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Energy COOL: Turning gurgling into clean electricity

September 11th, 2013 · 1 Comment

Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times. And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are trulyEnergy COOL. The fifth annual DC Renewable Technology conference provided multiple opportunities […]

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Tags: alternative energy · Energy · energy cool · renewable energy

“We can’t wait” … President stands up to Big Oil and Big Coal

December 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on “We can’t wait” … President stands up to Big Oil and Big Coal

President Barack Obama might finally have crystalized to a core message that, honestly, should have been core from the election through today. We cannot wait … – To address the health care inequities, costs, and shortfalls – To foster a more honest engagement between the financial community (Wall Street) and the citizenry (Main Street) – […]

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Tags: Congress · Obama Administration · pollution · President Barack Obama · republican party

“The Denial Tango” …

November 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment

As with the United States, Australia has faced a Murdoch media and fossil foolish driven effort to turn the nation’s back on science. In the face of this machine effort, not only has the Australian government adopted a carbon tax that will help turn the nation toward a more sustainable future but the Aussies have […]

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Tags: climate delayers · climate zombies · environmental · global warming deniers

My Master Metered Condo and Its Priorities

August 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments

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Tags: Congress · economics · Energy · energy efficiency · master metering · politics

Cool shirt … but what is the carbon (and other pollution) footprint?

August 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Climate Reality project is an interesting concept: > a global day-long event looking to the realities of climate science and climate disruptions impacts (existing and forecast), time zone by time zone. While not surprisingly under attack from the global warming denial machine (GWDM), we can expect that Gore and his team will assemble 24 […]

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Tags: Al Gore · climate change · clothing · government energy policy

Fiorina Flagrant Flip-Flopping Flippantly Favors Falsehoods

June 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments

Carly Fiorina has entered the California general election cycle with an ad that attacks Barbara Boxer for taking climate change issues seriously. Barbara Boxer seems to think that climate change is the real threat to our national security. Yes, how dare Senator Barbara Boxer pay attention to left-wing, radical, anti-military institutions like the Central Intelligence […]

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Tags: climate change · Global Warming

Blockbuster breakthrough from MIT … yet again … huh?

December 7th, 2009 · Comments Off on Blockbuster breakthrough from MIT … yet again … huh?

MIT is one of the nation’s leading sources for technological innovation with amazing faculty, amazing students, and often amazing output.  Sometimes, however, it seems that their press releases are a good example of that amazing output in terms of their ability to make noise when noise might (MIGHT!) not be merited. More than one person […]

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Tags: Energy

ClimateGate reveals nefarious conspiracy!

November 21st, 2009 · 12 Comments

I apologize. This post corrects something written yesterday. ClimateGATE reveals nefarious conspiracy? NOT! asserted that the hacked emails from a leading global warming (climate change) science center did not reveal some form of conspiracy in the climate change world. That conclusion was wrong. I apologize. There is a quite serious conspiracy highlighted through ClimateGATE.

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Tags: climate change · environmental · Global Warming

Energy COOL: Green Portable Schooling

November 15th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Since diving into the deep end when it comes to energy issues, almost every day sees new fascinating concepts, approaches, and technologies. Fascinating … exciting … even hope inspiring at times. And, as well, as the passion builds, so many of these are truly Energy COOL. When determining how to prioritize action using, by definition, […]

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Tags: architecture · building green · Energy · energy cool · environmental · schools

An Illuminating Vision for Pavilion Living: VT’s Lumenhaus

October 7th, 2009 · 8 Comments

Imagine the environmentally conscious socialite and their new cottage at the Hamptons. That is the feel that Virginia Tech’s Lumenhaus gives in their, quite simply, luminous website and presentation of their entry into the  DOE Solar Decathlon, which opens Thursday on the Mall in Washington, DC, and which I had a chance to visit earlier […]

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Tags: Energy · energy cool · solar · solar decathlon · Solar Energy