Tag: business
member name: Steve B.
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October 07, 2007 08:28 PM EDT --
Regardless of your feelings about Wal-Mart as a corporation, it is no small matter when the corporate giant begins installing energy saving solar systems on its supercenters. This past week, Wal-Mart and . . .
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December 31, 2008 12:50 PM EST --
A billion gallon coal sludge spill in Tennessee again raises the question, is there really any such thing as clean coal?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/26/tennessee.sludge/index.html?section=cnn_latest . . .
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September 26, 2007 06:44 PM EDT --
I continue to be surprised by the solar energy activity in Canada. Listening to some skeptics, you would think that solar energy won't work outside southern or southwestern U.S. In a previous article, . . .
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October 31, 2007 06:48 PM EDT --
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District is nearing completion of a solar-hydrogen fueling station that will fuel 14 hydrogen, fuel-cell cars. The demonstration project will be completed at the end of . . .
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November 11, 2007 09:44 PM EST --
The Rocky Mountain Institute and the U.S. Green Building Council have teamed up to produce a program (approx. 30 minutes), which features the economic sense of building green. In this program, several . . .
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September 27, 2007 07:47 PM EDT --
Skeptics about renewable energy will frequently say things like, "Solar and wind will never be anything but a minor contributor to the entire energy needs of our country." If that is the case, . . .
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October 01, 2007 01:36 PM EDT --
Critics of hydrogen will often write that hydrogen is not an energy source, but an energy carrier. This is true, but deceptive. The issue has to do with efficiency, which I addressed here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977120951 . . .
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October 04, 2007 12:20 PM EDT --
Nuclear energy is prohibitively expensive
In Part One, I gave ten reasons "Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Solution to Global Warming".
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977118748 . . .
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October 18, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
JUST SAY NO - DETAILS BELOW
I have been writing a series of articles on "Why Nuclear Energy Is Not the Solution to Global Warming."
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977118748 . . .
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October 23, 2007 12:58 PM EDT --
The Nanosolar Corporation, initiated in 2002 by Martin Roscheisen and Brian Sager, had the goal of mass manufacturing medium-efficient solar cells at one-tenth of the cost of traditional, silicon-wafer . . .
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September 24, 2008 10:54 PM EDT --
This week, the senate has finally passed an energy bill, which includes tax credits for renewable energy. The bill has an eight year investment tax credit, and it extends the production tax credit for . . .
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April 02, 2009 11:57 AM EDT --
First Solar reported in February that the clean energy company reached the holy grail of renewables: $1/Watt, or equivalency/parity with coal. That is, First Solar now is able to produce solar energy . . .
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December 17, 2007 07:22 PM EST --
Last week, the senate fell one vote short of passing an energy bill with moderate support for renewable energy. The main reason for this was simple. Funds dedicated to tax incentives for renewable . . .
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December 20, 2007 04:40 PM EST --
During the campaign for the 2008 elections, many issues are tossed around, surveys and polls taken about how candidates and voters think about the issues, issues ranked according to importance, and otherwise . . .
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October 26, 2008 08:34 AM EDT --
Wal-Mart is often the target of criticism by environmental and labor groups. However, in the past few years, Wal-Mart has made progress toward three defined goals of 100% renewable energy, zero waste, . . .
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January 21, 2007 05:33 PM EST --
FDA likes clones-
Thinks they're ok for food-
Wants you to buy them
Don't think you'll eat clones?
You'll never know you bought them.
They won't be labelled.
Industry . . .
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October 01, 2009 12:58 PM EDT --
There is a funny tv ad that perhaps you've seen, produced by the Americans Against Food Taxes, showing an indignant woman insisting that Washington not tax fruit juices and sodas. She says proponents . . .
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November 25, 2006 08:05 PM EST --
MSNBC is reporting that energy companies are increasingly conceding that global warming is a real threat, and that regulation at the federal level is inevitable.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15871433/ . . .
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August 12, 2007 05:40 PM EDT --
I assume everyone knows what a scapegoat is. The term originated in Biblical times from a religious ritual. The sins of the community were projected, literally, onto a goat, which was then driven into . . .
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April 02, 2007 11:07 AM EDT --
Top court rebukes administration on warming
Justices order government to re-examine regulations on car emissions
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ordered the federal government on Monday to take a fresh . . .
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