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27 Apr 09

Op-Ed Columnist - Moore’s Law and the Law of More - NYTimes.com

  • It is not an exaggeration to say that the team that President Obama appointed to promote his green agenda is nothing short of outstanding — a great combination of scientists and policy makers committed to building an energy economy that is efficient, clean and secure. Now there is only one vacancy left for him to fill. And it’s one that only he can fill: Green President.
  • Without a fixed, long-term, durable price on carbon, none of the Obama clean-tech initiatives will achieve the scale needed to have an impact on climate change or make America the leader it must be in the next great industrial revolution: E.T., or energy technology.
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22 Apr 09

Chicago Reader | The Green Issue | Where Alternative Energy Meets Alt-Country: Ryan Boyles can record your band or make your electric meter run backward. By Ed. M. Koziarski

  • Later that year Boyles incorporated Windy City Solar, which he runs out of a one-room office in a Humboldt Park two-flat, upstairs from the recording studio he shares with the landlord. He’s since phased out the carpentry work to focus on solar electric.


    Last spring the Illinois legislature sowed the seeds for a solar boom in Chicago by passing a “net-metering” law, under which people with solar arrays with capacities up to 40 kilowatts are credited at retail rate for any electricity they feed back into the grid up to the value of their electric bill—ComEd spokeswoman Rachel Gerds compares it to rollover minutes.

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