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Gary Trudeau on the Roof Dilemma

Gary Trudeau on the Roof Dilemma

I’ve written about White Roofs, Green Roofs,  Solar Roofs and even Green Curtains.  They’re all good. But Gary Trudeau, in his unbeatable way, brings it all back home.

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Green Curtains

Green Curtains

I’ve been off the air for a week because we’ve been on vacation:  Vienna for a few days, then down to Istria for some beach, mountains and sight seeing.  We visited a wonderful Croatian national park today:  Risnjak. Meanwhile, here’s just a quick hitter on an item I saw on “green curtains” from the excellent […]

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White Roofs

I’ve said all along that US Energy Secretary Steven Chu is a smart guy.  He’s got a Nobel Prize in Physics to prove it.   (That’s why I say he’s too smart to be taken in by the ongoing boondoggle that is nuclear power.) Here he is talking about a new study from DOE on white […]

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There Oughta Be a Law

There Oughta Be a Law

You will notice in this diagram from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) depicting the total electricity flow in the US for 2008 that “conversion losses” account for 63% of the energy generated.  Got that?!  Nearly two thirds of the energy used to make electricity, 51% of that from coal, 21% from nuclear, and 17% from […]

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