CTA Receives $1.5 Million Federal Grant For Electrified Vehicle Stalls
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The Chicago Transit Authority has received a $1.5 million federal grant from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to construct electrified vehicle stalls that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and unnecessary fuel consumption. The stalls will deliver electrical power for up to 80 vehicles and provide services such as heating and air-conditioning to vehicles that would otherwise be left idling during overnight cleaning, said a press release from Sen. Dick Durbin's office. The electricity would also help to reduce diesel consumption and emissions from parked buses in Chicago and suburban areas. "The funding announced...will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Chicago,"...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Green Party in California trying to stem shrinking numbers
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Faced with diminishing numbers, a threatening ballot measure and the perpetual challenge of being a small third party in a two-party system, the California Green Party may be fading to chartreuse. But that won't happen if a hardy core of delegates, who gathered in San Jose over the weekend for a semiannual state meeting, has its way. Still, the Greens couldn't even hold the attention of their own members. By Sunday, the meeting had shrunk by half to 40 people. Even its two candidates for governor, Laura Wells of Oakland and Deacon Alexander of Los Angeles, skipped Sunday's talks on...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Why Alternative Power Is and Will Remain Useless
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Here’s a fact you won’t see mentioned in the public policy debate over “alternative” energy: There exists no alternative energy source, no combination of alternative energy sources, and no system of combinations of alternative energy sources that can fully replace a single, coal fired electric plant built with 1930s era technology. Nada. Zero. Zilch. Yet many want to make this group of functionally useless technologies the primary energy sources for our entire civilization.
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Waste watchers? UK group fears trash-bin spies(
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LONDON — A privacy rights group says that an increasing number of Britons are having microchips and sensors attached to their trash bins. Big Brother Watch says that the number of local authorities fitting their trash bins with sensors that measure weight or other information has risen dramatically in the past year. It warns that the practice could lead to Britons being charged for how much they throw out. Big Brother Watch said Friday that 2 million Britons have electronic chips of some description embedded in their trash bins.
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Think Globally, Act Irrationally: Recycling [oldie but goodie!]
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There is a simple test for determining whether something is a resource (something valuable) or just garbage (something you want to dispose of at the lowest possible cost, including costs to the environment). If someone will pay you for the item, it's a resource. Or, if you can use the item to make something else people want, and do it at lower price or higher quality than you could without that item, then the item is also a resource. But if you have to pay someone to take the item away, or if other things made with that item cost...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Bali-Hoo: U.N Still Pushing for Global Environmental Control
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Despite the debacle of the failed Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the United Nations is pressing full speed ahead with a plan for a greatly expanded system of global environmental governance and for a multitrillion-dollar economic transfer scheme to ignite the creation of a "global green economy."
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Green Energy Jobs? Not From Obama's Big Government Meddling
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The Obama administration and its congressional allies have been promising to usher in a green economy that will create millions of new green jobs that "can't be outsourced." Many of those jobs, we're told, will come from wind and solar energy development, but other areas are supposed to benefit as well, including the automobile, construction, and ill-defined "green technology" sectors. These claims are nothing new, though they have grown more Orwellian over time. There's only one problem with all this feel-good blather: It makes no economic sense whatsoever, and where it has been tried most extensively, evidence shows that it's...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
Olympic Gold Seekers Hindered by Green Foolery(Amazing how the enviro-idiots impact us, isn't it?)
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You may have heard that the men’s 500-meter speedskating event was delayed for over an hour at Monday night’s Olympics. What you probably didn’t hear was exactly why irate skaters, coaches and fans were forced to sit around waiting for the ice to be prepared. It seems that in their zeal to be “environmentally friendly,” the Vancouver Olympic Committee decided to replace the familiar and decades-proven propane-fueled ice-resurfacers, known to ice-sport fans worldwide as Zambonis, with a prototype electric model. And, as with most business decisions clouded by liberal pressure to “go green,” this turned out to be a bad...
Published on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 03:47:44 AM
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