by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 27, 2010 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Back in the day when I was in the nuclear Navy, Greenpeace was not so infrequently pulling stunts like running their zodiacs up on the top of submarine hulls to make their unfounded statements of radiation releases to the...
by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 20, 2010 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The masses want power on demand without interruption or failure. They want it at a practically negligible cost and more so every year, they want it without emissions or other unpleasant byproducts. In the upper Midwest, energy...
by Jeff Ihnen | Feb 3, 2010 | Energy Efficiency, Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]There is a running joke in our business that electrical engineers don’t know anything about energy efficiency. It is only a joke. One of the sharpest energy guys I have interviewed was a physics major who started on the ground...
by Jeff Ihnen | Nov 3, 2009 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Talk about an oxymoron. Years ago this was a favorite saying of my roommate and I as we lambasted dopey ads on TV, on paper, or over the airwaves. Fewer years ago, once I got into this energy efficiency profession, I was speaking...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 27, 2009 | Energy Rant
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Studies have shown that LEED buildings are no more efficient and have no less of a “carbon footprint” than the average building of its peers. I remember reading an old guy’s rant in one of the 20 building engineering and...
by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 21, 2009 | Energy Rant
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