Do you want to know how to be more fuel efficient? The U.S. government, specifically the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), operates fueleconomy.gov to provide resources that help you choose more wisely and be more fuel efficient.
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Q&A session with Ken Verosub and Jeremy Gilbert immediately following the presentations they gave and which were broadcast in immediately prior Technosanity Podcast episodes.

Technosanity #17: QA session with Ken Verosub, Jeremy Gilbert

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The clothes dryer at my house seems to have broken. It’s a typical american big-as-heck clothes dryer and I’ve measured its power use as being 750 watts. Last week it stopped getting hot and hence the clothes did not dry out and the dryer just spun and spun and spun for hours. […]

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The amount of danger presented by the peak oil scenario depends on the future decline in oil production. That is, the peak oil scenario says (based on observations from around the world) that after some point of oil extraction and production the worlds oil production will inevitably enter a decline and that once world […]

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Cree Semiconductor is a market leader in high efficiency LED lighting. While the compact fluorescent lights are more efficient than incandescent the LED lighting is even more efficient. The important measure is the lumens of light output per watt of electricity.
Cree now offers XLamp XP-E cool white (5,000K - 10,000K CCT) […]

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Global Exchange operates Reality Tours providing individuals the opportunity to understand issues beyond what is communicated by the mass media and gain a new vantage point from which to view and affect US foreign policy. They organize trips to over 30 countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Rather than […]

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Reducing carbon emissions 75% by 2050 is like agreeing to stop smoking by the time your lung cancer becomes inoperable…

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ZipCar is about helping people wean themselves from car ownership. In the U.S.A. we have become car dependent and it’s difficult to live in our cities without owning a car. Strike that, it’s difficult to live here without having to occasionally drive a car to something or other. In many places it […]

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