Lakewood90712
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Thanks for sharing the info. We can see that a home in Seattle already uses more energy than one in Phoenix. In Buffalo, NY, or Toronto, one can imagine how much worse it is.
Much of the residential use of energy is for temperature control. The use of LED for lighting, better refrigerators, and cooking appliances helps but the use of energy for heating is a much bigger part.
I don't know if there's any solution, other than demolishing existing homes, and building new ones with 2-foot-thick walls for better insulation.
Retrofitting the worst structure in the inventory yields better results. Demolition of a usable single family dwellings, and replacement with new, even if very energy efficient , the construction process is enormous on energy used and carbon production.
Look at a dozen homes of the same sq. ft and number of occupants in a tract. It is surprising, energy consumption varies quite a bit among nearly identical homes. The habits of people make a difference.
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