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Carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas emission harming the planet. Carbon emissions released today will likely continue to warm the planet through global warming for in excess of one hundred years from now. However, other factors impact global warming need to be reduced or eliminated as well, although they are frequently not targets of reduction. Black carbon, also called soot, ground-level ozone and methane are some of the aforementioned important factors to global warming. However, since they are frequently localized and difficult to monitor and reduce, they have not been included in recent United Nations climate talks. Although, no international agreement has yet to be made during these talks even for carbon emissions, further pushing governments to believe including emissions like soot and ozone would be disastrous to agreements.
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UN Study: Reducing Soot And Ozone Could Minimize Local Warming
On February 9, Representatives Henry Waxman (D-CA), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Bobby Rush (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, added yet another voice to the uproar over the proposed “Dirty Air Act.” CAP’s Valeri Vasquez has the story. The draft bill by Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (R-MI) would overturn the scientific finding that carbon dioxide and other pollutants threaten public health and welfare. Waxman released a white paper from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that describes the significant economic benefits from the Clean Air Act. For instance, implementing the Clean Air Act’s public health protections would potentially amount to “2.8 percent of total U.S.
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EPA white paper spells out the health and employment costs of the Republican Dirty Air Act
LED lights have been a very efficient way of producing light for the last 4 years and each year the technology gets better. The LED manufacturing companies themselves have really increased the Lumen per watt ratios and are now increases the available applications of LED lights with the advent of globes, tubes and LED grow lights . These new LED applications not only replace the inefficient incandescent lights they also replace fluorescent lights and HID grow lights as well with lower wattage and less heat. Power Savings LED lights are known for their drastic reduction in power used to produce the same effective light when compared to HID (High Intensity Discharge) lights. The LED is the most efficient way to produce light and can be used with power from the grid or off-grid applications such as solar and battery power. The reduction in power is usually hard to see with the sticker price of an average LED application well over the price of a regular incandescent or HID light.
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LED Lights vs HID Lights
Michael Kanellos at Greentech media has a story about an interesting concept for energy reduction that is new to me: switching a data center to DC power. SAP is making some energy retrofits to save money, and while the three biggest savers are the usual ones that we all know about (substitute a solar array for utility power, switch lighting to LEDs, cut airfares by videoconferencing, ) the fourth caught my attention. SAP is converting their data center to DC. Solar panels make power in DC current, and they lose some efficiency by having to be converted (that’s what inverters ..
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SAP Data Center to Go DC to Save Big Bucks
Sir Richard Branson, the brash, suave, billionaire adventurer has suggested that a carbon tax can stave off a global climate crisis, as long as it is systemically and equitably implemented. In Cancún for the UN climate talks, Branson suggested that businesses and entrepreneurs could reach emission reduction goals if world governments were unable to reach
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Billionaire Richard Branson Calls For a Global Carbon Tax