Alright so here goes. This is not going to be a popular opinion and I am all for that. But I am getting so fed up with everyone running about touting energy efficiency, like just because some overzealous builder claims that a certain amount of reduction has been achieved it means it really happened. Where is the proof? Many taxpayers pay an exorbitant amount of money that eventually goes toward constructing public buildings that are allegedly energy efficient. I have earned the LEED AP in Building Design and Construction credential, therefore I know a little bit about the subject of energy efficiency, though it certainly doesn't make me an expert. Not by a long shot. But I learned some things. The most important, so far, being that anyone can run around saying that energy reduction is going to be X percent. Until you force them to prove it, how will you know if it ever really happened? What abotu plug loads? What about human behavior ? Damn, now my backsapce key is brken again. Dm Damn Damn.
Anyway, I"m just tired of seeing all these new, supplsedly energy efficient buildigns being built, while the old skeletons of their former selves sit abaondoned on overwgrown and dneglected lots. Owners are not held accountalbe for what happens to their former homes and towns become overrun with empty boxes. So you reduced energy use by maybe 20%$, if you're lucky, but now you have towns being taken over by cinder block gardens that will never be anyhthing but places for skaters to hang out. It's sickening. And we're all paying for it out the nose. If we're going to foxcus so much on building new and gbetter prerforming buildings, we should make corporations and cities and states and everyone find a way to responsibily address their current land leases and owenerships and suhch before moving on. I really can't setand to see all these vaacant building popping up everywhere, bparticularly in downtaown areas that could be so vibrant if giventh the chance.
Sorry for all the typos. Not only am I worked up but my backspace key is again askew.
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