January 5th, 2009
New Meeting Schedule
New Comcast "Green Channel"
Stanford Report - "Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds"
Clean Coal?
Update: Read About Nuclear
Target "Retote" Offer
Monday 1/12/09 7:00 - First Meeting of 2009
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Hello Everyone,
Happy New Year! Did you set any resolutions to make a difference in 2009? Want to live a greener lifestyle? Are you just hoping to dig out from the December snow?
Well, let's get together, share some ideas, and get back into the swing of things.
-John
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Let's start 2009 fresh and schedule a regular monthly meeting. We can make some plans for a new year, reflect on 2008, and just say hi.
Reply to let me know what you think of meeting on "second Monday of each month". Or just come to the Windsor Chamber of Commerce on Monday 1/12/09 at 7:00 for a first meeting of the year.
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| New Comcast "Green Channel" |
I haven't seen it myself, but I hear there is a new "Green" channel on Comcast. Here is a link for more information planetgreen.discovery.com. Let me know what you think.
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| Stanford Report - "Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds" |
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An interesting report from Stanford shows that wind and solar beat politically charged alternatives such as "clean coal" and nuclear.
"He recommends against nuclear, coal with carbon capture and sequestration, corn ethanol and cellulosic ethanol, which is made of prairie grass. In fact, he found cellulosic ethanol was worse than corn ethanol because it results in more air pollution, requires more land to produce and causes more damage to wildlife."
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"Best to worst electric power sources:
1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie between nuclear power and coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
Best to worst vehicle options:
1. Wind-BEVs (battery electric vehicles) 2. wind-HFCVs (hydrogen fuel cell vehicles) 3.CSP-BEVs 4. geothermal-BEVs 5. tidal-BEVs 6. solar PV-BEVs 7. Wave-BEVs 8.hydroelectric-BEVs 9. a tie between nuclear-BEVs and coal-CCS-BEVs 11. corn-E85 12.cellulosic-E85. "
For more information, read
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/power-010709.html
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"A coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee that experts were already calling the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States is more than three times as large as initially estimated, according to an updated survey by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
...Officials at the authority initially said that about 1.7 million cubic yards of wet coal ash had spilled when the earthen retaining wall of an ash pond at the Kingston Fossil Plant, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, gave way on Monday. But on Thursday they released the results of an aerial survey that showed the actual amount was 5.4 million cubic yards, or enough to flood more than 3,000 acres one foot deep."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/27/us/27sludge.html
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