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Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 weeks 19 hours ago.
Not much to say about this. Just a pretty nifty idea. I am going to put up a couple of the central paragraphs. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100621071943.htm New Air Conditioning System Has Potential to Slash Energy Usage by Up to 90 Percen...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 4 weeks 1 day ago.
It is true. I could not find any computer place in Springfield that would fix my computer for under 150 $$$ so I am off to J’ville to get it fixed. That is a round trip of 70 miles. There goes my energy conservation for the week. :} More tomorrow. :...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
We have been meditating on improving your residences energy efficiency, inlcuding new windows and new roofs. If you live in a colder environment one of the most important things to do is improve your heat source. We will talk about solar, electric, and ge...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I know, this is my alma mater. I also know that it may be a teensy weensy bit expensive. But this looks like a real good educational opportunity and today I had to write about roofs anyway so: http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/Courses/Course.lassomyCourseChoic...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
So my medical situation came home today. So now I can post. I started the year talking about residential energy conservation. So why stop now. http://home.howstuffworks.com/home-improvement/construction/green/smart-window.htm How Smart Windows Work by Kev...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I may be able to post something on Friday. So much has happened, but I have things to tend to. :} More Friday or Next week. :}
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
Medical circumstances require my attention. More maybe on Friday.
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
Not much to say about this today. In most of the country it is too cold to do anything about it anyway. http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/pf/20010223b.asp The top energy-saving home improvements By Laura A. Bruce • Bankrate.com These are the top single-f...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I wanted to end the year with something positive like I did the Friday before Christmas. But this has been a meditation on national environmental events and it would be impossible no matter what the topic to not post about this. I mean how inept must you ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I had never heard of coal seam gas before so this is a real education for me. Thanks to The Wilderness Society for that. http://www.wilderness.org.au/regions/new-south-wales/pillaga-coal-seam-gas-project-an-environmental-disaster Pilliga coal seam gas pro...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
You can read either article below. The facts stay pretty much the same but each has one of my favorite pictures of the horrible damage. The overhead shot is the most compelling: http://www.global-adventures.us/2010/04/05/aral-sea-shocking-disaster/ Then...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
Damming large rivers to generate electricity seemed like a good thing when there were only 1 billion or 2 people on the planet. But now with a planet nearing a human die back at 7 billion people and having stressed the planet to nearly its bursting point ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
OK, yesterday was a feel good day. Maybe a feel good weekend, but now back to the environmental disasters. This latest oil spill in Nigeria is not like the one in the Gulf of Mexico or the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. Still it was from a fixed well to a fixed ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I was going to post about the Nigerian oil spill in my continued meditation on environmental disasters in the recent years BUT its Christmas weekend eve. So instead I am posting a happy event. The White River is not free flowing after they punched a hole ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I was going to post about the Nigerian oil spill in my continued meditation on environmental disasters in the recent years BUT its Christmas weekend eve. So instead I am posting a happy event. The White River is now free flowing after they punched a hole ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I still have strong doubts about the claims that the northwest section of the US got slimed by radiation from Fukushima. But the plant is a big environmental mess that could last 30 years. Then there is the millions of tons off debris that has smashed aro...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
This all began as a lark. I was bored and could come up with anything interesting that I wanted people to see and think about so I typed in environmental disaster in the google field and picked the one that looked interesting. But it has turned out to be ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
I did not know which artcle to go with today. They were both about environmental destruction in Turkey printed within the last 2 days. One was about the 1,600 hydro projects in Turkey to generate just 8 percent of their electricity, but flooding hundreds ...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
Russia not only polluted the Soviet Union like Chernobyl in Ukraine and and other industrial sites, but they are doing a number on themselves as well. This AP article focuses on their problems with oil, but they have done a number on their part of the A...
Posted by Energy Tough Love Blog 1 month ago.
The world is just now getting over the disinformation campaign led by the rich, the coal companies and the oil companies that argued that global climate change wasn’t happening. The world had a perfect opportunity to clean it all up. China’s c...
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