7 Ways to Save the World

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This is about stabilizing the hysteria, critics and panic. This is also a reference guide to other things. If people take the reference guide, they can live better. If they do not, they can always know what the world is like. This is a thread to help people discover about the truth of the organizations and parties. This is a summary of the whole entire world's injustice and how to solve them.

Summary: "This thread is a reference guide for people who want to live a better life and a stabilizing thread for hysteria"
 
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http://www.intuser.net
a summary of renewable energy

http://www.recyclingbizz.com
Recycling for the scrap industry

http://www.rcto.ca/Donors/Donors.aspx?gclid=COD384KKlpUCFQUHQQodNjUOfw
Donate used computers

http://www.think-food.com
Phones for food

http://www.whiteswan.ca/english/responsible_choice.html
White Swan

http://picasaweb.google.com/timnruth/SanDiegoCAMar2008/photo#5174862879246953170
Images of vault door's use in a basement

A person can put the vault doors as doors of the basement. As long as the basement is secure, the structure is good for harsh surface weather. There can be extra equipment for emergency purposes. For molten lava attacks, the best is to avoid it. If you can't, please live in hovering spaces. Hovering spaces is the design similar to hovering boards. The hovering spaces can be powered by renewable energy or any "green" energy.
 
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Further Clearification

Some of my words are not as accurate as the links because I differently define the different ideas.

I am sure the organic definition by the organic organization is correct.

I am sure my definition of the reuse, reduce, and recycling habit is correct.

I am sure efficiency is to: do more with less. When a stick engine produce more energy than a combustion engine, the stick engine is more efficient than the combustion engine. If the stick engine uses 123KW of energy to produce 2KW of energy, the stick engine is not more efficient than the combustion engine. The above case indicates the combustion engine is more energy efficient than the stick engine. If the stick engine uses no energy to produce 2KW of energy, then the stick engine is more efficient than the combustion engine.

I am sure biodegradability should be avoided unless the material cannot be included into the reuse, reduce, and recycling habit.

According to my opinion, green is a redemption and helping stage for companies, industries, and consumers. Green focus on improving the lifestyle of various people by answering the missing links and ideas. Green items need to be efficient and low cost. Green items need to be popular and strong for practical uses.
 
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Magma Reliefs

Magma-Relief City : Ideal for billion years later...

When there are more than 80% land covered by magma, people can use the "Magma-Relief City" method.

People can select areas where wind disturbance is little. Use data from the weather system to identify this.
Boeing helicopter is ideal to obtain factory, shops and other institutions...Above the boeing helicopter, there is a lift. People can use the lift to create a hoverboard. On top of the hoverboard, people can plant plants. Hoverboard can be used with fans and jet packs. Jet packs can be the emergency fuel or lift.

People travel by using helicopters powered by bikes like Team Rocket's aircraft in Pokémon.
The other helicopters can be used for other stuff. People can convert the toxic air to breathable air. For labs, people can easily make the case of the helicopter secure. Space saving ideas such as Ikea's ODDA Twin headboard with storage compartment and ODDA Twin bed frame with headboard and ODDA Twin underbed.

Other helicopters' uses vary. More durable and efficient helicopters can be used for deliveries.
http://www.acrohelipro.com/default.asp?mn=1.82
Common Helicopter types...
 
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Common Question...Common Answer

Well...It's a matter of opinion. If you want to exist, the world is really worth to save. If you don't want to exist, the world is not really worth to save. I do this kind of thing because:
1. I'm bored
2. I have to
3. There are some important values in this world I want to preserve
4. The suffering people deserves to hear about the positive side because they worked hard enough
5. The awful parts of this world is really just a matter of changing things. Adaptation is the most important thing. I want to deliver the message: "Adaptation is the most important thing."
6. The idea of a safe world make my head ache less
7. I can get out of this forum faster.
8. I can say goodbye to people like Risus and start living like an off-grid person with some participation to major events
 

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Jet Fuel

Replacement for the powerful jet/plane fuels: nuclear, halogen-chemicals, and other things such as mercury-lead acid battery combined with hydrogen fuel cell technology...Most safe is probably halogen-chemicals...Can be stopped by other chemicals and easily forms a stable compound....
 

