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IE Questions: What Size Wind Generator Does An Average House Need?
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What size wind generator does an average house need? To answer the question, you have to figure out: Are you a good candidate for a home wind turbine?
electric cars
Colorado Pushes Electric Vehicle Tax Credits
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Colorado is offering tax credits for those buying electric cars. The state’s program is one of the highest offers in the country — up to $6,000 back on your state taxes. It’s one way the state is hoping to reduce its carbon footprint. And so far, it seems to be working. Cabell Hodge, policy advisor for the Colorado Energy Office says there are approximately 6,300 electric cars on the road in Colorado now, compared to 20 in 2011.
sustainability
Watch the Documentary ‘Feasting on Fuel’
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How much energy did it take to make your dinner? Our food takes a lot of fossil fuel to produce. From the field to grocery stores and your kitchen, our food system demands more electricity each year. Inside Energy and Harvest Public Media teamed up to look at where that energy goes and how some are trying to curb the industry’s appetite for electricity.
A Watched Pot
A Watched Pot: What Is The Most Energy Efficient Way To Boil Water?
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What is the most energy efficient way to boil water? And which method has the smallest carbon footprint? The familiar act of boiling water lets us examine how the choices we make daily roll up to global energy consumption.
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Wage Theft Claims Surge As Oil Prices Fall
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Continuing low oil prices have left tens of thousands of oil workers out of a job.
Now, a growing number of them are turning to the courts, saying they weren’t paid fairly when times were good.
bankruptcy
What Happened To Coal?
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To many, it seems the fall of the coal industry has happened almost overnight. Inside Energy’s Leigh Paterson looks at the perfect storm of factors behind coal’s decline.
carbon capture
Looking Into Coal’s Future
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Is it possible to reduce reduce CO2 emissions while continuing to use and burn coal? Coal producing regions hope so. Inside Energy’ s Leigh Paterson reports.
Aliso Canyon
Video: What Coloradans Need To Know About Methane Leaks
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Inside Energy’s Jordan Wirfs-Brock explains how and why the massive methane leak from an underground natural gas storage facility in California matters to Colorado and to the oil and gas industry here.
marijuana
Marijuana’s Electric Bills Are Sky High
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Pot is a booming business in Colorado, selling more than 112,000 pounds of bud in 2015. But growing weed takes loads of electricity, racking up high energy bills for growers.
