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Efficient Processes
Energy Efficiency is Key to Climate Change Mitigation
This article discusses the role that the man-made Enhanced Greenhouse Effect (EGE) plays in global climate change. While considerable uncertainty remains about the efficacy of global climate change models and methodologies, there is no uncertainty about the enhanced greenhouse effect and the causal relationship it plays in the warming of our planet...
ISO 14000 and Global Energy Management
ISO 14001 is an environmental management system (EMS) standard, but where the burning of fossil fuels is concerned it might also be considered an energy management system standard...
Energy Efficiency in Wastewater Treatment Plants
The pressures to use our energy resources efficiently have never been greater. Energy engineers in all sectors of the economy are striving to keep electricity costs, and therefore net purchases, to a minimum by increasing operating efficiencies and reducing overall energy consumption in their installations. But, at the end of it all, we’re still growing. More people, more businesses, more energy demands, the world over...
Efficient Technologies
Lighting—The Next Generation
A lighting technology with better color temperature and color rendering index than incandescent, better lamp life than fluorescent, at an efficiency of 100 lumens per watt? ...
Energy Conservation
To Drill or Not to Drill
This column is about the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and its role in Florida’s energy future. Much is being made about reducing America’s dependence on imported oil and the positive impacts for Alaska’s economy by including a provision for oil exploration in ANWR in the Energy Policy Act of 2003 currently being hammered out by a conference committee in the U.S. Congress. The House and Senate chairmen of the conference committee, both Republicans, and the President, want to include ANWR exploration in the energy bill although a proposal to open the refuge failed 48-50 in the Senate’s version of the bill earlier this year...
Energy Efficiency is Key to Climate Change Mitigation
A great many of the world’s leading scientists believe that the Earth’s atmosphere is gradually warming and that this warming is perturbing our climate systems. Further, it is believed that the warming is being caused by the accumulation of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, primarily carbon dioxide released as the result of burning fossil fuels...
Clean Fuels
Nothing is ‘too wonderful to be true’
I have an idea that if scientist Michael Faraday were alive today, he might repeat his famous saying upon reviewing the promise of fossil fuel cells...
Community Initiatives
Energy Policy — and You
As this issue of ENERGY NEWS is being published (November 10th) there is expectation that the Republican-written H.R. 6 Energy Policy Act of 2003 is at last being revealed to the members of the joint House-Senate Conference Committee that will decide its fate....
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