Is Management Handling the Energy Crisis?

Nowadays most big corporations are run by accountants and lawyers. All they care are the profit and share price. Most CEOs are answering to the shareholder by maximising profits. Most of them are just waiting for other people to spend their money and wish to enjoy the fruit. They only way to achieve the required goal is to legislate the requirement so that everybody have to do it without choice. Otherwise good luck or bad luck. Voluntary action won't work.

Having said that, there still are good ones but not enough to change the world.

Precisely because of the profit involved, CEOs will look for ways to save energy. Legislating will just cut opportunities. The lawyers in the Congress will say "everybody just to install a wind-turbine", and that would make much more expensive the idea of heat recovery (for example) because the law forces them to install a wind-turbine no matter what else they do. You may think that every possible situation can be covered in the law, but that is not true.

There is another danger involved and is that legislators answer to lobby pressures and pass laws that protect the large electricity companies. They could do that (for example) by forcing everyone to generate his own energy and giving away the surplus to the network. At the end the home consumers would be using electricity generated by industries and the energy companies would make a profit without cost.

The possibilities of being screwed up by legislation are endless.

I would just deregulate to let the ones who want use cogeneration to supply themselves of electricity. In countries with state monopolies on electricity generation and distribution that tends to be strictly forbidden. In the USA, I am pretty sure that at least in Texas there are some laws restricting the living off-the-grid.

I have absolutely different experience from you. I "worked" for a huge developer (one of the biggest in the world). The instruction from the top is to do the minimum what the the legilation required and nothing else.

Good luck.

Who is that developer?

Have you got copy of internal communications?

Can't tell you. Commercial secret. Do you think they are so stupid to issue a memo for that? That's one of the reasons I left.

Mant start out trying to save with committiees of Office Personnel, Sales, and quality Control. They for get the people who can actually point out where engery can be saved the maintance , engineering and production staff. The people who use the most engery are the one who should be team leaders.

To most easily answer those three questions, just stick around for a couple of more years. The companies who fail by then will be the ones who flailed today, and the ones with their heads in the sand now, will be buried completely.

Once again, just follow the money. The current "energy crisis" and "global warming" are making some already incredibly wealthy families even more wealthy. They manufactured this "energy crisis", and global warming is what they want; it's melting the polar ice cap and opening access to even more oil than before. As an added bonus, the new route across the forming Polar Ocean will make starting wars with China and Russia much easier for them. The people who actually run this country and the Western world couldn't care less about the environment. They literally only think of themselves. The rest of us are either consumers soon to be slaves, or just in the way.

Yes, the real management is handling the energy crisis, very profitably.

Can't agree more. You have my vote. There is a small difference between scientist and engineer but there is a big gap in logic between politician and the other two. They have two terms to worry about and the defects are then left to the wisdom of the next one.

Sorry, typing mistake from the same Guest. The last "they" refers to politicians.