Energy Policy

noel on February 24th, 2012

Especially in election years!! In this Huffington Post interview, U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres comments on America’s unfortunate urge to straightjacket energy policy in favor of big oil. “What is always astonishing to me, is how the U.S. citizen is willing to diminish the possibility that the United States will be a leader in the [...]

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noel on February 2nd, 2012

About energy benchmarks for energy modeling. There appear to be several separate national energy codes, several California standards, and a growing number of benchmark levels. (ASHRAE/ANSI 90.1, CalGreen, California Title 24, CEC, HERS, Energy Star ratings, etc) The situation is confusing a lot of folks. Blame the engineers AND politics. Politics is in everything these [...]

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Misinformation spreads like wildfire among those who do not read or watch more than one source of news. So-called conservative groups, like the Heritage Foundation, are particularly good at confounding this group. The truth : According to Wikipedia’s Cap and trade definition, it is where …an aggregate cap on all sources is established and these [...]

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