Alternative-Energy
Tax the energy giants and cut fuel bills
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Corporations make billions while our fuel prices rise over 20 percent, writes Sadie Robinson Millions of people across Britain are struggling with soaring household energy bills. The government could act to ease the pain by taxing oil and gas firms, or imposing a limit on price rises. Instead it refuses to do anything that would harm profits. EDF Energy raised its prices again last week – by 22 percent ...
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CU professor uses grass pellets as an alternative energy
Thursday, March 29th, 2007Jennie Daley Grass pellets sound more like rabbit food than a local, sustainable energy source, but a Cornell University professor hopes to change that perception.Jerry Cherney, the E.V. Baker professor of agriculture in the department of crop and soil sciences, has been working for about five years to pull together the pieces needed to create an industry around grass pellets and the stoves that burn them. The latest step ...
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