Simple Savings
In which an NY Times writer asks the important question: Do you need all that water to boil pasta?
Google Your Power Usage
From Google’s Energy Information: “At Google we’re committed to helping enable a future where access to personal energy information helps everyone make smarter energy choices. To get started, we’re working on a tool called Google PowerMeter which will show consumers their electricity consumption in near real-time in a secure iGoogle Gadget. We think PowerMeter will [...]
What’s Fluid Imagination’s Carbon Footprint?
From Slate’s Green my blog.: “Jonathan Koomey…has now estimated how much energy it takes for one gigabyte of data to travel over the Internet….on average, between nine and 16 kWh of electricity to transmit a gigabyte of data. What does that mean for your personal blog? In terms of direct pollution, the impact is likely [...]
Waxman Takes Over Energy
From NY Times’ Longtime Head of House Energy Panel Is Ousted: “The 255-House Democratic conference voted 137 to 122 to accept the recommendation of its steering committee and agreed to replace Dingell, 82, a long-time friend of the U.S. auto industry, with Waxman, a 69-year-old Californian anxious to ease global warming, a top concern of [...]
“Talk about cutting their balls off”
From NY Times’s Saudis Vow to Ignore OPEC Decision to Cut Production: “Hours after suffering a rare setback in a negotiating session at OPEC’s headquarters, Saudi Arabian officials assured world markets on Wednesday that they would ignore the wishes of other cartel members and continue to pump plenty of oil…Saudi negotiators publicly endorsed that position, [...]
Remember: R&D Is Figured In BEFORE Profits Are Disseminated
From Wired News’s book review, In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution: “The last big innovation in energy production, [Friedman] observes, was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. ‘Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough was in 1955?’ [...]
Are Americans Dumb? Or Is There Something Else At Play Here?
From National Journal’s Waning Warming Debate: “According to a survey from ABC News, Planet Green and Stanford University, fewer than half — 47 percent — of Americans consider global warming an important issue to them personally, down from 52 percent in April 2007. Although a vast majority still think the planet is warming — 8 [...]
I’ll Take A Tire Gauge Over A No Vote
From Tom Friedman’s Eight Strikes and You’re Out: “On July 30…the Senate was voting for the eighth time in the past year on a broad, vitally important bill that would have extended the investment tax credits for installing solar energy and the production tax credits for building wind turbines and other energy-efficiency systems. Senator McCain [...]
Yet Again, Justin Was Right
About ten days ago, Justin yelled at me for using a gas-powered lawn mower, and I took his words to heart. So yesterday, I mowed the lawn with the rusty old push mower I found in the carriage house. I also did a little research, and found that Manual lawn mowers making a comeback: “Exact [...]
It’s Green To Be The King
From Vermont Commons’s If Only I Were King Of Vermont: “Vermont needs to become energy and food independent. We have plenty of wind, solar, biomass, and hydro-power resource-potential to meet our needs. We have plenty of agricultural and water resources. We have plenty of smart and motivated people. What’s missing? The problem is that most [...]
