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Brains or Brawn: Solar Energy & Massachusetts’ economic future

April 25th, 2007 · Comments Off on Brains or Brawn: Solar Energy & Massachusetts’ economic future

Thanks to gmoke for the tips to the Boston Globe’s ‘green’ articles on Earth Day.  Green Light is subtitled “How to make Massachusetts the Silicon Valley of eco-energy”. This article begins: “Since the beginning of his gubernatorial campaign, Deval Patrick has made clean energy a pet issue …” “Pet issue”?  Well, perhaps regular readers might […]

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Tags: alternative energy · business practice · Solar Energy

CHPing our way toward a better energy future …

April 25th, 2007 · 6 Comments

No, not the California Highway Patrol (nor CHiPs), Cogeneration (Combined-Heat Power)  is combining the production of electricity and heat.  Right now, major US electricity production has waste heat that is that, waste. Tremendous opportunities exist in the Untied States for converting this “waste” to something useful.  And, well, in America’s  homes, the (just-finished winter season)  […]

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Tags: chp · Energy · energy efficiency