Quick take for Inflation Reduction Act 2022 The Inflation Reduction Act is a huge legislation act passed in 2022. It includes increases in taxes (mostly corporate related), limits to some spending (like drugs), and a lot toward energy efficiency and renewable energy. See the overview on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act_of_2022 Renewable Energy Incentives. The IRA has raised and extended the 30% investment tax credit to qualified renewable energy investments. There are many limitations and additions. Look for…
ipZine: The world’s first super light folding electric bike | YikeBike: This posted over at ipZine. ( The world’s first super light folding electric bike | YikeBike: ) Even cooler than the Segway, and multiple times as functional. Give a look at this YikeBike. When you see this bike, you will say Yikes! It is reminisce of the old High Wheeler bikes with the monster wheel in front, and no gears (1-speed). But with a twist. The question to ask…
Natural gas, the media’s failures, and you « The Cost of Energy: Ouch! “The Cost of Energy” Lou Grinzo blogs (and reblogs) about how unclear NatGas really is. It all has to do with the Methane released from the fracking. See the reprint of the blog at EthicsAndClimate.org from Dr. Brown. Sadly NatGas may really not be cleaner than Coal. How dirty is that! Here’s my comments over to Lou’s post. Okay, as always, your…
Every couple months something pops into my news feed or email about how bad or expensive Electric Vehicles (EVs) are compared to the olde Internal Combustion Engine (ICE machines). (See cartoon from Yale Climate Connection Don’t be fooled: Electric vehicles really are better for the climate.) One that popped up was from a very biased web site (can’t call it a magazine or journal). The cost for EVs to operate were $17 per gallon, equivalent….
The SustainZine has been blogging (although rather sporadically) for 11 years. Wow!. One of the first blogs was related to an article (and a SAM presentation) by Hall, Tayler, Zapalski and Hall (2009). It focused on sustainability in Higher ED, specifically on how the facilities of universities were doing sustainability initiatives but there were few actual classes on Sustainability. The classroom, i.e., the future of sustainability was far behind. Later in 2010 Hall (2010) published…
Imagine a great idea that is entirely possible with new technology coming down the pipeline from various sources. That is what an article in Scientific American by Richard Conniff envisions based on a paper published in the Nature Communications which proposes a partial remedy based on A/C units: Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (or HVAC) systems move a lot of air. Dittmeyer, Klumpp, Kant and Ozin (2019) describe the idea of using renewable energy from…
