Greener Air Conditioning for a Warmer World
Ensemble approach offers path to energy-saving air conditioning
Ensemble approach offers path to energy-saving air conditioning
If we can credit a spate of reports this fall, the climate change discussion has begun to move toward common—and more mutually profitable—ground. Decisionmakers have begun to think about climate business: economic and climate action together. Treehuggers, this isn’t just something the Fortune 100 has cooked up to distract gullible … [continued]
Carbon dioxide gets a lot of press by virtue of the sheer quantities with which we pump it into our atmosphere, but it is by no means the worst of the greenhouse gasses humanity is exhaling with each day that goes by. One such greenhouse gas that poses a much … [continued]
Greenhouse gases trap heat from the sun and warm the planet’s surface. Of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the majority are related to energy consumption, and most of those are carbon dioxide. From 1990 to 2011, energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in the United States increased by about 0.4% per year. … [continued]
The recently much touted alternative “energy only” bill would not cost fossil industries, but instead would cost taxpayers $13.9 billion a year, according to this scoring by the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office – that has been gathering dust since September. This failing grade from the CBO has received no publicity … [continued]
The newest iteration of the climate bill in congress has just been scored by the non partisan congressional budget office and, as for the two previous climate bills (Waxman and Boxer), finds that Kerry-Graham-Lieberman would save money.