Energy and Climate Change

Doubts about carbon neutrality could well alter the future of the biomass industry in Washington state and elsewhere. Thanks to its forests, the state is among the nation’s largest producers of biomass power, generating enough to meet electricity demands of Tacoma and Spokane.

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Take a water tour with us through your home, yard, diet, and transportation and consumer choices!

Making LEDs microchip manufacturing methods could slash the cost of lighting.

Apparently, the discovery was made by accident. The researchers were studying carbon particles in soil and added gold particles to boost the laser signals. They found that carbon and gold particle chains would form wherever they moved the laser.

"Energy efficiency is the low hanging fruit in our energy orchard and we need to aggressively pursue all reasonable cost-effective opportunities," Otter said. "By aggressively pursuing energy efficiency we free up capacity on our transmission system and make more energy available to help businesses expand."

With skyrocketing fuel prices gouging other school budgets across the state, the Darby School District is thanking their lucky stars they were able to install a biomass boiler back in 2003.

Water is a paradoxical commodity: It seems free and plentiful, yet its supply is under tremendous strain.

Water, usually thought of as soothing and caressing, is surprisingly heavy — and surprisingly destructive.

All of this, then, to recover what nature didn’t finish cooking. Is it worth it? Not in my book. Let’s spend our energy development dollars on more promising technologies that leave wild country in peace.