Plug in America

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I charge at night, when rates are lowest, so there’s a speck of non-renewable energy in my battery. “I was absolutely floored by Gore’s presentation and said, ‘I’ve got to try thinking of what to do.’ ” Meanwhile, solar power has never been cheaper. Hello hope. Well, almost none.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 22, 2009

If you’ve followed The Adventures of the Solagnelist thus far you know that I am seriously jonesing to generate all my electricity from my own rooftop solar power. But only 16% of that power is from renewable energy generation through the power mix Southern California Edison provides.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love. Several early models of passenger vehicles have enough energy stored in advanced batteries to power several homes for hours. Hybrid electric buses and heavy trucks could power many homes or a school or a hospital in an emergency. ► January (13) What Goes Down, Must Go Up?

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

greater investment in technologies that are either more nascent or have had trouble getting off the ground, including: nuclear fusion, a long-held dream that is just this side of physically impossible but that would simultaneously be far safer and more powerful than the nuclear fission approach that’s been used to date.

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Had national and economic security trumped the power of oil and auto companies, a large percentage of cars would run today on cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas. But we can use the electricity generated with each to power plug-in cars. Tags: joe romm pickens plan t boone pickens al gore cng.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

It was there because the cover story was “Among the Ancients, Giant Sequoias of the Sierra&# Another article headline that made the cover, “Is Al Gore Our Great Green Hope?&#. Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 4, 2011

It was there because the cover story was “Among the Ancients, Giant Sequoias of the Sierra” Another article headline that made the cover, “Is Al Gore Our Great Green Hope?” Light rail and high speed rail boomed in the 8 Gore years and the American economy soared in the new clean energy renaissance.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 16, 2009

“ Cisco Devries, President of Renewable Funding gives his presentation on the groundbreaking BerkeleyFIRST program to the conference. For Cisco Devries it was Al Gore scaring the bejeezus out of him with “ An Inconvenient Truth.&# But first he offered to do some karaoke.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2009

org He’s in Washington DC with thousands, protesting the coal-fired Capitol Power plant–a dirty symbol of our dirty energy history. Along with Al Gore , Dr. James Hansen and Joe Romm , Bill Mckibben is one of the climate change activists I admire most. It’s happening right now.

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