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People don't need to follow what I recommend. This thread is mostly a reference. Below is a better version of my pg.13's recommendation:
Avoid Doctors/Most common stuff
1) Keep a plain diet of vegetables and variety of meats...Any food can taste good as long as the person finds a good cook.
2) Keep the drinks as plain as possible. Once a cup of coffee or milkshake is fine.
3) Exercise daily of a preferable activity
4) Get plenty of good rest...
*bulletins (in normal jargon and words) to inform the public about common illness and the cures
*get doctors who actually cure people with less medicine and environmental damage
*check a gene therapy doctor every time you catch a cold. This is to ensure people are able to see their genes and possible gene murders. Some doctors can use genetics to murder people. Records of your genes can provide evidence for foresnic investigators.

*In addition to the post about physical illness, fruits and vegetables should be part of the 0%-60% cure. Fruits and vegetables help you stay strong by strengthening the immune system. Exercise is a part of the 0%-60% cure as well. I classified exercise, massage, and joint&muscle therapy as one part. Chemotherapy is a part of the chemical cures for intermediate illnesses.
http://www.chemotherapy.com/side_eff...l/boosters.jsp
some information about chemotherapy

*I found mangosteen as the magic current fruit of scientific study. It is special and people need a way to digest the case of the fruit rather than focusing on the proofs. That is because there are already proofs out there. If you can't digest mangosteen, do not worry. People can just drink other fruit drinks to replace mangosteen. Mangosteen is more like a medicine supplement rather than a regular fruit. Link to mangosteen:
http://www.researchmangosteen.com/
search google or other meta search engine if you don't believe me.

Virus cures
I found that many medicines claim to have good effects on health. In truth, they do not. This makes modern medicine less reliable unless the person studied medicines and healing practices.

1) I think the most reliable way to avoid viruses and influenza is to eat well, have little stress and exercise. Food you eat should be plain items like cooked dough, little sugar, and fruits and flavours. The Canadian Food Guide is a great guide for healthy eating. I think no one should eat too purely. If someone eats too purely, their immune system may be weak when food poison enter the someone's body. So, eat a lot of healthy vegetables, but eat some junk food once a while.

2) have some dirt, but not too much dirt. Most people do not fully remove the detergents when they finish cleaning. This makes the floor more sticky, extremely shiny, and more toxic. The detergents also wipes out a lot of weak bacteria, but it lets more stronger bacteria to survive. It's like the bug's rebellion toward human made pesticides. Don't spray chemicals; it kills people and it doesn't work. Just introduce birds to eat these bugs. More bacteria survive because they can rebel the detergents. People can then sell the birds.

Don't clean too much of your floors or walls. The other reason is because bacteria can act as virus absorbancy pads. Virus need a place to live. If one place contain enough bacteria to adopt the virus' baby genes, a cleaner can eliminate the bacteria and the virus together. Since it is very hard to know what are bacteria with baby genes, wear spring, long-sleeve clothing, silk or thin scrafs in your home always. That way, your skin will not contact the extra virus as often. Your clothing will. To ensure absolute safety, change clothes everyday.

If you never clean the rooms, there will be diseases as well. The best way is to clean twice per month using steam cleaners and vacuums. Steam cleaners uses pressure to kill bacteria and vacuums sucks all the uneeded objects. Cyclonic vacuums is like a minature black hole, so I really suggest cyclonic vacuums.

3)If you have a virus infection, do not panic. Often, people's panic lead to the immune system to overwork itself and collapse. When the immune system collapse, more diseases are common.

4)Drink cold water to slow down the virus infections. Virus moves slower when it is in colder conditions.

5)Let dirt accumulate in your nose or other openings. Then take those dirt out every 10 minutes. Dirt in your nose or other openings can act as pads to absorb baby virus cells as well.

6)Stay away from environmental damage places. The very common infections started when the person is tired, have contacted a lethal or somewhat deadly chemical. Example can be of the disease result from overuse and exposure to tobacco. When you stay away from environmental damage places, you increase your chance of survival.


Part I-Health and Society

Physical Health (other than the brain and the nerves)

Survival of the Mutants
Some people hate doctors because of the scientists of Frankenstein.
Doctors, who really care about their patients, suggest a balanced diet, some Wii academy games or $2.50 puzzlers, and a superb exercising habit. $2.50 puzzlers are puzzle books for everyone. The puzzlers cost about $2.50

I read the survival of the sickest. It's a book about accepting more diseases into our society. The authors are saying that people are getting weaker because their immune system cannot have the chance to build and fight microorganisms. The author exaggerates that everyone who have the most disease will survive. Consider the sickle-cell trait. The sickle-cell trait help people to survive. This is because 50% is mutated from disease and 50% is normal. If that is the case, then the book should be Survival of the Mutants. People use the disease and their original immune system to mutate into a new type of immune system.

