Re: Digital Tools Help Users Save Energy, Study Finds

["John J. Bengii" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The car example was a bad example. The AM auto industry will go
bankrupt yet because they still make junk. Cadillac just announced a
new model with 500hp and a 6.2l engine.

I swore after all the insults I have owned I would never...ever
purchase another N.American style vehicle after purchasing two Camrys
(made in the US). Well I made a huge mistake and purchased a used 2001
Chev S-10 pickup to do my construction work on my new home. Big
mistake and I kick myself for not sticking to my guns. I have spent
more repair money on that piece of trash in the last year than I spent
total on my two Camrys since 1994. And yet, I am sitting on another
repair of the ABS brake system that won't stop the truck and
contemplating taking my second American style truck to the junkyard at
their 6 year old mark. Just absolute junk and they (the Am auto mfg.)
deserve to go right down the tubes. You can lead a horse to water...

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> I saw that article. There was another a few weeks back (NYT, IIRC)
>> about a
>> company that manufactures equipment to generate electricity using
>> waste
> heat
>> from smokestacks. The potential savings from both ideas is huge
>> (4-5 times
>> the savings from CFLs) but most utilities are guaranteed a rate of
>> return
> on
>> investment so they have no interest in reducing their plant &
>> equipment -
>> the more they waste, the more they profit.
>
> What worries me the most is that we'll adopt a long term solution
> that add
> mercury to the environment before we thoroughly review all the
> alternatives
> that don't pose a mercury threat.  California seems to be heading in
> that
> unfortunate direction, though.
>
>> The smokestack generators could even be combined with scrubbers to
>> remove
>> mercury and other pollutants.
>
> As I said to Bill (and I KNOW you're old enough to remember the
> exhaust of a
> high compression 1960's V-8!), the carmakers whined that it couldn't
> be done
> and the auto industry lost ground to foreign autos that it never
> recovered.
> We shouldn't let that history repeat itself.
>
>> But congress isn't likely to take on the electric power industry
>> from
> whence
>> cometh campaign funds. Instead, they force CFLs on consumers. It's
>> a
> twofer
>> as they can also collect campaign funds from Philips and Wallmart.
>
> Spawlmart *could* do it right, or at least better than they're doing
> with
> in-store recycling and realistic cash deposits built into the cost
> of the
> bulb to encourage recycling.   But mandating a technology that's
> clearly not
> up to the technical specs of what it's replacing smacks very much of
> Big
> Business and its captive Congress to punish people for demanding a
> cleaner
> environment.  Just like Big Auto tried to pass on much more than
> what it
> cost them to add pollution control equipment.  Young whippersnappers
> probably don't remember how bitter a battle that was.
>
> --
> Bobby G.
>
>
>