World Statistics Day: 6 Statistics from the Resource Efficiency Collective
For World Statistics Day 2022, we are celebrating by sharing some important and some lighthearted statistics from the Resource Efficiency Collective.
Efficiency
Low emission building control with zero-shot reinforcement learning
Heating and cooling systems in buildings account for 31% of global energy use. Many of these systems are regulated by Rule Based Controllers (RBCs) that neither maximise energy...
Mat-dp: An open-source Python model for analysing material demand projections and their environmental implications, which result from building low-carbon systems
Materials are essential for creating the systems used in everyday life, yet, manufacturing materials emits large quantities of greenhouse gases (GHG). Emissions from material production have been estimated...
Toward a sustainable materials system
Global annual material use reached 90 billion tons in 2017 and may double by 2050. This unsustainable growth has impacts on everything from landscape degradation and habitat loss...
Global Fuel Economy Initiative
Matteo Craglia and Leonardo Paoli from the Resource Efficiency Collective worked with colleagues at the International Energy Agency to publish the latest Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) working...
Technical limits for energy conversion efficiency
To reach climate targets, unprecedented levels of energy efficiency improvements are required. To prioritise investments, it is necessary to know the energy saving potential associated with each action....
Do technical improvements lead to real efficiency gains? Disaggregating changes in transport energy intensity
This paper uses driver reported data and shows that the real fuel efficiency of new cars in Great Britain has improved by far less than widely reported. This...