From tspellman at softwareflair.com Thu Nov 1 06:10:31 2007 From: tspellman at softwareflair.com (Thomas Spellman) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 06:10:31 -0700 Subject: [Energy] Tomorrow Night, Two Half Hour Programs On PBS's California's Green: Message-ID: <00e201c81c88$95955160$c0bff420$@com> Tomorrow Night, Two Half Hour Programs On PBS's California's Green: Thursday, November 1, 9:00pm Vintage Electric Cars CHANNEL 6 (KVIE) A tour of the Nethercutt Collection and Museum in Sylmar showcases the first electric cars. Thursday, November 1, 9:30pm Fuel Cell Partnership CHANNEL 6 (KVIE) The California Fuel Cell Partnership, which uses hydrogen to power cars, is spotlighted. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20071101/3c376a26/attachment.html From pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com Tue Nov 6 10:11:20 2007 From: pcurrents at mountainastrologer.com (Tem Tarriktar) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:11:20 -0800 Subject: [Energy] The Union printed my Peak Oil update Message-ID: <1E737451-AC40-4458-B49D-578FF6BFE505@mountainastrologer.com> Hi friends: The Union printed an "Other Voices" that I sent them a few days ago. latest news on Peak Oil and urging the local govt. to act on it. Thanks to Janaia, Kate and Mike for their editing help. See it here and comment if you like. http://www.theunion.com/article/20071106/OPINION/111060097 --Tem From caver456 at gmail.com Mon Nov 12 11:21:12 2007 From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:21:12 -0800 Subject: [Energy] forward thinking Message-ID: Portland of the Fee Portland, Ore., will pay builders to build green Portland, Ore., has unveiled an innovative plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions. The city will require an energy-efficiency inspection of new homes, then levy a tax on builders who have merely complied with Oregon's efficiency requirements. Builders who construct homes 30 percent more efficient than the state building code requires will escape the fee; those who go above and beyond with construction that saves at least 45 percent more than the state requires will be paid cash rewards. Portlanders will vote on the plan in January. [ email | discuss | + digg | + del.icio.us ] sources: The Oregonian, Associated Press, Portland Tribune see also, in Grist: 15 Green Cities From caver456 at gmail.com Mon Nov 19 10:18:36 2007 From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:18:36 -0800 Subject: [Energy] WSJ articles on the mine and peak oil Message-ID: Article on the Mine, from a week and a half ago: http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/california-town-relives-gold-rush/n20071109114109990006 Good quotes from David Brownstein! Interesting article, fairly unbiased. Not a single mention of energy, even though Nick was took a look at APPLE's energy analysis page. Probably driven by the fact that the WSJ world is among the latest of adopters of the idea that energy may become scarce soon, which ties in nicely to the next article, that Dave Clark found: Article on peak oil, on page 1 today: (from Dave) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119543677899797558.html?mod=googlenews_wsj - also check out the related articles at the bottom of that page. From caver456 at gmail.com Wed Nov 28 11:31:11 2007 From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:31:11 -0800 Subject: [Energy] google makes big news again Message-ID: [from Grist] Keeping in mind that no corporation can be completely clean, this is a pretty big announcement: *Google Dolls * *Google funds R&D to make clean energy cheaper than coal * Google has made a humongous announcement -- which goes without saying, since everything Google does is humongous -- of plans to heavily fund R&D on renewable-energy technology, focusing on wind, solar, and geothermal power. Calling the project Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal (or RE| discuss| + digg| + del.icio.us] *sources:* Bloomberg, Reuters, MarketWatch *see also, in Grist:* Google pledges $10 million for plug-in hybrid research, Google gives out bikes to employees, Google installs more than 9,000 photovoltaic panels at its HQ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.apple-nc.org/pipermail/energy/attachments/20071128/1ba37cc5/attachment.html