Tag: Energy Efficiency - Page 16
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Solar Encourages Conservation & Behavior Change: Some Anecdotal Evidence
When I posted a video on solar car charging in rainy England, johnnydarkangel (who says anonymity has to go away on the web!?) commented that solar changes the way you consume energy. You do all your washing during the day,
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Bill Clinton says "Paint your roofs white!"
Bill Clinton wrote a short piece about what he thinks is the "best way to jump start job creation". His answer? Painting roofs white.
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Incandescent Light Bulb Hoarder Confesses the Error of His Ways
I love this story, published over on the right-wing pollster Rasmussen's editorial page. In it, a self-professed environmentalist confesses that he has been hoarding incandescent bulbs for months,
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What Spitballs Teach Us About Recycling, and Why it Matters
Lloyd once famously declared that recycling is bullsh*t. But this was more to make the case for waste reduction and reuse, than to argue against recycling as a better alternative to
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US Gov Unveils Crazy Propaganda Videos that Claim Using Less Energy Saves Money
Given the fever pitch the Tea Party's anti-efficient light bulb rhetoric has reached (want a sample? just check out this Fox News hate-fest), there will likely be no shortage of blowhards and halfwits who say unkind things about the US Department of
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Fox News: Energy Efficient Light Bulbs Will Kill Us All! (Video)
Run for your lives! Energy efficient light bulbs are coming, and they're going to poison you and your children! They'll spray mercury all over your house, while
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Homemade Computer Crafted with Legos, Crunches Numbers for Medical Research
What do you do when your hobby is building computers, and you have a keen desire to build a highly energy efficient computer that can be utilized by supercomputers for computations for medical research? Oh,
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Energy Star Releases New "Most Efficient" Label
Energy Star has decided a new label is needed to identify the most energy efficient electronics and appliances from those that are, you know, just kinda efficient. Anyone else see a small problem with this?The EPA has
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GOP Rep Seeks to Stop Kids from Learning about Energy Efficiency
The Tea Party crowd's aversion to better energy efficiency standards for light bulbs is well known by now: A straightforward, industry-supported 2007 bill signed into law by George W. Bush has now been falsely
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House of Reps Passes Amendment Banning Implementation of 2007 Light Bulb Efficiency Improvement Law
Sigh. After rejecting a measure that would have fast-tracked the repeal of a law signed by George W. Bush to tighten up efficiency requirements for light bulbs, the House of Reps passed an amendment that would
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Tea Party Attempt to Block Incandescent Ban Fails to Get Enough Votes
Photo: Flickr, CCLooks Like the Law Signed by George W. Bush in 2007 Will Stay on the BooksAs I mentioned a couple days ago, Republicans were trying to block a law setting minimum efficiency for lightbulbs, which would have made U.S. citizens waste
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Shining a Light on Energy Efficiency
Our inefficient, carbon-based energy economy threatens to irreversibly disrupt the Earth's climate. Averting dangerous climate change and the resultant crop-shrinking heat waves, more-destructive storms,
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Solar-Powered Hotel Energy Management Cuts Power Use 35%
TreeHugger Jasmin has talked before about the logic of only powering hotel rooms when you are there. It turns out that hotels consume energy at a much higher rate than similarly-sized residential buildings due, in part at least, to
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Volvo Meets DOE 10-Year Energy Intensity Reduction Target in One Year
Volvo Trucks' manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia has achieved a 30-percent reduction in energy intensity in just one year, making it the first company to meet a 10-year challenge established by the Department of Energy, the
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Light Bulb Ban Would Save Consumers $12.5 Billion by 2020, Eliminate 33 Power Plants
Photo: Flickr, CCToo Bad Republicans Want to Block It...There a bill currently making its way through the U.S. Congress that would block certain provisions from a 2007 energy law signed by George W. bush that "effectively bans the 100-watt
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Not Enlightened by CFLs in Cathedrals (Photos)
On a recent trip to the south of Spain, I visited the beautiful Cathedral of Seville, amongst the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. According to Wikipedia, the interior is the
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'Cling-film' Solar Cells Could Be Revolutionary
Could it really be this easy? Harnessing the power of the sun with a window cling? Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge have
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It's Time to Denmark-ify Our Cities: A Copenhagen Case Study
If we're going to consider trying to Denmark-ify societies around the world, perhaps the first thing we should do is make sure that people would actually want to live in those societies. So let's take a
