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Dean

The Canadian government provided at least C$29.6 billion in financing to fossil fuel and petrochemical companies in 2024, with most of it directed toward the over-budget Trans Mountain pipeline, according to estimates from Environmental Defence Canada.

This is money that should have been used to encourage more #electrification, #microgrid expansion, #energyefficiency measures, etc. #fossilfools #pipelines

theenergymix.com/trans-mountai

The Energy Mix · Trans Mountain Dominates as Canada’s Fossil Fuel Support Nears $30B for 2024By Farida Hussain
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Jeff Fortin T.

I'd want Nautilus (and thus the #GNOME file picker UI) to stop trying to search multiple times per second while I am not nearly done typing the search query, as I consider that to be extremely wasteful, conceptually. Pounding the CPU+GPU "faster than I can think & type" is counterproductive.
If you don't "feel the jank" like I do, then think about the wasted energy (especially on battery power):
gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilu

GitLabSlow searching with micro-hangs when typing quickly with many search results (#3452) · Issues · GNOME / Files · GitLabTLDR: although it has improved in 44-46, and with the fix for
#performance#EnergyEfficiency#PowerManagement
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Nemo_bis 🌈

A little satisfaction of the last few months was replacing dozens of 20-year old fluorescent tubes with LED tubes and panels. It took some planning but the installation was very simple and the energy savings are substantial.
majavantila.fi/en/posts/2025/e

Majavan tila osk · Energy saving renovationsOne of the purposes of Majavan tila osk is to defend the commons from the climate crisis, by bringing Finland closer to carbon neutrality. We are happy to announce that we have managed to reduce our direct energy usage (electricity costs) by approximately 50 % with a small investment in energy saving. Our energy use As discussed previously, the main contributions to carbon emissions that we expect to help reduce are those from building construction and heating.
#MajavanTila#EnergyEfficiency#ClimateCrisis
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Nemo_bis 🌈

Is #YouTube reducing the average bitrate on 1080p videos for non-Premium users? I always hear about compression artefacts but rarely noticed them, until recently.

You'd think higher compression is good for #EnergyEfficiency. The impact of delaying the expansion of networking hardware is hard to assess. Energy spent on client-side decoding and new client hardware probably dominates.

Results of encoding settings are not obvious:
arxiv.org/abs/2401.09854

Excerpt from "A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming" by Afzal et al. «With the widespread creation of video coding standards, the complexity of new algorithms has increased, which has also increased the decoding time and energy consumption [83]. [...] Resolution. Energy consumption increases with the higher resolution and decoding overhead. Furthermore, the decoding power, defined as the total power subtracted from the idle power of the CPU, screen, and network, is not sensitive to the video content and bitrate variations within the same resolution [217]. Framerate. Yue et al. [217] discovered that increasing the framerate of a video streaming from 30 to 60 frames per second for a given mobile phone resolution doubles the energy decoding. For other cases, increasing from 7 to 15 and 15 to 30 the increase was more than double.»
#ClimateChange#Google#GreenComputing
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Juggling With Eggs

I’m all for getting private landlords to increase the the EPC rating of their properties to a ‘C’…that’s where we were supposed to be by 2025, but the #Tories never legislated for it.

Despite the puff of their press release, this is just another #Labour consultation with an ambition to achieve it by 2030.

Less talk, more action needed.

#Retrofit
#Housing
#EnergyEfficiency

gov.uk/government/news/warm-ho

GOV.UK · Warm homes and cheaper bills as government accelerates Plan for ChangeBy Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
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CelloMom On Cars

Almost half of US states haven’t done the bare minimum to cut utility bills

"A new report finds 24 states have yet to establish an “#EnergyEfficiency resource standard," which has been shown to curb demand, lower costs, and reduce emissions."

grist.org/energy/almost-half-o

Grist · Almost half of US states haven’t done the bare minimum to cut utility billsBy Tik Root
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CelloMom On Cars

Home energy coaching

Households received one report on their #energy usage, along with coaching about how to increase #EnergyEfficiency, [with or without] a smart device giving them real-time updates on their energy consumption.

Across the two groups, homes typically reduced monthly consumption of electricity by 33% and gas by 42%. They lowered their bills by 53%, on aggregate, and the percentage of income they spent on energy dropped from 10.1% to 5.3%.

techxplore.com/news/2025-01-am

Tech Xplore · Amsterdam experiment shows how households can cut energy costs by about 50%By Peter Dizikes
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