No offense meant but anybody including yours truely can have a blog. This first Blog was kind of interesting but apparently it died in 2005. What was it about 2005? Everyone thought, “Heh i could have had a Blog”? Then it turned out to be tougher than they thought. People died? What?
The Greenhouse Effect
There is a tremendous amount of misinformation about the greenhouse being spread, in large part by PACs (Political Action COmmittees) funded by the oil, coal, and gas industries, such as the “Greening Earth Society” . So, what’s the reality? First, it’s important to understand how it relates to something of increasing concern – hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. The increasing frequency of strong hurricanes is also giving yet another conformation of the models. (more…)
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This Blog is current and while listed as a Green Blog it deals with Energy quite a bit:
Google Gets Behind Smart Meters & Monitoring
Posted by davidwfox on 10 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: energy efficiency, my-new-house
Smart meters and energy monitors have been around for years, but Google wants to bring this empowering technology to a much larger audience. Count me in!
Google’s mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and we believe consumers have a right to detailed information about their home electricity use. We’re tackling the challenge on several fronts, from policy advocacy to developing consumer tools, and even investing in smart grid companies.
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I guess quitting a Blog and giving it up is not as bad as what happened to this blog…Hope it doesn’t happen to CES.
Blog has been removed
Sorry, the blog at alteng.blogspot.com has been removed. This address is not available for new blogs.
Did you expect to see your blog here? See: ‘I can’t find my blog on the Web, where is it?‘
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owch…In the same vane, it’s hard to tell whether this site is alive or dead. The last post on the home page is December 2008.
Recent Podcast
Submitted by ben on Mon, 05/19/2008 – 22:21.
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tWP79: Building a Wind Farm (11MB, 28min)
Mike Jablonicky from Canadian Hydro Developers is on the show giving us the inside scoop on building a $410 million, 198MW wind farm.
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There is even a fasinating look at “Conservation Psychology” on their BB..
http://www.thewatt.com/node/191
Conservation psychology – What’s it gonna take?
Submitted by C Robb on Thu, 04/24/2008 – 11:37.
On the recent Watt podcast panel discussion the group touched on conservation psychology a couple of times. Here is a paper I’m working on relating to conservation psychology and off grid RE systems.
The convergence of peak oil, topsoil depletion, freshwater shortages, and climate change require massive societal change in a short time. Can we make the necessary adjustments to our lifestyles in advance in order to learn to thrive with less but also possibly head off the worst effects of these converging challenges? If we accept that these threats are real then we have less than a decade to drastically cut levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
“…… the global output per head should be reduced to 0.537t by 2050. The UK currently produces 9.6 tonnes per head and the US 23.6t. Reducing these figures to 0.537t means a 94.4% cut in the UK and a 97.7% cut in the US. But the world population will rise in the same period. If we assume a population of 9bn in 2050, the cuts rise to 95.9% in the UK and 98.3% in the US.” (Monbiot 04/12/2007)
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But it is 24 weeks and 5 days (days?) old. It looks like they veered off into Twitter and Podcasts. Maybe the Cutting Edge got them.
http://www.thewatt.com/node/195
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But I am too old for such things so if a Commenter could explain this that would be great. Finally, you could be like this Blogger and post every 6 months or so….what a luxury:
Recycle water from your morning shower
I just came across this Canadian invention that lets you reuse the thermal energy from your shower. The great thing about is that is so simple and it is has no moving parts meaning no energy consumption. The downside is that it has to be build in with your drain. This is on my list for my future house. Check it out at http://www.ecodrain.ca/
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