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The energy villain in your neighborhood In 2001, an entrepreneur named Tom Casten traveled down to southern Louisiana, near the small town of Franklin, with… Read more
The Midwest and South have become the Colossus of Carbon: coal-dependent, with resistance to climate change legislation from the left and the right. Progressives from… Read more
Tom Casten has the money and the know-how to generate huge amounts of clean power without bothering with costly solar and wind energy. West Virginia’s… Read more
Industrial energy efficiency will put a million Americans to work…
EPA should make energy efficiency front and center…
Brookings and Hoover Institutions agree on energy efficiency…
Report calls on FERC to reform unreasonably low prices of clean electricity…
A new hospital is being built near Princeton, N.J., that won't depend on the local electricity grid, won't pump out the normal amount of greenhouse gases and won't pay peak prices for electricity.
The University Medical Center of Princeton will have its own power plant that will use natural gas to make electricity; the heat generated as a byproduct will create steam to heat the building, sterilize equipment and provide cooling.
Interest in this kind of combined heat and power has been growing as U.S. energy prices rise, old plants near retirement and the country begins to get more serious about reducing global warming pollution. Read more
By Tom Casten
Energy waste is pervasive. Policymakers don’t seem to see it, but ask virtually any school kid to draw a picture of a power plant and you’ll see something resembling Homer Simpson’s, where massive columns of waste heat are vented into… Read more
Barriers: Breaking through energy recycling obstacles
Manufacturing and climate change