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Month: September 2010

Factoid: Northeast Heating Oil Consumption

This factoid comes from the Fall 2010 issue of Northeast Sun from the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. As a region, the Northeast is highly reliant on heating oil. The region consumes 80.3% of all the heating oil in the US. In fact, each year the Northeast consumes about 5.5 billion gallons per year of heating […]

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The Anti-Sunscreen

If you are into solar energy, there is some good news on the horizon. According to research by a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, embedding a small amount of selenium into a mostly zinc-oxide base, dramatically boosts the material’s efficiency in absorbing light. Currently the cost and performance of many photo-voltaic systems is prohibitive […]

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Biomass to … Antifreeze and Plastic Bottles?!?

Begin with some wood chips, some solid chemistry, and add a good dose of luck and you get — plastic? Some chemists at Iowa State University uncovered a potentially game-changing method for making antifreeze, polyester and plastic bottles out of biomass rather than petroleum. The conversion process is based on the chemistry of super-critical fluids […]

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Google PowerMeter: Personal Energy Use

Warning: This post is for geeks only, but lets be honest, it is pretty cool. Google’s PowerMeter (now on limited trial) shows your home’s real-time energy use on a smart phone or web browser. The energy monitoring software needs hardware–a hook-up to the electrical power system–in order to work, but that is just a detail. […]

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Winter 2011 Outlook – The Return of Winter?

Earlier this week, the Maine-based Farmers’ Almanac issued its winter outlook for both the United States and Canada. the almanac. The Farmers’ Almanac, which claims 80 to 85 percent accuracy bases its predictions on a secret mathematical formula using the position of the planets, tidal action of the moon and sunspots. The almanac says that […]

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