NIMBY, but I still want the electricity
There are some modern tehcnologies that can be wireless, especially digital tech from radio and TV to data and Internet. Not so with electricity.
There are some modern tehcnologies that can be wireless, especially digital tech from radio and TV to data and Internet. Not so with electricity.
A new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control indicates that lead can be harmful to children even in low concentrations.
Rising sea levels get engineers' attention.
Smart appliances aware of electric grid demand and prices.
Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo.
On site observers find Arctic ice thinner, softer than satellite data indicated.
EcoFactor signs deal to save energy for customers of Texas's largest utility.
Lots of petroleum-derived materials in today's automobile. Gone is the chrome plating and wooden dashboards of yore.
Today President-elect Obama was specific in his call for more spending on energy conservation and on production of alternative, not-fossil-fuel-based, energy. Some items on the Obama wish list for his hoped-for stimulus plan: double alternative energy production in three years, construct a smarter electric grid to reduce waste, spending on insulation and other conservation moves.
An update to the most recent IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] report warns that even smaller temperature increases could mean even larger real life changes than earlier IPCC projections. This study was authored by a panel of scientists whoare members of the IPCC.