Energy education: breaking up the rational energy use barriers

Human development is associated directly or indirectly with the energy use, and because of this the energetic sources were dealt with in the recent past, as fully available to human necessities. The reality shows that the energy availability, considering the nonrenewable sources, is limited, and beyond that, the exploration, the processing and the use of energy impose considerable impacts on the environment. There is not a system which operates with no losses and without imposing changes to the environment. Therefore, the energy conservation incorporates the concepts and the actions applied to the research of sustainable balance between nature and the energy availability and use. Such actions can be presented both in the short term, in which the energy system is close to a collapse, or in the medium/long term, in which those responsible for the energy policies are concerned with the structure of the socioeconomic development. Such a situation requires more responsibility in the treatment of energy questions, mainly through education, which represents long-term investments. This paper discusses barriers that are present in the projects applied to energy conservation, by making clear that education is one of the best ways to transform the human behavior in for the rational use of energy. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. Ltd. All rights reserved.

Energy Restriction During Breeding Gilt Development: An Economic Analysis

Swine production has increasingly become a lowmargin business. As costs of production have increased, producers are continuing to increase efficiency in both market pig production and gilt development. Restricting energy during gilt development reduces feeding costs and can enhance some productivity measures, but can also negatively impact other areas of production. Thus, the net economic returns from a restricted energy gilt development program are unclear. This study utilized gilt development and market pig production data for two genetic lines of hogs, LWxLR (a cross between industry Large White and Landrace) and L45X (a Nebraska line selected 23 generations for increased litter size) from Johnson and Miller and Johnson et al., to estimate the returns to finishing market hogs using conventional and restricted energy gilt development programs.

Energy from the West : a progress report of a technology assessment of western energy resource development : executive summary : prepared for Office of Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency /

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Annual report to Congress on the Automotive Technology Development Program. Tenth.

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Annual report to Congress on the Automotive Technology Development Program. Ninth.

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Annual report to Congress on the Automotive Technology Development Program. Eleventh.

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Annual report to Congress on the Automotive Technology Development Program. Fifteenth.

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Homebuyer education learning program guide /

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Isotope development program; contract scope statements.

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Advanced subsystems for practical electric vehicles : the electric and hybrid vehicle subsystems technology development program.

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First year work plan for a technology assessment of Western energy resource development /

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Decentralization of the Area Health Education Center program : orientation of regional personnel, Dallas, Texas, Sheraton-Dallas Hotel, February 20 and 21, 1974.

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In-pile loop test for the pebble bed reactor fuel development program : final report /

"Final report to Sanderson and Porter for subcontract no. S-3 under USAEC Prime Contract no. AT(30-1)-2378."

LCRE neutron sensor development program /

"Contract AT(30-1)-2789."