Comments on: Paper vs “The Coal-Fired Internet” http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/2009/10/paper-vs-the-coal-fired-internet A Resource for Today’s Green Business Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:22:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/2009/10/paper-vs-the-coal-fired-internet/comment-page-1#comment-2548 Eric Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:16:18 +0000 http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/?p=4654#comment-2548 When printers such as Phoenix Press in New Haven, CT purchase a wind turbine because utility rates are too high, you know it's the end of "business as usual" for the providers of electricity. There are great Federal rebates for renewable energy systems, and the energy is free! The cost of harnessing that energy costs something though ;) A cord of wood also has air pockets in it; perhaps wood pellets made from the byproducts of woodworking, as well as compressed paper waste would be better use? I saw a wood-powered steam pickup truck in Vermont in 2007 as a part of the Solarfest Renewable Energy Festival (Solarfest.com). I don't think wood is the future; it's natural gas. Domestic fuel, already available for transportation, and it's being generated in landfills. Coal is dead! When printers such as Phoenix Press in New Haven, CT purchase a wind turbine because utility rates are too high, you know it’s the end of “business as usual” for the providers of electricity.

There are great Federal rebates for renewable energy systems, and the energy is free! The cost of harnessing that energy costs something though ;)

A cord of wood also has air pockets in it; perhaps wood pellets made from the byproducts of woodworking, as well as compressed paper waste would be better use?

I saw a wood-powered steam pickup truck in Vermont in 2007 as a part of the Solarfest Renewable Energy Festival (Solarfest.com). I don’t think wood is the future; it’s natural gas. Domestic fuel, already available for transportation, and it’s being generated in landfills. Coal is dead!

]]> By: Tom Ashley http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/2009/10/paper-vs-the-coal-fired-internet/comment-page-1#comment-2483 Tom Ashley Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:00:55 +0000 http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/?p=4654#comment-2483 When proponents of an old technology begin grasping at straws like this, you know it's over. When proponents of an old technology begin grasping at straws like this, you know it’s over.

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