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Entries from June 2007

Solar mapping …

June 26th, 2007 · Comments Off on Solar mapping …

Want to take a virtual tour in the world of distributed power?    Thanks to Equity Green, I learned the news that San Francisco Launches Solar Energy Mapping Website. A solar mapping web tool was recently launched for the city of San Francisco.  Its actually pretty cool and addicting.  I liked scrolling over all the houses […]

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Tags: San Francisco · solar · Solar Energy

Energy Bookshelf: Urban Future

June 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Truth be told, anyone with their eyes open is overwhelmed by the wealth of interesting, insightful, and high quality material out there — in soft (blogosphere) and hard (books, etc) copy.  This drives us, all too often, into stovepiping our focus, gaining ever more knowledge about an ever narrower focus area. Our challenges — as […]

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Tags: cities · Energy · energy efficiency · General

Rollerblading to a PHEV future?

June 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Sometimes we learn in rather interesting ways.  Well, to give credit where credit is due, I bumped into Rollerblading glimpse of the future credit Roller-blading in the Google parking lot led to early awareness that something was up when it came to Google and PHEVs, as solar panels were going up over parking spots with […]

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Tags: PHEV

Big news in the wind …

June 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Big news in the wind …

Or, well, perhaps we should not, big news in wind. T Boone Pickens, of oil fame, has announced plans to build the world’s largest wind farm, with two to four gigawatts of name plate capacity.  This wind farm is proposed for Texas, home of the world’s currently largest wind farm: the 735.5-megawatt Horse Hollow project […]

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Tags: renewable energy · wind power

Bipartisan sanity? Bills re plug-in hybrids …

June 18th, 2007 · Comments Off on Bipartisan sanity? Bills re plug-in hybrids …

Perhaps we need to rub our eyes, but it looks like there are outbreaks of bipartisan sanity emerging on energy issues.  A just introduced bill to promote plug-in hybrids is a poster child of sane policy concepts. From co-sponsor Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “With the rapid industrialization of countries like India and China, the demand for […]

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Tags: automobiles · hybrid · PHEV

GoreOPhobia, the WashPost, and Howell’s pseudoApologia

June 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

A week ago, the Washington Post Outlook section featured, under the banner “FACT CHECK”, a malicious attack on Al Gore starting off with flagrantly false information. The outrage floursished … As per Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington […]

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Tags: Energy

China stops Liquid Coal, changes ethanol

June 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on China stops Liquid Coal, changes ethanol

The Peoples Republic of China (PRC) looks to have just taken major decisions related to CTL and biofuels, ones that could have major impact on future energy (and pollution) developments there. Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) / Liquid Coal is currently a major rage, with significant CTL subsidies being considered in the Senate. There were grand plans for […]

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Tags: China · coal

GorePhobia and the Washpost: HEADS UP … the saga continues

June 15th, 2007 · Comments Off on GorePhobia and the Washpost: HEADS UP … the saga continues

Perhaps you missed this … but … sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson started his OPED in last Sunday’s Washington Post Outlook section: You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason. True, but not truthful or honest. No […]

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Tags: Energy

Greening the computer …

June 12th, 2007 · Comments Off on Greening the computer …

Most people are unaware just how many kilowatt hours their computers burn and how many pounds of CO2 they help pump into the atmosphere. Interested in learning about this, there is no better place to start than Michael BlueJay’s Saving Electricity site.   Reducing energy use when you turn on your computer looks like it is […]

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Tags: Computing

Washington Post responds re Gorephobia Truthiness …

June 11th, 2007 · Comments Off on Washington Post responds re Gorephobia Truthiness …

Follow-ups are sometimes merited. My last diary, Gorephobia Prominent in the Washington Post, began: Sometimes you can’t make things up. Under the title “Fact Check”, Andrew Ferguson starts his Sunday Washington Post OPED “You can’t really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, The Assault on Reason.” Ferguson is absolutely right […]

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Tags: Energy