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theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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The Washington Post finally let through a good
op-ed, “ Falling Behind On Green Tech ,” by
John Doerr partner in VC Kleiner Perkins and Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE. As I’ve been saying for over a decade now, the U.S. has lost its lead to other countries because conservatives have ...
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John Doerr and Jeff Immelt: To become the green tech ...
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theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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My Clean Break column yesterday takes a look
at an overlooked issue on the smart-grid file: privacy
and security. Last week Toronto Hydro disclosed that 179,000 customer online accounts had been illegally accessed, along with some personal information. Now, this could have happened to any Web ...
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As smart grid evolves, closer attention is needed to ...
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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From the web page for the above graphic
: The researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute have
recently published new estimates of the effects of traffic congestion. Nearly 3 billion gallons of fuel is wasted each year due to traffic congestion. In 2007, the amount of ...
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GOTW: Congestion fuel usage
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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While transcribing some of my CEO interviews from
the BIO conference, let me post this interesting news
from the US Department of Agriculture about their voluntary ecolabeling plans for biobased products. First of all, the USDA defined "biobased products" as products that are composed ...
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USDA plans bio-products ecolabeling
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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We're leaving money on the table by not
improving energy efficiency (image by pfala, CC 2.5 licensed)
Would you spend $520 to save $1,200? That’s the choice McKinsey & Co is offering to the U.S. about energy efficiency. In their new report on energy efficiency , released last ...
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McKinsey & Co: Energy Efficiency is Like Free Money
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow
forever. Companies must get bigger. National economies need to
swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more – ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: Enough. Just so much and no ...
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The Economy vs. Ecology
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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photo: eSolar The U.S. Department of Energy on
Friday began accepting applications for at least $3 billion
in direct funding of renewable energy power plant projects. The funding, part of the federal stimulus package, is in lieu of a 30 percent investment tax credit that green energy ...
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Race begins for $3b to fund green energy projects
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
“Cash for Clunkers” proves better for saving oil and CO2 — and for the economy — than predicted, ...
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I was not a big fan of the
final version of “Cash for Clunkers” because its mileage
improvement requirements were so inadequate, as Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) explained here . But in the real world, the public has mostly turned in gas-guzzlers in ...
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“Cash for Clunkers” proves better for saving oil and CO2 ...
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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Technology Review has an article on the state
of play in the solar power industry, with the
industry declaring "incremental advances have made transformational technologies unnecessary" - Solar Industry: No Breakthroughs Needed . The federal government is behind the times when it comes to making ...
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Solar Industry: No Breakthroughs Needed
theenergycollective.com - 8/4/2009
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For the past several days, I have been
getting flashbacks to a high school semantics project where
we were assigned to watch TV for at least 2 hours per night for a week. Some students jumped for joy at having a great excuse for doing something that they would do anyway, but this assignment ...
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Natural Gas Industry Is Selling Its Product With A ...
theenergycollective.com - 8/3/2009
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Picking up where I left off in Friday's
posting addressing the issues raised by ABC's recent "
Over a Barrel " report, concerning what Americans ought to know about oil, let's turn to the products that we get from it. Over the course of a century and a half of production--this month marks the ...
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"Over a Barrel" - Part II
theenergycollective.com - 8/3/2009
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From The Independent , today: The world is
heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple
a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned. Higher oil prices ...
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Why peak oil doesn't matter (I'm starting to sound like ...
theenergycollective.com - 8/3/2009
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“Oil prices leapt above $70 a barrel Monday
in Asia on investor expectations a recovering global economy
will boost crude demand,” the AP reports . You might call those investors speculators — if speculation can be based on marketplace reality. The UK’s Independent opens its interview ...
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World’s top energy economist warns peak oil threatens ...
theenergycollective.com - 8/3/2009
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Utah-based Ceramatec has developed a small ceramic disc
that can store enough solar energy to power an
average-sized house for most of a day. Researchers at Ceramatec have created the small, ceramic disk, which can hold up to 20-kilowatt hours, which is enough to power an entire house for ...
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New power disc may make solar affordable
theenergycollective.com - 8/3/2009
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Technology Review: A New Approach to Fusion General
Fusion , a startup in Vancouver, Canada, says it
can build a prototype fusion power plant within the next decade and do it for less than a billion dollars. So far, it has raised $13.5 million from public and private investors to help ...
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Technology Review: A New Approach to Fusion
General ...
