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    Tucson Electric Halts Residential Solar Incentives Due to Fu

    http://www.snl.com/InteractiveX/article.aspx?ID=13313685" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; [Notice: The emphasized section is by me. Yodrak] By Jeff Stanfield Last Updated: 9/15/2011 Sources Misc: Tucson Electric Power Co. 9/9/2011 Tucson Electric Power Co. on Sept. 13...
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    CLOSING PUBLIC PARKS

    Heard on NPR this morning - a mayor of a city in, if I recall correctly, Michigan, talking about selling off many of his city's public parks as one of the steps being taken to keep the city's budget under control. Not an exact quote, but he said something like "We don't need 26 neighborhood...
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    States Won't Give Higher Rates to Wind

    An interesting news item illutrating how some wind developers (the example one is a big-oil company) are seekng to charge higher rates for their energy by manipulating the size and number of their projects, and how public utility commissions do what they are supposed to do - keep the price of...
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    Gas guzzlers, EVs and the Need for Speed

    From: http://www.intelligentutility.com/article/10/09/gas-guzzlers-evs-and-need-speed Among other things, the article mentions SDG&E's EV TOU pilot program looking to sign up 1,000 participants. Gas guzzlers, EVs and the need for speed I get charged up when I talk about fast cars Kate...
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    Windshield Defrost

    I'd like to have some heating wires embedded in the windshield for the 'cold weather' package, to go along with the heated steering wheel and seats. It seems to me that in cold areas where we have to deal with winter storms, whether snow or freezing rain, it's got to be more effective to heat...
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    MPG Equivalent ?

    Not quite a Gazillion. Using some nice round numbers (double-check me on the math) - if the Leaf requires 0.25 kWhr/mile (24 kWhr takes you 100 miles, add losses in the charging) - generating electricity requires 10,000 Btu of fuel per kWhr...
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