Last year the website This Is Reality launched a commercial by the Coen brothers, directors of films such as Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Big Lebowski, about clean coal. The commercial, which can be seen below, paints a satirical picture of so-called clean coal technology. According to the IEA and cited on [...]
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K-Fuel: The Answer to Dirty Coal?
August 21st, 2010 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in China, Clean Technology, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts 
Tags: Coal, Denver 
View CommentsFive Friday Facts – RMI’s Reinventing Fire
July 30th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following five Friday facts come via Rocky Mountain Institute’s Reinventing Fire pamphlet. Despite new technologies, codes, and design strategies, the U.S. building stock is not much more energy efficient than it was twenty-five years ago – it uses 70 percent of the U.S. electricity, half of which is made from coal. Transportation uses 70 [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Coal, Electricity Generation, Nuclear, RMI View CommentsFive Friday Facts
June 25th, 2010 Eric Wilson The following five Friday facts come via an Economix blog post on NY Times. Carbon emissions from San Diego, San Francisco and San Jose, California were the lowest among American metropolitan areas, but “are still more than four times the emissions in the brownest Chinese city (Daqing) and 10 times as high as the household [...]
Posted in China, Conservation, Eric Wilson Tags: California, Carbon Dioxide, Coal, Energy Conservation, New York City View CommentsUtilities Get Behind Conservation
April 18th, 2010 Eric Wilson As finite resources like clean water and nonrenewable energy become scarce, utilities will need to devise ways to encourage and engender conservation measures. Although it seems a bit backward at first, utilities represent the best advocates for conservation. A unit of energy saved is cheaper than a unit of energy produced. For every watt of [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson Tags: California, Coal, Colorado, Denver, Energy Conservation, Water, Water Conservation, Xcel Energy View CommentsThe Boogieman, Phantom Loads, and Energy Vampires
March 6th, 2010 Eric Wilson Roughly half the electricity produced in this country comes from coal (EIA). In order to reduce consumption and residential lower our energy bills, it is imperative to scour one’s home for so-called energy vampires – items that draw electricity from the outlet even when they are seemingly not in use. Also referred to as the [...]