I agree people should have some microorganisms. If you don't want to go to the doctor, I suggest getting 41% of your body with disease and 59% of you with health as a start. You can monitor your health with the nanotechnology. Every 2 years to see the doctor is the best. I'm really not sure about the exact percentage.

Immunizations
Viruses' chemical warfare and our ancestors' contribution of medicine
Stats shows people's immune system gets weaker as people rely more on technology. Jonas Stalk used a dead virus' antibodies and a monkey's immune system to come up with an immunization. Other immunization acts as bates for the viruses such as mercury for Hep A or was it Hep B? Some immunizations act as mosquito repellents. When certain immunization is put to a part of the physical, the disease cannot affect that part of the physical.

Virus produces their own antibodies. Different antibodies of viruses can kill other viruses. People can use the viruses' antibodies and our ancestor's immune system to give an immunity. If people are able to master this technique, people can also use the viruses' antibodies to kill other viruses. People can use malaria to kill a more threatening disease such as AIDS. Then people can kill the malaria with the current malaria pills and natural medicine such as xango. This method can be used during emergency situations. People can use this for extreme viral conditions, which surgery cannot solve.

Identification
A doctor should be able to identify the patient's most obvious symptoms.
When the doctor find the symptoms, the doctor then write a prescription to reduce the symptoms.

Prevention of Symptons
1. debridement: if there are too much stuff to debride, debride the worst area. If everything is worse, skip this step. Then follow the rest of the steps.
2. use drugs to prevent enzymes from obtaining diseases. The drugs can also include special enzymes.
3. do not contact environmentally damaged places. Try to be in a bubble like the bubble boy
4. relax (do not go out of breath)
5. doctors may also give people a very small amount of radiation so that the hormones can slow down the symptoms. I heard in Mednewsexpress that people can ease breast cancer by using the body's immune system to sun's radiation. Large amount of hormones is not healthy for people because hormones actually takes a part of your reproductive system away. Small dosages of hormones at extreme situations is the best method.

Analysis
1)Videotape and record all of patient's life span for 24hrs a day, 7 days a week. If the patient do not have this, immediately do step

2)Take the patient's sample of spit, blood, tears, sweat, sound, urine, pee samples, ear wax, cheek swab, tongue swab, toenail, fingernail, hair, and dead and living cells. Then tape the people's daily routine. Take any other five-senses relations such as smell of the person's skin.

3)Below can be done by rich and poor countries. Rich countries can do either or both. Poor countries can do ii). Medium countries can choose to do either.
i)Do X-ray pictures for bones and muscles. Let patients move and take X-ray pictures after the moves. Do not do x-ray at fragil patients.
ii)Use a wood hammer to tap at bones and muscles. A sound-sensitive recorder records the vibrations of the patients.

4) Replay the recording results and draw a table. The table should have titles such as vibration time, the location of vibration, and the vibration loudness.

5) Repeat step 3. several times to healthy people. Choose people from variety of origins, ages and gender and come up with an average value. When you finish analyzing the place, come up with a summary to the whole data. One for one type of situation.

6) Gently press on the joints and major vein connections to get analysis of the blood flow rate. This can be determined from the help of traditional Chinese muscle, joints, and vein book. Stomach, kidneys, ovaries, and testicles must use advance technology such as a tiny camera with a string to see the inner images of the physical. The best method for this is nanotechnology.

7) Incorporate other methods such as white-blood cell, red-blood cell count, fat analysis, and hormone analysis is suppose to be done. Step 7) also include stuff like observing the biological patterns of DNA replication, enzyme usage in the patient, and the patient's quality of teeth. Countries can manage without step 7) If certain countries do, then the data may not be as accurate. Record all the data with tools you normally use.

The report
1) Compare result from 3. ii, 4. ,and 5., 6., and 7., to get the condition of the unhealthy person.
2) Then type up the conclusion from 1.
3) For 2., 3. i, and 6. just use what is available in all of humanity's Medicare to do the report.
4) The report have to be done under 5 minutes to a year maximum.
5) Doctors must continue to surveillance the patient's health after the doctor finish the report. Can be done by nanotechnology, notebook, writing tools, and cameras

After the report and the analysis, doctors should be able to identify the causes of the symptoms and the other important symptoms.

