Ford’s Electric Postal Vehicle

Power generating capacity in California may be inadequate during peak daytime loads, but in the dead of night it’s a different story altogether. Using rough numbers, California possesses about 50,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and over half comes from power plants that aren’t turned off at night, but we only use about [...]

A Cyber Research Resource Compiled by Joseph Reid

January, 1998
The Atlantic Monthly
Climate Change
by William H. Calvin
“Climate change” is popularly understood to mean greenhouse warming, which it is predicted, will cause flooding, severe windstorms, and killer heat waves. But warming could lead, paradoxically, to drastic cooling — a catastrophe that could threaten the survival of civilization.
www.theatlantic.com

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Sunday, April 1, 2001
The London Observer
Global warming. The President Who Bought Power and Sold the World
George Bush’s decision to ignore global warming and pull the plug on Kyoto is payback for the energy industries which backed him.
The story behind the singular determination of Bush to fly in the face of world opinion, the sentiments [...]

Atlantis Energy Makes Solar Beautiful

Joe Morrissey with
roof panels

When we think of home power, we often still think of roofs covered with rectangular black water heating or photovoltaic modules, propped up with struts at awkward angles to the roof in order to face south and gain maximum exposure to the sun. Aesthetically minded folk might worry [...]

Editor’s Note: EcoWorld continues its work with the John Hulls, John Joss and the Pt. Reyes Light to expose inside information about the California energy crisis as well as elucidate a workable framework for a national solution: The Pt. Reyes Light National Energy Plan.
Our articles on the California Energy Crisis have triggered communications from power-industry [...]