Taking a fresh look at solar energy’s benefits | Highlands Today: Local article to Central Florida. It is good to see some movement on solar. Great. We all need to be more sustainable. Glad to see Coronado Solar getting out there and making it happen. Couple areas that aren’t precise. Probably lost something in the translation. Payback on solar hot water is usually 2 to 4 years. Really good ROI for pools (unless you like…
NextEra Energy Resources commissions its 10,000th megawatt of wind energy – 12/18/12: NextEra (FPL by an older name) now produces enough Wind Power to run a city the size of Chicago, or it will. Rather cool is to check out the company’s Sustainability Report. http://www.nexteraenergy.com/news/index.shtml This will give you an indication of what power generation companies should be talking about in terms of their production capacity and their carbon footprint. For example: “In 2011, 52 million tons of…
Better BTU Blog: Global Climate Change Summit Brings Questions of America’s Role in Reversing Carbon Trends: Great article on the point that no government is leading on sustainability, at least in terms of those countries that count, namely the US, China and maybe India. It is amazing and surprising that conservation and energy efficiency (EE) efforts don’t move forward even without any government assistance or encouragement. A kilowatt or gallon never used is one that…
Check out the workings for markets in Carbon…Cap n trade, tax and trade, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Australia does Carbon Tax and shift. Texas sets up a Carbon Exchange. California has a huge lift in the prices of Carbon allocations (CCA) because of the down time of a nuclear power plant. Overall, the price per ton of carbon is now at between $8 and $23.Anything above free, is probably a very good thing for the true…
These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. There are three things that are prominently in the news about carbon emissions and addressing them in June of 2012. These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. Australia is opening up a Carbon Tax at $23 per ton. They are adjusting from the mistakes of Europe when they started cap and trade at…
Marine scientist champions Blue Carbon: “Seagrass meadows act as a massive carbon sink, capable of storing as much carbon as forests. There’s only one problem: due to poor watershed management and declining water quality near shorelines, seagrasses are disappearing at alarming rates.” [Italics added.] Great! We can get sea grass to function as a massive sink for CO2. There’s lots of ocean with lots of room for seagrass. The only one, small, tiny problem: we’re…
