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Energy

That was Then / This is Now – 30 Yr Old Energy Speech Eerily Relevant

July 13, 2009

The year was 1979 and the United States was in the middle of an Energy Crisis when Jimmy Carter gave what was to become known as his Malaise Speech.

In Hot Water – Turn it Down and Save Energy

June 26, 2009

So how much power does my electric hot water system actually use?

UK Grocery Chain to Divert 92,000 Pounds of Waste per Week for Biomass Power

January 22, 2009

One of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains, Sainsbury’s, announced that it would divert all of its food waste to a biomass plant to be turned into electricity.
“Businesses throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK need to demonstrate their commitment to finding workable, commercially sound solutions to today’s environmental problems.” – Alison Austin, environment manager [...]

Peak Oil is Here

January 2, 2009

Peak oil? That’s some radical notion based on a myth, right? Another wacky hippie concept, an alarmist prediction with no basis in reality, right?
Nope.
Peak oil is here, and it’s time to stop denying it.
Peak oil is the name for the point when oil production reaches its maximum levels. If we mapped oil production on [...]

There is an ocean of oil under our feet!

August 12, 2008

Apparently there is a vein of Oil Shale that extends from Canada to Minnesota. Oil proponents (those who would stand to profit from extracting the shale) contend that we are standing on an oil deposit larger than all the oil fields in the combined world. There is quite a debate going on with the conservative [...]