Using less energy today can save money and improve the quality of the environment for future generations. RAND has informed public awareness and policy with research on such topics as energy use in commercial buildings, household energy conservation, the conflict between energy conservation and productivity in schools and offices, and the potential to reduce the energy requirements of U.S. commercial airlines.
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Discussion of some of the critical elements of governmental regulatory policy that are likely to affect the availability and distribution of energy--natural gas, petroleum products, and electric power--in California during the present period of scarc...
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A discussion of (1) advantages and problems in substituting natural gas for electricity, especially for residential space heating and cooling and water heaters; (2) possibilities and problems of producing and using synthetic gas; and (3) ways of curt...
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The author explores the validity of the notion that if land use management can be applied to the problem of energy conservation, it would obviously be by changes in the relative location of homes, jobs, recreational amenities, etc., so...
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A discussion of the issue of the participation of state and local governments in the resolution of energy problems. The author's proposition is that energy issues involving significant concurrent jurisdiction of two or more governmental entities are...
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Discusses the use of energy in personal transportation and residential buildings, in terms of both primary energy (fossil fuels consumed) and kilowatt-hours or Btu of direct consumption. Since energy prices may rise far beyond historical levels, con...
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Investigates the changes that can be made in water heating technology to reduce the energy required to heat a given amount of water to some acceptable temperature, i.e., to reduce heat losses from the system.
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Sought to devise analytical tools to evaluate the effects on private transportation of national energy conservation measures, to apply these tools in a systematic analysis to compare the effectiveness of several alternative policy instrument...
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Electricity conservation measures in the commercial sector : the Los Angeles experience
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Describes energy utilization in the United States and proposes measures for conserving energy without economic dislocation. Demand for electricity has been growing 8 to 8-1/2 percent each year. Reducing demand growth to 3 percent would buy time to ...
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Examines the three greatest sources of growth — heating, cooling, and lighting — in terms of four major growth-slowing measures: improved building insulation; substitution of gas for electricity in selected end uses; use of solar energy...
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A discussion of the preliminary results of an ongoing study of the use of energy in public and commercial buildings. The effects of building location, design, and operation alternatives are developed, together with initial estimates of the conservat...
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An investigation of the technical and economic aspects of tapping solar energy stored in plants and organic wastes to provide an alternative to the dwindling resources of fossil fuels. The amounts of energy that might be derived from conventional cr...
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Written in March-April of 1950, this paper outlines the world petroleum situation at that time, and predicts its effect on the United States. 1950 data on the world's oil sources and known reserves clearly indicated a depleted supply.
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An assessment of the extent to which rapid adoption of conservation measures might help relieve the energy crisis, including how far each conservation measure might go toward reducing expected shortages and the potential aggregate effect on the...
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Discussion of two important aspects of allocation policy. The first is the overall distribution of energy supplies among different energy products and among four major sectors of the economy: residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation....
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Fifty-state data for 1960 and 1970 are used to estimate equations for predicting (a) household stocks of energy using devices including space heating units, ranges, air conditioners, clothes washers and dryers, ...
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The Potential for Energy Conservation in Commercial Air Transport.
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This project sought to evaluate strategies for controlling oxidant (smog) in Los Angeles and to investigate their sensitivity to assumptions.
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At present rates of energy demand, possible environmental effects are severe depletion, or even exhaustion, of domestic fuel supplies in 40 to 50 years, unacceptable concentrations of radioactive and other waste materials, and massive desecration ...
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A call for reduction of future electricity use by more than 60 percent of what the state's major utility companies forecast consumption will be if their projections are extended to the year 2000.
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