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Post Cap & Trade, Manufacturing Jobs Will Move To US States With Greener Power, Not China
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States that could, in the future, attract manufacturing jobs using low reliance on coal as a marketing tool. Image credit: J.Laumer, with USEIA data.
A few days ago I asserted that total coal consumption per state is a more useful metric than coal dependency for electricity. In this post, which borrows a graphic from the linked one, I'd like to take the insight to the next level.
Job "leakage," from here on out, is also an interstate game.
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Liquid crystal switching windows have been around for a while, and just last week Mike wrote about how 
NoMix Toilet. Photo: Flickr
Technological Innovations in the Bathroom? You Bet!
Being green is all about solving problems and grabbing overlooked opportunities. It turns out that there's such a double-win in most bathrooms around the world; if we had "NoMix" toilets that separate urine from solid waste, municipal wastewater plants would have a significantly easier task (and produce more methane to generate electricity), and we could much more easily extract precious nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen for use as fertilizer (instead of using fossil fuels). So what's stopping us from going NoMix?...
Image: MIT
Could Store Power at 100x More Energy/Weight Than Lithium-Ion
A team of scientists at MIT has discovered a new way to generate power with carbon nanotubes. In a paper titled "
