{"id":664,"date":"2007-10-12T07:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/another-conservation-game\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T07:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:29:18","slug":"another-conservation-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/another-conservation-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Conservation Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Chevron<\/a>. In July <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/07\/16\/my-abodo\/\" target=\"_blank\" >we wrote about My Abodo<\/a>, a consumer-focused exercise that enabled one to make choices about how they live then to see the impact of those changes on the environment around them. In retrospect, it was a very cool exercise and <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/07\/16\/my-abodo\/\" target=\"_blank\" >you can still see our little MeV home we created<\/a> &#8211; optimized for lowest level of impact.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nToday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Chevron<\/a> has gotten into the act with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.willyoujoinus.com\/\">WillYouJoinUs.com<\/a>, more a Sim City approach to the same problem where you, the Mayor and CFO make decisions about energy supply then watch the impacts on economics, environment, and security through a few simulation phases over time. A screen shot of MeV City is located below the jump.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s great to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Chevron<\/a> get engaged in this area, their bread is obviously still buttered by fossil fuels, but in the last few months they seem to be getting on the green bandwagon. Would it surprise you to learn that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Chevron<\/a> is the world&#8217;s largest geothermal electricity provider? Interesting, I&#8217;d think that geothermal power would be an option on their game. Oh well&#8230;<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/mev-city.jpg\" alt=\"MeV City from Chevron Energy Simulator\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTip of the hat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.didntyouhear.com\/2007\/10\/12\/its-tgi-friday-energyville\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Didn&#8217;t You Hear?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, from Chevron. In July we wrote about My Abodo, a consumer-focused exercise that enabled one to make choices about how they live then to see the impact of those changes on the environment around them. In retrospect, it was a very cool exercise and you can still see our little MeV home we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}