Knowledge to decide

Some drugs harm people with juice. When a person is ill, only drink water.

Small disease and infections (stages 1-2)
*Change your diet and exercise from time to time.
*Physical immune system support by the Spa treatment and
Chinese book of joints, muscles, veins and spa techniques to save common ideals. People can also try Tibet and Korean medicine too. Needles work also, but it increases the chance for skin irritation and contagious diseases. Do not follow the burning candles method unless all other medicine fails.

Medium Diseases (stages 2-3)
Use your knowledge to predict the disease's daily routine. Every disease have a pattern to infect a cell. A cold virus may just hang around in your nose and sometimes creep to your eyes at a certain time. Understand when they do that sort of actions. Please predict the time and the place of the cold flu virus. Then use small amount of drug dosage at the most worst conditions. The other part of the drug must increase the immune system. For example, if you want to kill bacteria, kill a couple of bacteria and then raise the temperature of the immune system. A virus will insert its gene to a live cell. Let that virus insert its gene into a cell, which will die. The take the dead cells out. "Taking dead cells out" can be formed when the person sneeze, spit or go to the washroom. Bacteria can also be added in this step to help certain patients. People can incorporate the drugs in by copying the painted codes of a virus or the chemical signals of certain functions of the body. People also can use the body's enzymes and some smaller chemicals to make some disease disappear. People can use chemicals to kill the virus and then use DNAase to incorporate the virus' genes.

Aids affects the immune system, so you have to separate the Aids virus from the immune system and then get the virus out. Others work too, however they damage the physical body to other diseases. This is done best by debridement methods.

Best formula for chemicals: natural chemicals such as healthy vegetables. These always have medium-complex medicine. Soy is also good. I know some materials is running out of stock, however you can hunt for these rare and effective compounds near developing countries with good crops.

Biological organisms such as a type of salmonella removes radiation. Once people remove the radiation, the waste product exits some areas. People also found out biological organisms can give constant production of enzymes and chemicals to people. If people have an adequate number of bacteria alive in their body, people can have constant amount of enzymes and chemicals. If you are sick of a disease like food poisoning and lactate loss, you can send bacteria to make the food poisoning bacteria disappear and make lactate for the body. The bacteria can be controlled by chemicals and other types of bacteria. People can also remove excess bacteria by excretion.

Bacteria also can kill some viruses. Organisms like nematodes and flatworms can also reduce the amount of viruses.

Human made enzymes are also adequate for this usage.

Complex disease (stages 3-5)
1.Freeze the person in a vacuum. A pump from Koolatron Foodsaver can do the vacuum effect.
2. Do surgery. You can implant it with a mechanical organ or another person's healthy organ. Biotechnology is perfered for this step.
3. Seal with gene therapy if it is a gene disease.
4. Make sure that the rest of the cells are normal. Immune system is stronger than the rest. If they are not, perform medium treatments.

For the above three cases, any missing parts can be regenerated using stem cells. Chemotherapy can work with either the second or third case, however it provide side effects. Chemotherapy is best with the complex case.

In the list format, it is as follows:

Some drugs harm people with juice. When a person is ill, only drink water.

1. i. pre-analysis/surveillance of disease and health
ii. prevention of symptoms
2. immune system increase or diet change and exercise change
3. i. physical joints, veins, and muscle cures
ii. take out main poisonous parts through barf, sneeze, spit...
4. protein/chemical treatment/enzymes/hormones/fat/
5. biological organisms (good for radioactive ill patients or with a hereditary disease)
6. i. surgery
ii. implant
iii. stem cell / regeneration to create other substances
7. biotechnology / virology
8. freezing, surgery, implant, stem cell, and biotechnology combination
9. combination (something used more often)

Mental Health (brain and the nerves)

Prevention of Mental Illness
1. nutrition and exercise
2. have a break to loose the tight brain muscles
3. do some intelligent puzzles and desirable brain activities to increase brain muscles
4. rest every 45 minutes or less
5. keep your physical wellness so the brain do not have to co-ordinate the physical and mental illness

