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energy
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February 20, 2009
U.S. electricity down 0.9%
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Though not as dramatically as oil use (12.8% decrease) , November 2008 electricity generation in the U.S. was 0.9% lower than in November 20...
December 10, 2008
Efficiency 3 times cheaper than wind, payback in 1 year
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Gary Parke, chief executive of energy services firm Evolve Energy, writes in Evolve Energy (Dec. 10, 2008): Energy efficiency has often been...
October 16, 2008
Oil and coal/nuclear/wind: nothing to do with each other
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The debate last night between Senators Obama and McCain illustrated a common laziness in lumping all energy together, failing to differentia...
February 2, 2007
AWEA: Wind energy capacity passed 1% of U.S. total in 2006
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The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) issued a press release last Tuesday boasting that 2,454 MW of new wind energy capacity was erect...
January 13, 2007
Unintended consequences
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Industrialists are seizing the opportunity created by the successful effort of many environmentalists to scare everyone shitless about globa...
January 12, 2007
Give Conservation Another Chance
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By John H. Herbert, Baltimore Sun, Jan. 1, 2007: Since 1997, utility demand-side investments such as efficient lighting programs, heat recov...
January 6, 2007
Noam Mohr on meat-eating and the environment
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The global costs of a meat diet The Green Times (Penn Environmental Group), Spring 1997 If you care about the environment, you had better b...
January 2, 2007
Energy choice: drive cars or eat meat
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Excerpts from "Ethics of Biofuels," Sharon Astyk, 28 Dec 2006 (click the title of this post): [I]f ethanol means that poor countri...
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