by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 18, 2025 | Energy Rant
Four years ago, in the Four Horsemen of the Rebound, I lampooned what is known as Jevons’ Paradox. A paradox is a statement of contradiction or puzzle. For example, I remember Zeno’s Paradox from my goofy philosophy professor in college. Our class discussed...
by Jeff Ihnen | May 6, 2024 | Energy Rant
Think you’re a climate change genius? Strap in and prepare for whiplash. To close out last week’s post, I referenced a Forbes article, Green Hydrogen’s Hype Hits Some Very Expensive Hurdles, which seeded the roots for this week’s Energy Rant....
by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 4, 2024 | Energy Rant
Energy efficiency program administrators can be quite conservative regarding change and innovation. I love hearing, “Bring us new ideas that have been successful in three or four other programs.” There you are! The pinch is on. Energy efficiency codes and standards...
by Jeff Ihnen | Aug 28, 2023 | Energy Rant
Last week, we looked at Total Resource Cost (TRC) tests that were developed decades ago to put a high value on avoided source energy costs. That was right for the time, but not today. I demonstrated that energy costs, mostly dominated by natural gas, are near historic...
by Jeff Ihnen | Mar 7, 2023 | Energy Rant
General Russel Honoré delivered the closing plenary from last week’s AESP Annual Conference. He humorously but effectively preached to the choir about climate change mitigation. I will take one sub-topic he mentioned, food waste, and run with that this week. I may...
