Elon Musk says “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” 🚨👀
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🤡 ESG is a joke 🤡
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It's all scams. The ESG score is at best just a common description covering many of them. Green initiatives scams, CRT scams, and even engineering standards are scams.
With the engineering standards, some examples I can think of;
LEED construction standard - The goal is to reduce the carbon footprint of new construction. So, you think they are reducing energy consumption and increasing efficiency, which is fine in theory. In practice, they would consider a product that is 2-3X the materials (copper, steel, aluminum, etc) in order to reduce the size of the pump to use less current... that is efficient ONLY if you are looking at electrical usage, not the energy required to mine, form, and assemble the equipment. Further, with all the necessary monitoring equipment, scanners, sensors, etc, and by piling more pieces of smaller equipment instead of larger equipment in lower quantities, each piece of equipment might be more efficient, but the end is that the building would use significantly more power than without implementing that standard.
General electrical standards have done similarly; it used to be a closed 3-phase system (delta), but now the new standards require a grounded neutral because that was the easiest way to deal with the harmonics that come from electronics. In effect, the electrical grid is being converted into a giant antenna system. (I hope I'm explaining this properly, my work isn't at grid-scale, just hoping I don't get schooled)
One thing I have noticed about America is your use of wooden construction. I know wood is a renewable resource in theory but I have to wonder at the lifespan of a lot of the new construction, here in the UK we mainly use brick/breeze block construction. I grew up in a Victorian house which was built in the 1870's. It had a lot of issues. As far as we could tell it hadn't had any major work done on it since before the second world war besides possibly having the slate roof replaced with concrete tiles in the late 1970's. My dad and me spent a decade refurbishing it. In theory I see no reason after our work it shouldn't last another 130 years. The only major work it might need is probably replacing its current concrete roof tiles - possibly some time around 2040. The current electrics and plumbing in it should last into the 2070's.
The other thing I would give brick construction over wooden is greater thermal mass, maybe not quite as warm but in hot weather much more temperature stable. Without air conditioning even in 30 degree weather the downstairs in my old house would be quite comfortable. Almost no one has air conditioning in Europe except for commercial buildings.
If I were looking to reduce emissions from building I would build everything to last out of high quality materials. Bricks may take more energy to manufacture and transport but a brick building will last hundreds of years if looked after and create a more temperature stable environment.
In the US you could probably save copper for your electrical installations by taking a leaf out of our regulations. We use 240V ring mains in most domestic situations. Sometimes you see radial circuits as "ad ons" after the fact. It was set up that way after the war to save copper because it was being rationed.
You raise some good issues and will be speaking out of school since I know little about building materials.
I agree that building materials are really more about cheapness, availability, and ease of construction than any other consideration. The common argument is that those older construction methods would simply be too expensive to be practical.
One thing I do know is that anything less than 4 stories tall can be made of wood and larger is steel and concrete.
You are correct, by increasing the voltage you lower current and can keep copper thinner. That itself is on the low end of the issues with the standards (even though a lot of the standards do represent legitimate guidelines for safety, I was referring more to the current trends).
The way those trends are going, HVAC will start to not be feasible in about 10-15 years.... at a point you can't squeeze more energy out of a system than is put into it.
This ties to the concept of the educated idiots.