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  • cogeneration

    Joe, I'm glad you mentioned cogeneration and energy efficiency.  To me, that's really the key here.  Sean Casten, who writes here at Grist and is the president of a company that does this stuff, has written extensively on this topic.  Over two-thirds of our greenhouse emissions come from the production of power and heat; only about a fifth comes from cars.  So what seems like a more urgent idea -- improving our abysmally inefficient power system, or increasing gas mileage standards and such?  All of the above is necessary, but I think cogeneration -- or what I prefer to refer to as a form of energy recycling, since it captures waste heat -- is the single best way to hack away at the global warming problem.  And almost no one in America knows about it.On The delayers' paradox posted 1 year, 6 months ago 13 Responses