Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill — and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities. — Martha Beck
An earlier article in this series — What a Decision-making Process for Achieving 100% Renewable Energy Might Look Like — showed that a third step in a decision-making process for adopting a renewable energy option might look decision-makers comparing benefits of energy options available for adoption.
The most recent article in this series — How to Evaluate Benefits Delivered by an Energy Option — showed how anyone can evaluate benefits delivered by an energy option, to compare those benefits — on an apples-to-apples basis — with benefits delivered by other energy options.
If you think of an energy option as a bundle of performance benefits, economic benefits, environmental preservation benefits, supply security benefits and risk mitigation benefits, as shown in Figure 1:
then decision-makers comparing benefits of energy options that provide the same energy service (electric power, heating & cooling, transportation) might look like decision-makers comparing those benefits on a “benefit-to-benefit” basis, as shown in Figure 2:
Decision-makers comparing benefits of such energy options might look like decision-makers comparing such benefits on a “bundle-to-bundle” basis — to identify energy options that deliver greatest benefits for energy service users — as shown in Figure 3:
Decision-makers comparing benefits of such energy options might look like decision-makers using their comparisons of such benefits to persuade themselves and make consensus decisions what energy options they want to adopt to deliver greatest benefits for energy service users.
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In the next article in this Reversing Global Warming series, I’ll show you what decision-makers persuading themselves what energy options they want to adopt might look like.
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