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CFL Member Stats for Instapundit - Greenhouse Gas Emission and Cost Savings - One Billion Bulbs
This is a neat idea, tracking purchases of CFL’s and estimating the savings. My info, under “Stephen S., NY” is surely conservative, I entered 40 bulbs replaced, averaging 60 watts each, replaced with 20 watt CFLs. I used the […]
¶ Posted April 22, 2007 § Energy ‡ Comments (4)
Since the past few days has been filled with huge news events, the VTech shootings, yesterday’s horrific bombings in Baghdad, and the Supreme Court’s ban on partial-birth abortion, this development, which, in the long term, could be the most significant, might easily be overlooked.
Winds of Change.NET: No Problem? Shell’s Patent Application for Oil Shale Extraction
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¶ Posted April 19, 2007 § Science & Technology, Energy ‡ Comments (4)
Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells - New York Times
It’s called ’supply and demand.’ As the price of oil goes up, it affects both sides: demand goes down (conservation, CFL bulbs, higher mileage automobiles, etc.) and demand goes up (heavy Venezuelan crude, then tar sands, then ethanol substitutes).
March 5, 2007
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¶ Posted March 10, 2007 § Energy ‡ Comments (5)
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You’re Looking At It.
Swirl bulbs don’t just work, they pay for themselves. They use so little power compared with old reliable bulbs, a $3 swirl pays for itself in lower electric bills in about five months. Screw one in, turn it on, and […]
¶ Posted September 5, 2006 § Science & Technology, Energy ‡ Comments (11)
When activists, journalists and others speak of “Big Oil”, you know exactly what they mean: companies such as Exxon Mobil, Chevron, BP and Royal Dutch Shell. These titans have been making lots of money for their shareholders; their bosses enjoy vast pay packets; and their actions affect us all. BP’s decision to shut down Prudhoe […]
¶ Posted August 14, 2006 § Middle East & Islam, Energy ‡ Comments Off
[by j.d.]
This is a follow up to Joe’s (aka “BloodSpite”) post of yesterday about gasoline prices. He talked about the “magic point” where consumers decide to take drastic measures — like selling their cars to get more fuel-efficient vehicles — in order to reduce gas consumption.
In that post, he suggested a European-style tax on gas-guzzlers […]
¶ Posted August 10, 2006 § Guest bloggers, Energy ‡ Comments (12)
NYC buildings conserved to take pressure off grid during heat
They closed Citigroup’s building in Long Island City and people are leaving Citigroup Center here in Manhattan too, although they haven’t closed this building yet. On my boss’s instruction, I am going home.
As air conditioners devoured a near-record amount of electricity Tuesday, engineers monitoring New York […]
¶ Posted July 19, 2006 § Personal, Science & Technology, Energy ‡ Comments (3)
For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland - New York Times
Dozens of factories that turn corn into the gasoline substitute ethanol are sprouting up across the nation, from Tennessee to Kansas, and California, often in places hundreds of miles away from where corn is grown.Once considered the green dream of the […]
¶ Posted June 24, 2006 § Science & Technology, Energy ‡ Comments (3)
Protectionist Senators Oppose Foreign Ethanol
That didn’t take long.
Illinois’ U-S senators are urging President Bush to back off his recent call for an increase in ethanol imports. Senators Dick Durbin and Barack Obama today suggest it would only make the United States as dependent on imported ethanol as it now is on foreign oil. Durbin and […]
¶ Posted May 11, 2006 § Moonbats and Dem Stupidity, Energy ‡ Comments (2)
First of all, I cannot stand articles about wondrous new technologies that “we are going to be using someday,” especially when they are going to “solve the energy crisis.” When Doc Brown flies by in his banana-powered DeLorean, let me know. In the mean time, I’ll be filling my Ford Explorer at the pump.
With that […]
¶ Posted May 5, 2006 § Science & Technology, Energy ‡ Comments (19)
The Washington Monthly
PANDERING FOR DUMMIES….I realize that high gasoline prices bring out the worst in everybody, but Senate Republicans have surely given new meaning to the word “pandering” with today’s proposal:Most American taxpayers would get $100 rebate checks to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to […]
¶ Posted April 28, 2006 § Energy, Wingnuts and GOP Stupidity ‡ Comments (11)
Anne Applebaum: Tilting at Windmills
But they also reflect a deeper American malady. The problem plaguing new energy developments is no longer NIMBYism, the “Not-In-My-Back-Yard” movement. The problem now, as one wind-power executive puts it, is BANANAism: “Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.” The anti-wind brigade, fierce though it is, pales beside the opposition to liquid […]
¶ Posted April 19, 2006 § Science & Technology, Moonbats and Dem Stupidity, Energy ‡ Comments (4)
