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Study finds shifts to renewable energy can drive up energy poverty

Green Car Congress

Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new study by researchers at Portland State University (PSU) and Vanderbilt University. —Julius McGee. —Julius McGee. 2019.05.024.

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Dipping Into the World’s Most Stunning Hot Springs

Baua Electric

The springs can be well maintained or trashed by careless visitors or roving livestock; the roads can be too rough for passage; the climate too hot in summer or too frigid in winter. Greta Rybus is a photojournalist based near Portland, Maine. That’s part of the ritual, too.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

His people at MidAmerican have studied clean technologies like batteries and wind power for years because of the threat of climate change. BYD currently exports gasoline-powered cars to Africa, South America, and the Middle East, but they compete on price, not quality. " Even before visiting BYD, Sokol believed in electric cars.

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