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Our Food Processed Future: The Rising Energy Costs Of Convenience
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To learn how energy inputs into homemade and processed foods stack up, I baked a Mile High Apple pie with Chef Kathy Guler.
Renewable Natural Gas
Making Energy From Waste: The Other Natural Gas
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It takes a lot of energy to produce the food we eat, but technologies are improving to give some of that energy back to us after we’re finished with it.
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Feasting On Fuel: A Video Explainer
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This Thanksgiving our holiday feast will contain 4500 calories. Those calories are just a measure of energy, and that food was produced using fossil fuels. In this video, Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce explains how fossil fuels are, in fact, your food.
Lost in Transmission
Lost In Transmission: How Much Electricity Disappears Between A Power Plant And Your Plug?
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How much energy is lost along the way as electricity travels from a power plant to the plug in your home? This question comes from Jim Barlow, a Wyoming architect, through our IE Questions project. To find the answer, we need to break it out step by step: first turning raw materials into electricity, next moving that electricity to your neighborhood, and finally sending that electricity through the walls of your home to your outlet.
Blackout: Reinventing The Grid
Is Coal Key To Keeping The Lights On?
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New environmental regulations likely mean a shift away from coal to renewables and natural gas. But some say a significant reduction in coal-generated electricity would threaten this nation with brownouts and blackouts. Inside Energy investigates that claim.
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Coal Country Fights Proposed Royalty Hike
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The American public owns coal. About 40 percent of the coal mined in the U.S. comes from federal lands in states like Wyoming and Montana — technically the property of the American people. Companies pay the government fees, called royalties, to mine coal from federal lands. But some say they don’t pay enough, and that taxpayers are getting shortchanged by millions of dollars every year. The Department of the Interior has proposed new regulations that would require coal companies to pay more.
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Oil Boom Brings High School Football Back
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Alexander, North Dakota, didn’t have football for 28 years. The Bakken oil boom has changed all that.
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Shaking Up Supply And Demand To Make Renewables Work
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As Denmark strives to reach ambitious renewables goals, it isn’t just adding more wind turbines and solar panels—it’s totally rethinking the way we consume electricity.
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From Dams To Healthy Rivers In The Northwest
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Dam removals have become much more commonplace in recent years in the Pacific Northwest as their benefits are weighed against the harm they have caused to river ecosystems. From EarthFix.
