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• Thermal Energetic Performance of Vehicles

  http://www.neodymics.com/Images/EPPaper070927H.pdf
  
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  The conservation of resources is of prime importance to our growing population. A better understanding of how we use resources may be obtained through general application of the performance parameter described in this paper. Application need not be limited to [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2008, 9:29am EST
  

• An Open Letter To Ben Kenney

  Ben,
  Please come back, you ran the best podcast I've ever listened to. I've tried to find a replacement with no success. Your consistent preaching of energy efficiency combined with your suspicious disappearance makes me fear the worst. Did ExxonMobileChevronBP fly you to Russia for 'interrogation'?
  
  Seventy podcasts about [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2008, 6:03pm EST
  

• Worried about Ben - why did the Watt stop so suddenly

  I started, quite recently, to listen to the Watt Weekly from Episode 1 - and it suddenly stops at Episode 70! Ben - are you OK? There are fans out here who really like what you do and are genuinely worried about you. Mark
  
  
  
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  Posted: November 30, 2007, 5:22am EST
  

• Deadly Enbridge Pipeline Explosion

  An Enbridge pipeline exploded late Wednesday in Minnesota causing 2 deaths. This has resulted in the closure of 4 additional pipelines which is hindering Canadian exports to the US and causing a surge in oil price in New York. Workers were performing maintenance on the pipeline at the time of [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2007, 12:37pm EST
  

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  Posted: November 26, 2007, 2:24am EST
  

• Climate Change Conversations with ExxonMobil, Part 2

  This post is Part Two (of two) detailing a recent conference call discussing climate change policies between bloggers (including myself), and Ken Cohen, Vice President of Public Affairs for ExxonMobil (a full list of participating blogs and bloggers can be found at the end of this post). Part One [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2007, 8:31pm EDT
  

• Climate Change Conversations with ExxonMobil, Part 1

  A strange thing happened to me last Friday: I participated in a conference call that put humble bloggers like yours truly in a conversation with Ken Cohen, the Vice President of Public Affairs for ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded corporation in the world. The topic of the day? ExxonMobil's position [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2007, 8:30pm EDT
  

• Truck Gas Mileage Continues To Worsen

  04/21 (LWN) While there has been much talk in recent months and years about the importance of improving automobile gas mileage, statistics seem to indicate a largely opposite trend for most models of small trucks. Let's take a look at how the gas mileage of small trucks has changed over [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2007, 9:33pm EDT
  

• theWatt Podcast Episode 70

  Here is theWatt Podcast episode 70.
  
  Download: tWP70-2007-01-21.mp3 (16MB, 39min)
  
  Conversation about the energy requirements of the food we eat with Nigel Winter from the Vegan Society (UK).
  
  Hosts: Ben and Stephen
  
  Some show links:

  • Report: "Livestock a major threat to environment" (link to pdf)
  • Estimating Farm Fuel Requirements
  • Where [...]
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  Posted: January 22, 2007, 10:04pm EST
  

• Getting a Grasp on Oil Production Volumes

  Interesting article at The Oil Drum about visualizing the world's oil use as a cubic mile of oil. You really have to go to the article to check the pictures. They compare the world's oil use to the size of the Eiffel tower, and then to the energy produced [...]
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  Posted: January 20, 2007, 1:31pm EST
  

• California Climate Plan to Look at Full Life cycle

  Arnold has unveiled an interesting climate change plan in California: count CO2 produced in the entire life cycle. It has a number of consequences: for example, BP cannot sell an old dirty refinery in California and move to a state with weaker standards - they'll still be paid less by [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2007, 6:17pm EST
  

• An Inconvenient Truth On You-Tube (well, not anymore)

  Al Gore's fantastic climate change documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth", has been posted to You-Tube (update: and subsequently removed from You-Tube). Kudos goes to Calvin and his Climate Change Action blog. To watch it on theWatt, just read on!
  
  Also worth mentioning, it happened last year but we just [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2006, 10:46am EST
  

• ExxonMobil 2006 Energy Outlook

  ExxonMobil has published it's yearly energy outlook [26 page pdf file], forecasting up to 2030. There are a lot of excellent graphs and facts. The takeaway message is about the same as the last year: rising populations and wealth, tempered by efficiency increases and limited alt-energy gains, will lead [...]
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  Posted: December 19, 2006, 6:30pm EST
  

• The Rise of Chinese Alternative Energy Companies

  Dan Lewis of AEI writes that because China is undergoing "the greatest industrialisation in the history of the world", energy demand is accelerating at a very quick rate. In order to meet this demand in the next 25 years, an alternative energy revolution is vital. This article hightlights eight [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2006, 7:41pm EST
  

• theWatt Podcast Episode 69

  Season 3 of theWatt Podcast is starting up again (sorry for the delay).
  
  Here is theWatt Podcast episode 69.
  
  Download: tWP69-2006-12-03.mp3 (20MB, 50min)
  
  Conversation about nuclear power with Dr. Paul Howarth from the Dalton Nuclear Institute at the University of Manchester.
  
  Hosts: Ben and Stephen
  
  

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