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Chanukah and the environment
My Jewish friends will be lighting their third Chanukah candle tonight, their menorahs re-enacting a “miracle” long ago when a cruse of oil enough for one night lasted for eight. Modern interpretation...
View ArticleSouth found lacking in efficiency
Conclusion from a new look at energy use and efficiency in the South — specifically, the profile for Kentucky: The energy efficiency policies described in this profile could set Kentucky on a course...
View ArticleOil spill, war, in energy ads
Not one mention of climate change in an new ad from VoteVets.org. It’s all national security, national security, and more national security, with scary images from war and ugly images from the BP Oil...
View ArticleWasted food an energy opportunity
You have heard me call the United States energy piggies before. Now I have even more reason to do so. Some scientists are reporting that Americans could save the energy equivalent of about 350 million...
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Huntsman told Louisville audience climate science settled
Credit: AP and C-J files. The Republican governor who appeared to out-green Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear, a Democrat, on a Louisville stage in 2008 is making presidential candidate moves. Now the U.S....
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Kentucky at 93 percent coal for electricity, with Indiana at 83 percent.
Credit: Courier-Journal files. The U.S. Energy Information Agency has updated its state-by-state energy profiles, and and facts for Indiana show it using less coal for electricity than I recalled —...
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LED lighting saves on coal use.
New LED lighting. Credit: James Bruggers I am not sure why Republicans, including presidential challenger Mitt Romney, seem to favor inefficient lighting systems that waste energy. Saving money and...
View ArticleThe greening of the home of Sarah Lynn Cunningham
A lot of people talk the talk. Nobody can accuse Sarah Lynn Cunningham of not walking the walk. As my colleague Andrew Wolfson wrote in 2004: She was 15 and wanted to report a builder for illegally...
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Some good news for coal
Source: EIA The U.S. Energy Information Agency expects coal’s portion of total electricity generation to increase in 2013 from 37.6 percent in 2012 to 39.0 percent, and then increase slightly again in...
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We spend a lot on energy, according to DOE
We may have among the cheapest electricity rates in the United States. But a new map from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that we spend the 11th most on our energy — some $4.052.84 per year per...
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