Efficiency
2015-09-30 16:42:46.16943+02 by
Dan Lyke
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UCLA’s free Energy Atlas uncovers L.A. buildings’ role in greenhouse gas emissions
... The atlas reveals for the first time that the most inefficient buildings in the county aren’t the oldest, but structures from the 1970s. Users of the atlas will find that residents of Malibu use the most energy per capita and the denizens of Avalon on Catalina Island use the least. And while homes in many low-income neighborhoods are less efficient per square foot than homes in wealthy neighborhoods, well-off neighborhoods use more energy per person. For example, the average person consumes 10 times as much electricity in Malibu as in Bell, and countywide, wealthy areas consume more than three times as much energy as poor areas. ...
Via Research Buzz.
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