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Efficiency, Substitution and Innovation isn’t All It is Cracked Up to Be
Posted by Sharon Astyk on April 26, 2011
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About a month ago I had the privilege of spending an hour talking (on stage, in front of an audience) to my congressman, Paul Tonko, about energy issues and preparedness. What emerged from this discussion was that *EVEN THOUGH* Tonko is one of the best congresspeople out there on energy and environmental issues, even though…
Energy Return and Rate of Return
Posted by Sharon Astyk on December 23, 2009 I was just laboring over a post designed to explain the relationship between energy returned over energy invested and the importance of the *rate* of that return for our expectations about future resources, when I found out that Dr. Tom Konrad had already done this – yay! I think this is a useful and clear…