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Obama, Poker and What 2010 Holds for Energy Efficiency

Tip his hand? In fact, as Stewart pointed out, Obama has shown that hand broadly to the world for the last year. Starting with his January 2009 inaugural speech, Obama buoyed the clean energy industry by advancing renewable energy, a first for a US president in that forum. But that turned out to be just the start. In talk after talk this year, he

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Meeting on new gas plant in Mississippi

The U.S. Department of Energy and Mississippi Gasification, which has planned a $2 billion energy project in Moss Point, will hold a public meeting on the

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A Energy Use Rating on An Existing Home ... Interested?

Here’s an interesting concept. Gather information about the true cost of energy consumption of the home you intend to purchase “before” you buy it. Now that’s a concept! Can you think of any other purchase you’ll make where information before the cash register rings might “steer” you away from buying? How about owning an automobile?

If

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Efficiency left out of cap and trade

Here’s what I took away: Energy efficiency helps the carbon reduction cause. But the carbon reduction cause doesn’t do much for

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Energy Head Tilters for this Week

Too poor to attend school anymore William Kamkwamba went to a US-sponsored library to try to keep up on his learning. There the Malawian boy found diagrams for building windmills and painstakingly followed the directions to bring electricity and water to his famine-stricken village. He scavenged for junk and found old bike parts, pipes and fans to make it work. His fellow villagers

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Tankless Water Heaters- Efficient but Not Necessarily Economical

Heating water accounts for up to 30 percent of the average home’s energy budget. Some makers of gas-fired tankless water heaters claim their products can cut your energy costs up to half over regular storage heaters. So is it time to

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Economic Restoration or Do We Need More?

Energy Savings

In today’s struggling economy are the dollars our representatives voted to spend on the recovery being spent wisely? Do our leaders fully understand the philosophical shift that must take place in America if we are to truly shift our dependence on foreign oil? Will the waste continue?

Dr. Dan Chiras is the President of

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