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Base on the excerpt above, he is likely PO aware. However, I think he favors techno-triumphalism solutions over education of PO and force conservation. Maybe I'm reading into this too much.
Cinch
No, not at all. In the youtube video that I linked in yesterday's drumbeat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfLaQUD86Mw
he showed the graph that shows energy consumption and happiness (from which one can conclude that we could cut back a lot). He also talked about energy efficiency of appliances.
Agree with ericy 100%, but even more:
1) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is the long-time home of Arther Rosenfeld and others who have done great work on energy efficiency over the years. LBL is one of the world's top centers for work on energy efficiency, and if somehow people haven't heard of Rosenfeld, it's worth reading that webpage and looking at some of his recent presentations.
2) Here's what Chu said of Rosenfeld when the latter got an Enrico Fermi award.
3) So, an ex-Bell Labs guy [we overlapped timewise, although I never met him] has been 20+ years in Northern California (which cares about energy efficiency) at Stanford and Berkeley (both of which are quite intense on the subject), and since 2004 has run the lab famous for its energy-efficiency work for decades...
I don't think we have to worry too much that he'll ignore efficinecy.