Curing Method
1. Figure out stress.
2. Solve stress or avoid stress.
3. Take long trips to ease away the pain. During the trips, challenge yourself with some of the stress events to check out your status. If it is okay, then go back to your living quarters. If it is not, then do not go back.
4. If you do not have time for long trips, ask your doctor for a mental health note and take some time off.
5. If it is stress and you feel is overwhelm and hard to control, stop everything. Grab an object with your favourite colour. Please then think at one point of the object. Biting on sticks and concentrate on this 3D place will help.
6. Take a vacation and exercise.
7. If you have to use your head, make sure you get breaks. Every 30-45 min is good. Do start doing everything at the start. Do not rush to the last moment. Study, review, everyday. That is how to avoid stress. If your head still overcrowds, remember to exercise and study. The exercise will help you to avoid the insane voices in your head. This also work for skitsofrania. I can't spell today. Environmental conditions is as important as any other. Study in a non-polluted place. I once got a higher mark when I am studying in a room with cleaner air.

Exercise
1. stretch: it can replace Tai Ji
2. pick an intermediate activity to exercise. Ask an expert
3. perform those activity until your muscles feel sore
4. take a break. rest until your sore muscles become a bit loose and plungy
5. take a jog or walk to make your cardiovascular and whole body feel your new strength
6. restart from 1. To stop the cycle, you can stop after you performed step 4.

A lot of times, there is this crazy feeling of extra voices in your head. This is when you need to take a break and think about nothing. When I mean nothing, I mean, drop every concern, emotions, and ideas. Drop every care in the world and every thing until you feel nothing. Then use the physical parts to exercise. Massive amount of exercise will first transfer the amount of bloodflow from your head to your physical parts. There may be a pain. Do not let the pain overcome you and continue to exercise. After the era is over, the pain should be gone and you should feel much better than usual from the physical and the mental parts.

If you have both physical and mental illness, I suggest that you heal the physical illness and think about nothing when you are healing from the physical. Avoid loud places and unwanted surprises and sleep a lot. Always take the right amount of medication.

Society
Anyone can access the treatments as long as they know about them. Sometimes society will not treat people becasue of their differences. Due to people's voodoo beliefs and culture, certain people cannot obtain treatments. If you know about the treatments and obtain the treatments secretly, you can survive. More you know about medicine and more demands you make, the more chances you are likely to survive. Sometimes it is impossible to obtain the treatments because the culture do not allow this change. Sometimes, you cannot obtain the medicine secretly. So the best method is: "to have a healthy diet, exercise and mental prevention games such as Wii academy degree."
 

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Well, I did all of the pretending voices of an innocent and naive kid, providing answers. Before I completely exit the Canadian Content Forum, I want to reveal the following:

1. Everyone does have a job to do in this world. Everyone serves a function in the universe. Sometime people can choose their lifestyles. Those types of people wonder about what to do. The best thing to do is to try hard at something intermediate. If a person displays the person's best ability, other people doesn't have the chance to try out different things. If a person does not try, the person's true value become worthless. The best method is to choose something intermediate and try hard at that intermediate thing. This method can also reduce the "What am I suppose to do" confusion.

2. People are still teared away from living in an island/paradise or working. Since both working and paradise are in this world, I thought about the following:
*Finish the job first then retire in an island/paradise with some links to the society. People need some links because the most isolated retirees suffers and killed by others.
*In the job, try to do things "as is". When you are allowed to take a break or relax, please do so. If you are on a spasm, please gradually slow down your emotions and physical action. This is the exact logic of guys working underground. If a guy works underground for too long, he or she cannot directly see the light. The miners need some cloths to provide the miners with a gradual relaxation.
When you are not allowed to take a break or relax, please work until you are allowed. If you are not sure, agree with everyone. When you are agreeing with everyone, make sure your work is also finished. This balance is hard to achieve. Please try to find the balance. If a person cannot find the balance, finish the work without any opinions.
*Remember you work for some organization and the universes.
*Make sure the work is secure, acceptable for the public, and okay for the existence in the universes.
*Sometimes people cannot retire. I am sure: billions or trillions of years later, the person can retire.
*Eternal balance is achieved when the head is only observing the patterns of the universes and nature. This is a part of retirement. I am sorry about my naive line about achieving counterbalances. Counterbalances provide people with a clean and clear environment. The clean and clear environment is not a must, however the achievement of the clean and clear environment can benefit many different people.

