Tag: renewable energy
member name: Ethan G.
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April 30, 2007 10:15 PM EDT --
I’ve long thought that the tendency to divide all political issues into “conservative” and “liberal,” and to then identify them with either the Republican or Democratic Party . . .
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August 13, 2007 09:08 PM EDT --
The United States is full of technological nooks and crannies, bright new ideas and old ones that have never been fully utilized, oodles of potential innovation. An idea is useless, however, unless . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:54 PM EST --
Declaring the need for energy independence, President Bush has proposed a budget with funding for an array of programs [Advanced Energy Initiative] some of which have great promise. Yet from an environmental . . .
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October 08, 2007 07:04 PM EDT --
This past weekend I embarked on a tour of solar homes in the Washington, DC area, which lets you see how real people use trend-setting environmental technology. The tour’s most prominent feature . . .
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December 31, 2007 08:25 PM EST --
We are living in a time of escalating extremes. Climate change devastation may be arriving faster than expected, but wondrous new technologies may allow us to stop the worst.
Global climate skeptics . . .
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March 24, 2008 03:30 PM EDT --
The word is now out: many biofuels, such as corn ethanol, actually cause global warming according to two studies published in Science in February. Why? Their production leads to clearing of . . .
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May 05, 2008 02:35 PM EDT --
Global warming is in the middle of a ten-year pause according to an article in Nature . Because this is a peer reviewed scientific article published in a major journal it must be taken . . .
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September 15, 2008 05:44 PM EDT --
Energy independence and green energy are often referred to as though they are the same thing. However this is far from the truth. True, if we have 100 percent green energy we have energy independence, . . .
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December 03, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
The Kyoto Treaty, intended to decrease global warming, is set to expire in 2012. Leaders from around the world are meeting in Bali , Indonesia to discuss what will replace it.
The Kyoto Treaty . . .
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June 17, 2008 09:07 AM EDT --
Renewable energy is expanding voraciously and will do so even faster, according to experts at a Worldwatch Institute panel ( Tipping Point ). Wind power is already in the midst of an explosion, . . .
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September 17, 2008 12:02 PM EDT --
The house passed an energy bill last night: http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/09/17.php#21306. I don't know all the details, but I know that it allows offshore drilling, extends renewable energy . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:40 PM EDT --
All of the bad news and horror stories about the environment and climate change can make one feel hopeless. What is one person to do? It helps to realize that we are all in this together, . . .
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October 22, 2007 10:18 PM EDT --
An array of exotic homes recently sprang up on the Washington Mall, with numerous panels and appendages and lush vegetation. This was the 2007 Solar Decathlon , which challenged twenty teams of . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
The fight against cataclysmic global climate change and for energy independence has many fronts. Innovative technologies are being developed by businesses large and small. One such company . . .
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November 10, 2008 04:40 PM EST --
Upon swearing the oath of office on January 20, Obama will immediately face three major crises: The economy; the multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and on terrorism; and the environment. Of the . . .
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August 18, 2008 01:43 PM EDT --
Unlike most environmentalists, I would support drilling for oil along America’s coastlines, as I’ve written before. However such drilling needs to be part of a comprehensive package including renewable . . .
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November 24, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
Automobiles, Innovation, and the Obama Economic Plan
The real action in automobile innovation has not been coming from the Big Three, according to a recent NPR Science Friday . Rather, small, . . .
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January 05, 2009 06:01 PM EST --
We need to move aggressively toward clean coal! We can do so by removing global warming gasses and storing them indefinitely. So argued a coal spokesman on a recent Diane Rehm show . . . .
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July 13, 2008 09:32 PM EDT --
Due to galloping prices, instability in the Middle East, and environmental dangers, energy is a huge issue in the presidential campaign. So what are McCain and Obama's positions and how effective . . .
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January 23, 2009 02:52 PM EST --
Obama’s Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, has ideas about how to handle our energy problems. Lots and lots of ideas. And he’s willing to work on all of them.
This points to a potential schizophrenia . . .
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