The Energy Wasters Report

The Australian, one of Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers, reported recently that overuse of air conditioning is one of Australia’s biggest forms of energy waste. A survey called the Pilot BeGreen Office Audit, found that 74 per cent of office workplaces ‘always’ use air conditioning (apparently 7 by 24).  The article cited an expert claiming that AC often accounts for half an office building’s energy consumption. The expert added that the first reports on energy-saving buildings in Australia were written in 1908 but action was only now starting to occur.