In response to that article I posted this review on Moodle:
This article discusses the issue of wasteful use of electricity by Australians and how to subsequently tackle that. The solar adoption of solar panels in many Australian homes successfully reduces electricity load from the grid by a significant amount. Consequently there is now a significant peak in use of grid electricity at night. Pears argued that much of energy used is wasted, unnecessary, or at least preventable. To reduce this peak load, he suggested that homes should use the most efficient appliances and artificial lighting. Another way would to reduce the need of using such appliances, for example by keeping the house cool at daytime so that cooling will not be necessary at night. These measures will save a considerable amount of money from each household and billions of dollars across the country.
Pears supported his views and arguments thoroughly, using and analysing graphs from various reputable sources. That humanises the seemingly complicated statistics regarding energy use into easily understandable facts. In addition, his suggestions regarding how to reduce evening energy consumption at home are also logical and easy to grasp.
However, he did not truly detail how the Australian government or other institutions can should help households in reducing their electricity loads. Even though he did provide precedent from California, it might not work as well in Australia as it most likely is a different environment in terms of living habits, bureaucracy, and even the fuels used in generating the grid electricity. It will be fascinating to read what Pears think what scheme would work in the local Australian context.
Based on the UNSW requirements it seems to be a decent go at writing a critical review. Yet we must self-evaluate our own writing based on the marking rubric inside the course outline and based on that I can see that my attempt was very lacking. It seems that I must also use my own research and assumed knowledge outside of what is written in the article. I do not fully understand what "effective and academic quality written expression" really refer to but I intend to find out. I can apply all this into the coming report assessments so therefore improving my writing skills will be a worthwhile effort
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