We don’t need a miracle, sci-fi cure. We just need a sensible energy policy, which would do an awful lot very quickly. I’m associated with Recycled Energy Development, a company that turns manufacturers’ waste heat into 100% clean electricity and steam. The result is far higher efficiency, which means lower energy costs and greenhouse emissions. Studies done for the EPA and DoE suggest recycling energy just at manufacturing facilities (it could be done at a lot more places as well) would reduce global warming pollution by 20% — which is as much as if we took every single passenger vehicle off the road. Pretty amazing. The only reason it isn’t happening more right now is that government regulations favor inefficient utilities, making it hard for things like energy recycling to really happen on a large scale. By changing these regulations, or even by adopting a cap-and-trade plan that actually rewarded clean energy producers (most on the table just punish them less), we’d radically reduce our emissions.
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We don’t need a miracle, sci-fi cure. We just need a sensible energy policy, which would do an awful lot very quickly. I’m associated with Recycled Energy Development, a company that turns manufacturers’ waste heat into 100% clean electricity and steam. The result is far higher efficiency, which means lower energy costs and greenhouse emissions. Studies done for the EPA and DoE suggest recycling energy just at manufacturing facilities (it could be done at a lot more places as well) would reduce global warming pollution by 20% — which is as much as if we took every single passenger vehicle off the road. Pretty amazing. The only reason it isn’t happening more right now is that government regulations favor inefficient utilities, making it hard for things like energy recycling to really happen on a large scale. By changing these regulations, or even by adopting a cap-and-trade plan that actually rewarded clean energy producers (most on the table just punish them less), we’d radically reduce our emissions.