0
POPSWhat's old is new Re-purposed and reclaimed wood and metal mixed with solar and wind power capabilities plus the option of a rain water collection system design is winning awards.
1
POPSIt Has The Stench Of Opportunity By reducing the amount of the potent greenhouse gas released into the air, the projects also potentially could turn cow dung into dollars, if a climate bill before Congress becomes law. "Agriculture and agribusiness is what Greeley is all about," Biggi said. "We needed to take that strong traditional economic base and ... merge it with emerging renewable energy and technology." Waste may be the new energy crop in these parts. But elsewhere, communities are looking anew at power sources such as the sun and wind that may exist in their own backyards.
1
POPSAmerica’s First Zero Carbon Mass Transit Shuttle Compared to diesel or CNG buses, their buses have low maintenance costs, low operation costs, zero tailpipe emissions, and can reach a zero carbon footprint if powered by renewable energy sources. There will be a presentation/demonstration of the technology at American University in D.C. on Wednesday, October 21. They will be showcasing the following: - The 15-foot minibus showcased will be the first electric vehicle in the country powered completely by ultracapacitors. - Two dozen full-size ultracapacitor buses have been in commercial operation in Shanghai, China for the past three years. - The ultracapacitor vehicle demonstration is a combined effort of American University, Sinautec Automobile Technologies, The Stella Group, and Shanghai Aowei Technologies Corp.
0
POPSBiofuel Filter Biofuel are considered to be any of liquid fuel that originates from renewable plant materials and it can be created from a number of plentiful organic sources.
0
POPSSolar Powered Lights I am in favor for Renewable Sources of Energy. Do you know that you can build your own Solar Power Lights system?. Learn how! visit my site now for more information.
0
POPSSolar Energy Panels I am all into green, you can learn more about how to become an independent energy producer and know the benefits for<a href="http://renewable-sources-of-energy.com/benefits-for-residential-solar-power/solar-energy-panels/">Solar Energy Panels</a> visit us now! Start taking positive action today towards your economy and planet and you will be amazed just how things can be improved and changed. A. Arvizu <a href="http://renewable-sources-of-energy.com/">Renewable Sources of Energy</a>
3
POPSAmerican Socialism & Chinese Capitalism
We have urged China to join us in our quixotic attempt to prevent global warming. She has refused, arguing that her per capita consumption of energy is the lowest of any industrial country. Except for the leftist economists, economics tells us that we should let the prices of different energy sources determine when a new source is ready for development. No subsidy would be required if we let the market make the decision. Totalitarian China accepts this approach; free market U.S. takes the Soviet prescription. American firms are currently not investing in the United States. Net non-residential investment is barely enough to replace capital that is wearing out. Instead, billions have been wasted by corporate managers who have been engaging in such foolishness as buying back corporate stock. All this does is increase share prices that will supposedly justify management bonuses when earnings stagnate. Even banks did this throughout the run-up to the financial crisis, . . . . .
2
POPSBritain facing blackouts for first time since 1970's Recipe for disaster: liberals and environmental whackos in charge of a government. Just think - wouldn't it be great if China and Russia had such leaders? We could watch as they strangle themselves. (Wake up - that is how they are laughing at us!) VOTE THE BUMS OUT IN 2010 !!!!!
0
POPSWannabe-Look Good, All Show, No Go Green Colleges
If after the headline, the story said 650 universities and colleges to offer 50% of their classes online and limit their sports programs to competing with institutions within 50 miles from each other, I might believe they were serious and you would probably agree. But since colleges and universities are businesses first, their signing letters of good intention are just about as effective as business and governments doing the same. And I should add, most of us just sign on as well and do noting to change our I'll-use-all-the-energy-I-can-afford life style. Example: A local USEPA office built next to the University of Cincinnati has no sidewalk access directly into its property. I have to walk in the driveway in competition with vehicles. They assume everyone will drive there, then park and walk. Grin. And Kroger Foods, assumes you will drive in park,walk a little way then ride around in a cart that makes it look like they are being nice to disabled people.
5
POPSCash for Clunkers: What Are the Facts? What about used car salesmen and used-parts dealers, whose livelihoods depend on these cars and parts? Every car traded in through the Cash for Clunkers program must be "scrapped, crushed, or shredded." As much as the program may be temporarily helping one part of the economy, it is permanently hurting the good men and women whose livelihoods depend on older cars and parts. Question 3: Does Cash for Clunkers actually help the environment? According to Gwen Ottinger, a researcher at the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Center for Contemporary History and Policy in Philadelphia, the answer is hazy at best: Building a new car, washing machine or refrigerator takes energy and resources: The manufacture of steel, aluminum and plastics are energy-intensive processes, and some of the materials used in durable goods, especially plastics, use non-renewable fossil fuels as feedstocks as well as energy sources. Disposing of old products, a step required by most incentive and rebate
5
POPSCost of each "Green Job" = $800,000
In addition, about two-thirds of those "green" jobs were just to set up the energy source in construction, fabrication, installation, marketing and administration. Only 1 in 10 of the green jobs created was a permanent job operating and maintaining the renewable sources of energy. Each wind-industry job created in Spain required a subsidy of about $1.4 million. Overall, the average subsidy cost for each green job was about $800,000 (571,138 euros). And to create about 50,000 green jobs, Spain lost 110,000 jobs elsewhere. The high cost of green energy predictably drove energy-intensive Spanish companies and industries out of Spain to countries with cheaper carbon-based energy, while the cost to Spanish taxpayers of renewable-energy subsidies was "enormous There is much more in the report, which at less than 50 pages would make useful reading for our elected representatives. Those who are worried about global warming may, after studying this report, still want to subsidize renew
4
POPSOakland is 4th greenest city in US (San Fran is #2, Berkeley #7) More: Since there is as yet no official criteria set by the Environmental Protection Agency for determining a city's "greeness", Mother Nature Network considered several key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality's efforts at carbon footprint reduction. These included air and water quality, efficient recycling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.
0
POPSObama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated--Will Gore, Carter or Congress Intervene Now? "Mountaintop removal is a crime--and ought to be treated as a crime." --Al Gore, April 28, 2008 "Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet." --Dr. James Hansen, NASA Consider this: Over 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives rip across the most diverse and oldest mountains in America--and rain down silica dust and heavy metals on residents--in West Virginia alone EVERY DAY. Consider this: Mountaintop removal provides less than 5-7% percent of our national coal production, at a time when coal demand is down, and mountaintop removal coal could EASILY be replaced by energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources or underground coal. Consider this: Not one person in the Obama administration involved in this outrageous decision has ever set a foot on a mountaintop removal site.
5
POPS Watch What Obama Does, Not What He Says But capacity can be increased only gradually, and that's if more production is being encouraged rather than prevented. To think that wind and solar or other alternative fuels can fill the energy gap requires a belief in what Adriel Bettelheim of Congressional Quarterly has called the "Tinkerbell effect," as in Peter Pan. It consists of believing something will happen just because you wish it would. Wind and solar now provide less than 1 percent of America's energy needs. The likelihood, based on projections by experts, is that oil and gas must be relied on overwhelmingly to meet the country's energy needs for at least two more decades. But amazingly enough, the Obama administration is worried about domestic "overproduction" of oil and gas. So Obama has proposed removing all tax incentives to produce oil and gas, slapping a 13 percent excise tax on all energy derived from the Gulf of Mexico,
1
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update