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Oct 10

Electrified Heating without Breaking the Grid or Bank

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Rant No Comments

Here are my last words, for now, on artificial intelligence: I do not claim to understand the computations or systems behind AI whatsoever. However, I do understand human behavior very well, so when I saw a headline last week, JPMorgan CEO: AI Will Eventually Lead to 3.5-Day Workweek, my response was, never, not going to happen. I mean, people will not be compensated with 40 hours of pay for 28 hours of work. That is fantasy. I remember dispelling such fiction as a grade schooler because the same concept was floated back in the 1970s. Only the mode of automation…

Dec 19

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Strange Magic

By Jeff Ihnen Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant 2 Comments

A few weeks back I came across an energy blogger that referenced a software developer who would do an energy audit via address and energy bills. Period. Really? As my roommate and I used to say, “C’mon dude,” as in give me a big fat (or favorite expletive here) break. We have done the address / energy consumption analysis many times but at MOST, we can do a decent job of benchmarking the facility against comparable ones but even this is difficult. We can measure the building footprint with satellite images. Easy. The challenge is multi-story facilities, and I mean…