{"id":23106,"date":"2017-09-20T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23106"},"modified":"2017-09-20T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:54:09","slug":"catching-up-on-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=23106","title":{"rendered":"Catching up on Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was exhausted last Wednesday after the Primary election when we rescheduled our Business meeting. I began hallucinating when we got to a turgid conversation about energy savings. I saw Loren Martell in the back of the room leave the meeting and I decided to leave the meeting and thank him for running despite his disappointing fifth place.<\/p>\n<p>But then I decided I really didn&#8217;t have it in me to go back to the meeting. I could catch it later on youtube after all.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t even follow up the next day in reading Jana Hollingsworth&#8217;s story in the Trib. Its under a stack of partially digested Tribs in the corner of my office. I did hear from Art later that it was a good story. That&#8217;s quite a tribute from Art. Well I just read it and it is a good story about our District&#8217;s energy use. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4327466-energy-use-duluth-schools-awarded-savings-dont-measure-predictions\">I recommend it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I just finished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4NKZMnbcZ8\">listening to the hour I missed of the meeting<\/a>. It was a very thorough discussion which is easier to consume in Jana&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>One point I&#8217;d like to harp on like the cranky guy I am &#8211; We were sold a bill of goods by Johnston Controls. Our energy savings are one-tenth what they predicted. The problem with this is that to make up for this <em>we have had to cut staff which was our other means of making ends meet<\/em> on JCI&#8217;s unfulfilled promises. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say that JCI doesn&#8217;t know the energy business:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4323\/35536127253_b3d4c5de9c_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the photos I took of the Shanghai skyline. That soaring building on the far right is one that was equipped with JCI technology. Its impressive. I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/tech\/tallest-tower-in-china.html\">a PBS NOVA program<\/a> about JCI&#8217;s role in building and equipping the air units. I guess its easier to fiddle with tiny little Duluth than the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was exhausted last Wednesday after the Primary election when we rescheduled our Business meeting. I began hallucinating when we got to a turgid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23107,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23106\/revisions\/23107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}