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Slaying the Energy Cost Dragon

Slaying the Energy Cost Dragon. Mike Morris and Dave Ryan National Center for Appropriate Technology. Thanks to CEFS. Thanks to our funder, the USDA Risk Management Agency. 1. Understand Your Enemy. How the US economy uses energy (100 quadrillion Btus).

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Slaying the Energy Cost Dragon

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  1. Slaying the Energy Cost Dragon Mike Morris and Dave Ryan National Center for Appropriate Technology

  2. Thanks to CEFS. Thanks to our funder, the USDA Risk Management Agency.

  3. 1. Understand Your Enemy

  4. How the US economy uses energy (100 quadrillion Btus) Source: Kastens, T., K. Dhuyvetter, et al., Energy Use in the Kansas Agricultural Sector, Kansas Energy Council, June 15, 2006.

  5. Agricultural Production 21% Home Refrigeration & Preparation 31% Transportation 14% Packaging 7% Processing 16% Food Retail 4% Restaurants 7% How the US food system uses energy (10 quadrillion Btus) Source: Heller & Keoleian, 2000

  6. How US agriculture uses energy Electricity (Non-Irrigation) 18% Fertilizer Production 29% Liquid Petroleum Gas 5% Natural Gas (Non-Irrigation) 1% Gasoline 9% Herbicide/Pesticide Production 6% Irrigation 7% Diesel Fuel (Non-Irrigation) 25% Source: Heller & Keoleian, 2000

  7. How Cherry Farm Uses Energy (FY05-06, billions of Btus) 7 billion Btu

  8. Cherry Farm’s “Energy Footprint” Raw Fuels

  9. 6.0 5.0 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 Energy used per unit of farm output (1996 = 1.0) Total # US farms (millions) US farms have doubled their energy efficiency since the 1970s. Source: USDA Economic Research Service

  10. 2. Arm yourself. Get dangerous.

  11. Become keenly aware of how you use energy.

  12. Read and understand your power bill. • Are you being charged according to the right rate schedule? • Energy rates • Declining block • Demand • Time of use • Beyond the bill: tariffs

  13. 3. Now let’s go to war.

  14. Lighting • CFL • T8 • T5 • HPSV • MH

  15. Heating • Radiant Heating • Heat Pumps

  16. Ventilation • Passive Cupolas • EE Fans

  17. Cooling • Evaporative

  18. Refrigeration • Heat Reclamation • Ground Water Cooling

  19. Process • Demand Reductions

  20. 4. Turn waste energy streams into revenue or savings. • Wood Waste • Heat from Milk • Process Waste • Manure and Litter

  21. 5. There’s free energy all around you. Start using it. • Solar Water Heating • Solar Electric • Wind • Biofuels

  22. Any questions?

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