Re: Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds

The car example was a bad example. The AM auto industry will go
bankrupt yet because they still make junk. Cadillac just announced a
new model with 500hp and a 6.2l engine.

I swore after all the insults I have owned I would never...ever
purchase another N.American style vehicle after purchasing two Camrys
(made in the US). Well I made a huge mistake and purchased a used 2001
Chev S-10 pickup to do my construction work on my new home. Big
mistake and I kick myself for not sticking to my guns. I have spent
more repair money on that piece of trash in the last year than I spent
total on my two Camrys since 1994. And yet, I am sitting on another
repair of the ABS brake system that won't stop the truck and
contemplating taking my second American style truck to the junkyard at
their 6 year old mark. Just absolute junk and they (the Am auto mfg.)
deserve to go right down the tubes. You can lead a horse to water...

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I saw that article. There was another a few weeks back (NYT, IIRC)
about a
company that manufactures equipment to generate electricity using
waste
heat
from smokestacks. The potential savings from both ideas is huge
(4-5 times
the savings from CFLs) but most utilities are guaranteed a rate of
return
on
investment so they have no interest in reducing their plant &
equipment -
the more they waste, the more they profit.

What worries me the most is that we'll adopt a long term solution
that add
mercury to the environment before we thoroughly review all the
alternatives
that don't pose a mercury threat. California seems to be heading in
that
unfortunate direction, though.

The smokestack generators could even be combined with scrubbers to
remove
mercury and other pollutants.

As I said to Bill (and I KNOW you're old enough to remember the
exhaust of a
high compression 1960's V-8!), the carmakers whined that it couldn't
be done
and the auto industry lost ground to foreign autos that it never
recovered.
We shouldn't let that history repeat itself.

But congress isn't likely to take on the electric power industry
from
whence
cometh campaign funds. Instead, they force CFLs on consumers. It's
a
twofer
as they can also collect campaign funds from Philips and Wallmart.

Spawlmart *could* do it right, or at least better than they're doing
with
in-store recycling and realistic cash deposits built into the cost
of the
bulb to encourage recycling. But mandating a technology that's
clearly not
up to the technical specs of what it's replacing smacks very much of
Big
Business and its captive Congress to punish people for demanding a
cleaner
environment. Just like Big Auto tried to pass on much more than
what it
cost them to add pollution control equipment. Young whippersnappers
probably don't remember how bitter a battle that was.

--
Bobby G.





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