Efficiency is the way to go
Check out this article posted on Salon by Joseph Romm “Why we never need to build another polluting power plant”. It details how we could use efficiency to reduce our greenhouse gases without having to build more power plants.
A couple of highlights from the article:
- While a few states have energy-efficiency strategies, none matches what California has done. In the past three decades, electricity consumption per capita grew 60 percent in the rest of the nation, while it stayed flat in high-tech, fast-growing California.
- …In the 1990s, the Energy Department began forming partnerships with energy-intensive industries to develop clean technologies. We worked with scientists and engineers to identify areas of joint research into technologies that would simultaneously save energy, reduce pollution and increase productivity. The Bush administration slashed funding for this program by 50 percent — and keeps trying to shut it down entirely.
—MoGo (Maureen on the Go)
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