Tag: energy
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December 11, 2007 10:24 PM EST --
Britain's secretary of state for business, John Hutton, plans to identify sites in British waters for u p to 7,000 offshore wind turbines, averaging one wind turbine every half-mile around the . . .
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December 13, 2007 09:17 AM EST --
Friends! As we enter this new era, we face the giant task of transforming society, by changing the very fabric of our economy, all in a mere decade. That fabric is energy, currently supplied largely . . .
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February 16, 2008 06:41 AM EST --
For more than a year, a panel of 18 engineers, technologists and futurists looked at ways to improve life on Earth. They came up with 14 Grand Engineering Challenges , featured at the National Academy . . .
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February 29, 2008 04:05 AM EST --
Lights consume about 2 trillion kilowatt-hours annually, or one-eighth of all electric power. Globally, lighting is equal in emission contribution to about 70% of the world's passenger vehicles. Of . . .
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November 19, 2008 07:41 AM EST --
Extract: As we shift away from fossil fuel and as the number of wind turbines increases, more and more people are calling for a Supergrid - high capacity links carrying electricity between the major . . .
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September 29, 2007 03:56 AM EDT --
Last Friday, President George W. Bush urged delegates of the world's 16 biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to agree on an approach to deal with global warming. "By next summer, we will . . .
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February 22, 2008 02:12 AM EST --
The image on the right shows the Anderson Mill, in Travis County, Texas, which was built in the 1850s as a corn mill. Since ancient times, waterwheels and wind mills have been used to grind grain to produce . . .
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April 10, 2008 08:37 AM EDT --
Black carbon has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing estimates, according to a review study in the journal Nature Geoscience .
According to the study, . . .
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January 15, 2008 02:35 AM EST --
Electric vehicles can cut greenhouse gas emissions in two ways. They are clean and efficient. By acting as storage capacity, they can also make the electric grid more efficient.
Electric cars are . . .
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October 01, 2007 06:18 AM EDT --
Globally, wind power generation more than quadrupled between 2000 and 2006. But while wind power is making steady progress in Europe, the U.S. gets less than 1% of its electricity from wind power,
Spain . . .
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September 17, 2007 08:56 PM EDT --
Hydrogen fuel cells constitute an efficient way to store energy and as such they form an important component in our struggle to contain global warming. Hydrogen fuel cells are a convenient and clean . . .
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December 28, 2007 03:38 AM EST --
The best way to deal with global warming is a FeeBate policy. This works fast and effectively, is ideology- and budget-neutral and has the least risk of feeding a wasteful bureaucracy.
In essence, a . . .
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December 24, 2007 05:23 AM EST --
Can electric vehicles supply power to homes? The short answer is yes! Electric vehicles can be connected to the electric grid, not only to draw electricity from the grid (in order to recharge their . . .
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April 24, 2008 01:32 AM EDT --
In discussions about global warming, many are reluctant to make 'the first move'. The coal industry points at figures by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), showing that coal accounted . . .
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May 22, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
Rising Sun for Electric Cars
Originally published 04/22/08 (Earth Day)
by Roy Morrison in Policy Innovations
Earth Day 2008 is a time to ask: Is my sustainability work consonant . . .
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