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Glenn on September 20, 2006 - 2:12pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yup, I'm into the whole negawatt thing. And Air Conditioner bounty program would be fantastic and would also allow proper disposal of the chemicals inside.
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Valuethinker on September 21, 2006 - 7:12am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
The keys are incentivising Con Ed into doing this, and getting away from the political rhetoric about 'new' energy sources.

That said, they are building a huge windpowered station in upstate New York, I think.  And there must be some real offshore wind opportunities off Long Island.

When the nuclear reactors shut down (http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/st_profiles/sept02ny.xls Nine Mile Point?) New York is going to have a power deficit, I think.

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Glenn on September 21, 2006 - 8:51am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Actually as LevinK pointed out to me, we are already in deficit.

Here's an analysis I did a while back, but haven't figured out on my new Mac computer how to make the excel chart into a picture that I can post. Any tech advice.

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