{"id":14559,"date":"2015-06-24T13:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14559"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T18:47:30","slug":"surprisingly-government-numbers-dont-bear-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/24\/surprisingly-government-numbers-dont-bear-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly, Government Numbers Don&#8217;t Bear Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/national-and-international\/home-efficiency-upgrades-fall-short-don-t-pay-study\/article_9b9eb1fa-bbba-5c04-8670-071d69a52c98.html\" target=\"_blank\">Home efficiency upgrades fall short, don&#8217;t pay: Study<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Home efficiency measures such as installing new windows or replacing insulation deliver such a small fraction of their promised energy savings that they may not save any money over the long run, according to the surprising conclusion of a University of Chicago study.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which used data from a random sample of 30,000 low-income Michigan households that were eligible for an Energy Department home weatherization program, found that the projected energy savings were 2.5 times greater than actual savings. As a result, energy bills didn&#8217;t decline nearly enough to eventually pay for the initial cost of the upgrades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is that the real world is screwy,&#8221; said Michael Greenstone, an energy economist and head of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. &#8220;The models project much larger savings than are realized by homeowners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strangely enough, projections and modeling designed to influence or dictate behavior don&#8217;t bear up under actual scrutiny and real world experience.  Just another place where science and government statistics diverge.  Well, no, I guess it&#8217;s the same place, the one called &#8220;everywhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home efficiency upgrades fall short, don&#8217;t pay: Study: Home efficiency measures such as installing new windows or replacing insulation deliver such a small fraction of their promised energy savings that they may not save any money over the long run, according to the surprising conclusion of a University of Chicago study. The study, which used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14562,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14559\/revisions\/14562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}