3. Important Things To Remember:
*To lower a pollution, clean gradually. The Gradual removal of poison can clean and help a person
*To care less about pollution, gradually add small poisons. The human body can adjust to the small accumulations of the poison. This gradual step of poisonous addition can make people stronger and contain better immune system.
*Don't need to fix at every detail as long as there are air conditioners for harsh weather, helicopters for relief, medicine places, food lots & food, tooth cleaners, tooth brush, toilet paper, toilet, washing basins, weapons for police/military, defense weapons for ordinary people, lab stuff, laws, regulations, and the rest....too much details is a burden...too little detail is doing practically nothing. People need to protect basic organic stuff without chemical treatment. This will help people to provide an alternative for the Toronto Meat Maple Leaf Outbreak 2008.
*The important habits should be protected. Importance depends on the definition of the universes and the humans
*The other areas does not have to be clean. There can be random projects such as a flowerbed or some other sort of green areas for exercising and recreation. There can also be artificial lands such as artificial forests and gardens for tourism.

4.If you are not sure, please try out various situations. If one situation is something you can never avoid, this thing is what you really need to do. Once you figured out what you really need to do, you must accept the deed. Then, you must do this deed. If you feel your contribution is minor, the contribution isn't. Most of the time, minor contribution isn't broadcast. Important contributions can affect the past, future, and present into what the doer what the past, future and present to be.

For example: I can have a variety of eggs and milk. The eggs are cheaper than the milk. If I choose the cheaper eggs for breakfast, I can have enough money to help other people. This step also influence others to make a decision. A kid may take this action as an example and try to save the world. Another example: Stefan Theil...Weird guy.

If you need to understand what you need to do next, you can study history. History has repetitive patterns, which will help each character what he or she is suppose to do. When you find out what to do, ask a logical person to solve the problem together. Please do not fear what you do and confess everything to your logical person. If your logical person cannot correctly analyze and solve the situation, ask another person. If you really don't know, wait for the situation to change.The different situations may indicate what went wrong in your analysis...

I updated pg.15's recycling stuff...I am working on sites about the further details of life's mysteries. The name of the site is: "Common Words".

Sorry about the late stuff. My computer broke down and the internet wasn't working. I had stress and was unconscious with my eyes open for more than 12 hours.
http://zoltaeio.bravehost.com
 
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I thought I'd take a break from the repetitive nature of debunking climate deniers, who repeat the same falsehoods ad nauseum. So I looked into some more of the solutions aspect today.

From a new paper I was reading today, recently published in the journal Energy Efficiency:
This paper reviews the literature concerning the energy savings that can be achieved through optimized building shape and form, improved building envelopes, improved efficiencies of individual energyusing devices, alternative energy using systems in buildings, and through enlightened occupant behavior and operation of building systems. Cost information is also provided. Both new buildings and retrofits are discussed. Energy-relevant characteristics of the building envelope include window-to-wall ratios, insulation levels of the walls and roof, thermal resistance and
solar heat gain coefficient of windows, degree of air tightness to prevent unwanted exchange of air between the inside and outside, and presence or absence of operable windows that connect to pathways for passive ventilation. Provision of a high-performance envelope is the single most important factor in the design of lowenergy buildings, not only because it reduces the heating and cooling loads that the mechanical system must satisfy but also because it permits alternative (and low-energy) systems for meeting the reduced loads. In many cases, equipment with significantly greater efficiency than is currently used is available. However,the savings available through better and alternative energy-using systems (such as alternative heating, ventilation, cooling, and lighting systems) are generally much larger than the savings that can be achieved by using more efficient devices (such as boilers, fans, chillers, and lamps). Because improved building envelopes and improved building systems reduce the need for mechanical heating and cooling equipment, buildings with dramatically lower energy use (50–75% savings) often entail no greater construction cost than conventional design while yielding significant annual energy-cost savings.

Harvey, D. L. D., 2009, Reducing energy use in the buildings sector: measures, costs, and examples. Energy Efficiency, 2: 139-163.

Table 2 is worth a look. Higher efficiency buildings in Vancouver, cheaper than conventional building design. Conventional design comes in at $620/ m2, while the high efficiency design comes in at $550/ m2. On energy savings, the conventional building uses 180 kWh/m2/year, while the high efficiency building uses only 100 kWh/m2/year.

Substantial savings, and at a reduced cost of construction. Win, win, win.