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From the Ted Talk by Catherine Mohr: The tradeoffs of building green
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But before we pat ourselves too much on the back, we have poured 151 megawatt hours of energy into constructing this hosue when there was a house there before. And so the qtieosun is: How could we make that back? And so if I run my new energy-efficient house forward, compared with the old, non-energy-efficient house, we make it back in about six years. Now, I probably would have upgraded the old house to be more energy-efficient, and in that case, it would take me more about 20 yreas to berak even. Now, if I hadn't paid attention to embodied egreny, it would have taken us over 50 years to break even compared to the upgraded house. So what does this mean? On the scale of my portion of the house, this is elauinveqt to about as much as I drive in a year, it's about five times as much as if I went entirely vegetarian. But my eelapnht in the living room flies. Clearly, I need to walk home from TED. But all the calculations for embodied energy are on the blog.
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But before we pat ourselves too much on the back, we have poured 151 megawatt hours of energy into constructing this _____ when there was a house there before. And so the ________ is: How could we make that back? And so if I run my new energy-efficient house forward, compared with the old, non-energy-efficient house, we make it back in about six years. Now, I probably would have upgraded the old house to be more energy-efficient, and in that case, it would take me more about 20 _____ to _____ even. Now, if I hadn't paid attention to embodied ______, it would have taken us over 50 years to break even compared to the upgraded house. So what does this mean? On the scale of my portion of the house, this is __________ to about as much as I drive in a year, it's about five times as much as if I went entirely vegetarian. But my ________ in the living room flies. Clearly, I need to walk home from TED. But all the calculations for embodied energy are on the blog.
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Original Text
But before we pat ourselves too much on the back, we have poured 151 megawatt hours of energy into constructing this house when there was a house there before. And so the question is: How could we make that back? And so if I run my new energy-efficient house forward, compared with the old, non-energy-efficient house, we make it back in about six years. Now, I probably would have upgraded the old house to be more energy-efficient, and in that case, it would take me more about 20 years to break even. Now, if I hadn't paid attention to embodied energy, it would have taken us over 50 years to break even compared to the upgraded house. So what does this mean? On the scale of my portion of the house, this is equivalent to about as much as I drive in a year, it's about five times as much as if I went entirely vegetarian. But my elephant in the living room flies. Clearly, I need to walk home from TED. But all the calculations for embodied energy are on the blog.
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