Tag: energy
member name: Sam Carana
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April 08, 2007 03:30 AM EDT --
There are many things we can all do to reduce our contributions to global warming. Here are ten things politians can do now to make a difference:
1. Tax energy supply that adds extra heat to global . . .
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October 06, 2008 03:56 AM EDT --
Last month, Hawaii received $1.7 million in grants to modernize its electric grids to accommodate an influx of renewable energy, with an eye toward electric cars.
Why Hawaii? The geothermal power . . .
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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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January 20, 2009 09:36 PM EST --
Here are two parts of President Barack Obama ’s Inaugural Address that I found particularly interesting:
"Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the . . .
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March 20, 2009 04:49 AM EDT --
U.S. Department of energy Announcement
President Obama Announces $2.4 Billion in Funding to Support Next Generation Electric Vehicles
DOE Support for Advanced Battery Manufacturing and . . .
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September 18, 2009 04:03 AM EDT --
First Solar has reached a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China.
The facilities will cover 25 square . . .
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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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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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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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May 28, 2009 09:21 AM EDT --
What will power your next car? Will it be gasoline, diesel, perhaps mixed with biofuel? Or will it be electricity? In case electricity will power your next car, how will it be produced? From coal, natural . . .
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July 22, 2009 02:36 AM EDT --
The Hydrogen Initiative
Ex-President G. W. Bush loved photo opportunities that portrayed him as an advocate of hydrogen cars. The photo on the right shows Bush inspecting a scooter powered by solid . . .
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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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April 30, 2009 02:09 AM EDT --
NASA scientists are proposing algae bags as a way to produce renewable energy that does not compete with agriculture for land or fresh water. It uses algae to produce biofuel from sewage, using nutrients . . .
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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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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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December 03, 2008 03:23 AM EST --
To capture more sunlight, solar panels are typically positioned to face the sun as best as possible. More expensive solar arrays are mechanized to slowly move throughout the day, keeping the panels . . .
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May 21, 2009 08:32 AM EDT --
Will America be a desert by 2100? Or Africa, India or China, for that matter?
Chances are, according to MIT projections , that global median surface temperature will rise by 9.4 o F (5.2 o C) by 2100, . . .
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