
00:44:14 7.2 Street lighting
00:44:55 7.3 Aircraft
00:46:10 8 Alternative fuels
00:46:54 9 Energy conservation
00:49:07 10 Sustainable energy
00:50:15 11 Rebound effect
00:52:25 12 Organisations and programs



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Efficient energy use, sometimes simply called energy efficiency, is the goal to reduce the amount of energy required to provide products and services. For example, insulating a home allows a building to use less heating and cooling energy to achieve and maintain a comfortable temperature. Installing LED lighting, fluorescent lighting, or natural skylight windows reduces the amount of energy required to attain the same level of illumination compared to using traditional incandescent light bulbs. Improvements in energy efficiency are generally achieved by adopting a more efficient technology or production process or by application of commonly accepted methods to reduce energy losses.
There are many motivations to improve energy efficiency. Reducing energy use reduces energy costs and may result in a financial cost saving to consumers if the energy savings offset any additional costs of implementing an energy-efficient technology. Reducing energy use is also seen as a solution to the problem of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the International Energy Agency, improved energy efficiency in buildings, industrial processes and transportation could reduce the world's energy needs in 2050 by one third, and help control global emissions of greenhouse gases. Another important solution is to remove government-led energy subsidies that promote high energy consumption and inefficient energy use in more than half of the countries in the world.Energy efficiency and renewable energy are said to be the twin pillars of sustainable energy policy and are high priorities in the sustainable energy hierarchy. In many countries energy efficiency is also seen to have a national security benefit because it can be used to reduce the level of energy imports from foreign countries and may slow down the rate of energy at which domestic energy resources are depleted.