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Abstract. By burning fossil fuels we have put 3.6 trillion tons of Carbon Dioxide, CO2 in the atmosphere1 in the last 200 years – most in the last 60. This has changed the concentration of atmospheric CO2 from 250 parts per Million, ppm, to 390 ppm, an increase of approximately 35.9%. This increase of atmospheric [...]
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Lars Kroldrup reports, on the Green Inc. blog at the Times, that Siemens has announced its intention to expand in the United States market. From Siemens Touts Growth in Renewables and the Value of the American Market:
Since acquiring the Danish wind turbine company Bonus Energy in 2004, the German industrial giant Siemens AG, has become [...]
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Earlier today one of my friends handed me a copy of some satire published in the New York Post, a tabloid in the tradition of the London rags, on the subject of "Climate-Gate." At about the same time, Roger Saillant, co-author of Vapor Trails, who heads the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value at Case Western [...]
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Architecting a Clean, Secure, Sustainable, Non-Carbon and Non-Nuclear Energy Future
100 Gigawatts offshore wind. $300 Billion.
100 GW land based wind. $200 Billion.
50 GW solar. $325 Billion.
250 GW Clean, renewable, sustainable Energy. $825 Billion.
Save the World: Priceless
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Marketplace reported last night that "Massachusetts has launched a program that lets home and business owners who generate their own power sell it back to the electric compan" at retail prices, increasing the incentives for the installation of solar and wind energy-producing equipment, and additional incentives for conservation (i.e. additional conservation, which brings net consumption [...]
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Liz Borkowski at the Pump Handle has a few thoughtful words to say about T. Boone Pickens' Texas wind project - I didn't know that his stated larger plan is to free up natural gas for electricity production. I'd add only that - whatever the plan is, building wind capacity to power a few million [...]
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