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Swimming pools are not, generally, the most environmentally friendly item you’ll find.  Lots of chemicals to clean them, the electricity to keep the pumps running, all the energy to heat them, all the water used up to fill them … all in all, not the most climate friendly lifestyle choice. But options are growing to […]

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The Lieberman-Warner “Climate Security Act” (CSA) was passed out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday.  We (and I, strongly) have been told to shut up and celebrate. A Global Warming Bill is going to be debated on the Senate floor and, in any event, any faults don’t matter since Mr 26% will veto […]

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Having discussed Gridpoint in Energy COOL: Luxury that could go mainstream, a small update from an article in The Washington Post business section.  Gridpoint looks to still mainly be in the testing / development phase, but is available at a retail price of $12.5k rather than the $10k in yesterday’s post.

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When people speak of the need for an energy version of the Manhattan Project, for the Apollo Project for Energy, the analogy is far from perfect. What is often missed, when conceiving this, is the client issue (who buys the nuclear weapons or the lunar landing module, eg, not your average homeowner) and the question […]

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Like Jessica, I’m “a green geek” and gadgets that help propel me (and, even better, the globe) toward an Energy Smart future excite me.  And, also like Jessica, I’m excited by a recent addition of a fan to my home. Bit by bit, I’m moving my home from 1950s to 21st century energy systems. That […]

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While I’m writing something more substantive related to this, a note to encourage all to spend a few moments watching this video … and to share it with as many friends as possible.

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As part of Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Conference, one of the winners was the Wind Belt.   Working in Haiti, Shawn Frayne, a 28-year-old inventor based in Mountain View, Calif., saw the need for small-scale wind power to juice LED lamps and radios in the homes of the poor. Conventional wind turbines don’t scale down well—there’s too much […]

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I plan to write more about this but just to put out there.  From 12-20 Oct 2007, there will be a serious “solar village” on the Mall in Washington, DC, in a competition of 20 universities and colleges as to the best solar-powered home.   The Solar Decathlon is a seriously Energy COOL event.   

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Well, it is getting reported, but seemingly not in the United States … According to The Independent, the International Panel on Climate Change‘s latest study lets us know, it is now too late. A rise of two degrees centigrade [3.6 degrees fahrenheit] in global temperatures – the point considered to be the threshold for catastrophic […]

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The United Arab Emirates has just contracted with  a Sweedish firm, CSEM to purchase a floating solar island.  This concept has been around awhile, but this is the first sale. The UAE is going to build a 100 meter wide “island”, producing about one megawatt at a cost of $5 million.  This is a concetrating […]

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