by Jeff Ihnen | Oct 31, 2016 | Energy Rant
It’s Halloween. Hundreds of thousands of people have to figure out a different costume because a clown plague has infected the country. While I don’t consume tabloid news, I did hear that in some cities, the clowns are getting beat up. I thought, now that isn’t a bad...
by Jeff Ihnen | Sep 27, 2016 | Energy Rant
Earlier this year, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey of 2012. The prior release was 2003. The data do not paint a pretty picture for energy code effectiveness. Other data we are accumulating indicate...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 22, 2015 | Energy Rant
Our industry really needs to call timeout; take a look around and ask, “what the hell are we doing?” Build it [energy program] and they will come? No. Build it, and they will be alienated and give it the middle digit. As noted most recently in a post on condensing...
by Jeff Ihnen | Jun 1, 2015 | Energy Rant
Everyone has probably heard at least one hundred or maybe a thousand light bulb jokes – the ones that disparage a class, gender, group, country, state, generation, etc. The point is to make fun of the group in question because changing a light bulb is so simple, but...
by Jeff Ihnen | Apr 6, 2015 | Energy Rant
In January, I wrote about code compliance and that while energy codes keep ratcheting down energy intensity in theory, reality is misery. That post was a thinly veiled advertisement for my AESP National Conference session in the Lion’s Lair, and that presentation can...
