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Behaviour: Seeing heat saves energy

Nature Energy volume 1, Article number: 15013 (2016) Cite this article

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Household energy conservation can help to significantly lower energy consumption. Visual cues provided by thermal imaging of heat loss in buildings are now shown to increase energy conserving behaviours and implementations among homeowners more effectively than just performing carbon footprint audits.

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Figure 1: Example thermal images of households.

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  1. Linda Steg is at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2/1, 9712 TS Groningen, the Netherlands.,

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Steg, L. Behaviour: Seeing heat saves energy. Nat Energy 1, 15013 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nenergy.2015.13

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