First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by eecc on Friday February 15, 2019 @03:55PM (#19174629)

LED lights? Highly isolated apartment buildings? Revised urban planning to accommodate a post-commuting work-life? Other energy saving technology? In EU we have a comfortable living off consumption levels that in the US would qualify as church mices' (still not enough to prevent collapse though: https://web.archive.org/web/20140913032823/http://graduatein...)

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by sigstoat on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:02PM (#19174680)

> LED lights?

you need to be addressing the larger chunks of these pie charts:

https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by teamonkey on Saturday February 16, 2019 @06:48AM (#19178218)

Switching to LED lights (and reducing usage) is one example of low-hanging fruit that is easily achievable without affecting lifestyle much. The fat needs to be trimmed in all areas.

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by eecc on Saturday February 16, 2019 @04:09PM (#19180960)

Yeah, did I mention "Highly isolated apartment buildings"? (I did ;)

In fact, there are apartments here in Amsterdam that stay a cool 20C in winter with little or no heating at all, just the warmth from the water boiler flue running through the heat exchanger of the air ventilator.

Nationally sponsored infrastructure plans to replace existing buildings with energy class A at scale would put a big dent on energy consumption.

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