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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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246 Engineering Response to Climate Change
2. Real time feedback: Experts in education have long known that
immediate feedback is a critical element of behavior change. Much
of the discussion about efciency has been about the efciency of
appliances, but behavior change has an even larger potential for
energy conservation (see Lutzenhiser 1993)—that is, whole con-
sumption categories could be eliminated. Automakers such as BMW
have, for over 20 years, provided a real-time fuel efciency indica-
tor just below the speedometer—eliciting permanent annoyance or
a lighter touch on the pedal from BMW owners. In a similar fashion,
it is thought that ...
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