Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you’re paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car’s cost-per-mile? And since the electricity may be generated from some other polluting source, does it really work out to be better for [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What is the so-called “smart grid” I’ve been hearing about, and how can it save energy and money?
America’s electricity grid is built upon what many consider to be an antiquated principle: Make large amounts of electricity and have it always available to end users whether they need it or not. It’s much [...]
Let me state for the record that I have been against the development of biofuels for a long time. I think it is just the taking of one kind of burning fuel and replacing it with another, and in the mean time nothing changes. We are still extracting something from the earth, lighting [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is a simple one that costs nothing and only saves money. We did this growing up and it’s more important than ever now. Do you really need to run the drying cycle of your dishwasher? Just stop the dishwasher once the wash cycle is done and prop open [...]
