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Changing the energy game with the ‘power of one’

By Elisa Wood
Real Energy Writers

Who among us has not eagerly described the smart meter to a non-energy person only to be greeted by a blank stare, or worse the retort: “Why would I want to track my electricity costs all day?” You try to explain the profound applications: smart appliances that talk to the power grid, consumer clubs that sell energy savings, your car ...

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Notus Clean Energy LLC – Cape Cod, MA - Case Study

Boreal Renewable Energy Development

The owners of a Falmouth, MA industrial park parcel saw the potential in 2004 for a utility-scale wind turbine sited in a large, well-elevated location. A large turbine could supply electricity for the complex and create surplus power that could be delivered back to a regional utility. Despite receiving more than 100 letters of support from ...

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Managing GHG emissions from agriculture: a unique but solvable challenge

By Stephen Russell
World Resources Institute WRI

Thousands of companies have developed greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories in recent years as a crucial first step towards measuring and ultimately reducing their emissions. Agricultural emissions are a large part of many of those inventories: farming is currently responsible for between 10 and 12 percent of global GHG ...

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How the EPA’s new oil and gas standards will reduce greenhouse gas emissions

By Michael Obeiter
World Resources Institute WRI

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued final rules to reduce air pollution at natural gas wells and other sources in the oil and gas industry. The rules—a New Source Performance Standard (NSPS) for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and National Emissions Standards for hazardous air ...

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Model forecasts long-term impacts of forest land-use decisions

Soil Science Society of America

The drive to develop crops for use as biofuel, continues to raise questions about additional uses of forest land. A cutting edge computer model developed at North Carolina State University offers detailed insight to predict the environmental impact – along with understanding forest ecosystem response to global climate change. ...

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Peatlands – guidance for climate change mitigation by conservation, rehabilitation and sustainable use

By Hans Joosten
Wetlands International

Peatlands provide many important ecosystem services, including water regulation, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration and storage. Because of the enormous size of the peat carbon pool, its high sensitivity for disturbance, the large emissions from a small land area (which continue long after conversion), and the virtual ...

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World`s Most Advanced and Easiest to Use Sonic Water Level Meters

By Borehole Water Journal
Eno Scientific

A common theme among drillers and environmental monitoring companies is the need to repeatedly measure water levels and until recently that meant constantly lowering and raising heavy measurement tapes. If you were lucky they wouldn't get stuck or break off leading to spoiled test results and expensive repairs. Eno Scientific has solved ...

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