John McCain unveiled his Lexington Project several weeks back, but it does not seem to really have gotten much traction. This is too bad, as we need ideas from both side of the aisle to tackle the challenges ahead.
The Lexington Project Initiative Includes:
- Expanding Domestic Oil And Natural Gas Exploration And Production.
- Taking Action Now To Break Our Dependency On Foreign Oil By Reforming Our Transportation Sector.
- Investing In Clean, Alternative Sources Of Energy.
- Protecting Our Environment By Addressing Climate Change.
- Promoting Energy Efficiency.
- Addressing Speculative Pricing Of Oil.
Click here to leave your feedback on this ambitious plan.
Higher fuel prices and increased carbon emissions have been giving nuclear energy a boost. So far this year, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received licensing requests for 19 new nuclear power plants. That number could increase exponentially, along with the number of suitable sites for a plant.
To further boost the number of license requests, Congress should immediately propose a tax credit to all electric utilities who apply within the next 18 months. This tax credit should be phased in over the life of the nuclear reactor. By encouraging utilties to start making investments now, we will see the supply of electricity increase over the next decade, reducing the demand for carbon based generation, and pumping much needed cash into the construction industry.
In an interview this morning with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Schwarzenegger laments that the Bush administration “did not believe in global warming.” He adds that even if officials had done something on Friday, he would have thought it “bogus anyway…because you don’t really have an effect by doing something six months before you leave office“
You know it is pretty bad when Arnold starts bashing you.
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Thirty-six new reactors are currently being built worldwide, while another 81 are in the planning stages. And it has not escaped the attention of Germans that new nuclear power plants are not just being planned in the emerging nations of Asia and Eastern Europe, but are also back on the drawing board in the United States and Great Britain…
Obviously it is about time that we finally started building more nuclear plants, both in the US and abroad. If we want to get serious about global warming, nuclear is a cornerstone to any strategy.
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Argentine scientists are studying the effects of global warming by strapping plastic tanks to the backs of cows to collect their gas.The plastic tank is fitted to the cow’s back and connected through a tube to the animal’s stomach.
Not sure if this very scalable, last time I saw this was in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome! Embargo…Embargo…
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Looking for a better way to charge her iPod on the go, Adrienne So had an idea – could she invent a bionic bra to harness the energy of her bouncing breasts?
Next opportunity is harnessing children who are hyperactive! Just think of the energy that could be created.
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An innovative fuel-generating system could bring car racing into the green era. For other green issues that face car enthusiasts, visit Z-Car Forums
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Starting next month, thousands of government employees will only work 4 days per week, in an effort aimed at reducing energy costs and commuters’ gasoline expenses. However, employees are outraged that this will actually be an increase from the average 2 day a week that they currently work…
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Xerocoat, a newcomer in the solar industry, has patented a system that will make solar panels better and more efficient. They made a coating for the solar panels so that when covered with it, they receive 3% more light at noon and as much as 6% during early morning and evening hours. So they increase sensibly the solar panels’ efficiency and decrease the cost/watt.
XeroCoat’s anti-reflective coating technology most cost-effectively increases the energy performance of solar systems without requiring modifications to existing cell or module manufacturing processes.
Photovoltaic modules suffer from reduced conversion efficiency even before the sun’s light reaches the solar cell. This is because the solar module’s protective glass cover reflects some of the incident sunlight. For typical glass panels, depending on the time of day 4% to 15+% of the incoming light is lost from reflections and thus, is not available to generate electricity. Applying an anti-reflective coating to the cover glass of the module will reduce these reflections and increase the module’s output power. Current commercial PV technologies convert 10%-20% of the incoming light to electricity. The same module with a suitable anti-reflective coating can deliver an additional 0.3%-0.6% power conversion. A product achieving higher conversion efficiency in a cost-effective manner can make solar modules more affordable.
Tom Hood, chief executive officer and president of XeroCoat, declares: “At XeroCoat, we’re strongly committed to making solar energy more affordable for all today [...] the XeroCoat antireflective coating offers a very simple and cost-effective way to get the most power out of the sun.”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
today one of every two barrels of oil consumed in the United States still comes from foreign suppliers like Saudi Arabia, and that picture is not likely to change much through 2030.
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