I believe the duck graph would be entirely eliminated if people had well insulated homes and air-con that could take advantage of abundant solar to pre-cool their home before they got home. Not that it&#x27;s easy to get from here to there, but it&#x27;s hardly the jetsons either.<p>The kind of person who frequents this site might like the Rocky Mountain Institute&#x27;s take on this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rmi.org&#x2F;our_goals" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rmi.org&#x2F;our_goals</a><p>Loads of boring wonkery about more efficient buildings, and better ways of regulating utilities to align incentives properly, or ideas for financing the deployment of new technologies for efficent shipping and so on.