- Category: Energy Efficiency 30 Oct 2012 - Published on
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 00:41 - Hits (820) A recent scientific
study found that efficient end-use technologies are most likely
to prevent carbon emissions and provide higher social returns –
and yet, when it comes to funding, they tend to get ignored.
According to the study, creating more energy-efficient cars,
buildings and household appliances are as effective low-carbon
efforts, if not more so. The study comes from the Tyndall Center
for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.
Currently, innovation efforts dwell on developing energy supply
technologies, such as new power stations, instead of improving
the manner by which energy is used. "About two-thirds of all
public innovation efforts are directed toward energy supply
technologies. It is vital that innovations in renewable energy
supply continue, but the imbalance in spending needs to be
redressed urgently to mitigate climate change,” said Dr. Charlie
Wilson, researcher at the Ty