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Infrastructure investments can be transformative
While I agree with Mr. Spitzer's policy recommendations as to the much needed infrastructure improvements to our energy sector, I disagree that brick and mortar infrastructure can not be transformative. While there is the potential for the infrastructure investments to be wasted by continuing with the status quo there is also a huge opportunity to ...
Posted to The Best Policy by longjosh on January 5, 2009
CFL Fraud
The real problem with CFLs is that the wattages are artificially inflated. The reason they cost less to operate is because they only put out half as much light as their equivalent wattage incandecent bulbs. The same savings could be achieved by substituting 60 watt incandecent bulbs for 100 watt ones - with the same result - less ...
Posted to The Green Lantern by johnjohn2 on February 8, 2008
Re: way better than landfills and coal.
Virtually all materials: nuclear, bio-waste, coal, petroleum, municiple waste, etc can be recycled by using ''plasma gasification''. Convert all of these to syngas, produce electricity with little to no emisions! Want to know more, read my book ''Plasma at Work'' available on amazon.com.
Posted to The Green Lantern by Plasma-Man on January 9, 2008