Last year, Illinois households burned 422 trillion cubic feet of gas resulting in 23 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. That matches annual tailpipe emissions of 5 million autos. Energy audit crucial in helping improve our house’s energy efficiency by 85 percent
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Heat Waves in Red & Black: Inflation Reduction Act — save money at home by decarbonizing
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Heat Waves in Red & Black: Putin’s petrostate under kleptocratic ‘reiderstovo’
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Heat waves in Red & Black: CO2 pipeline for Peoria? Who Benefits?
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Heat Waves in Red & Black: Melting Glaciers involve more than rising sea levels
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Heat waves — in red & black | Danger zone: Will Greenland, West Antarctic ice sheets collapse?
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Climate scientists lose sleep over tipping points, temperature thresholds when crossed initiate self-sustaining, irreversible, and massively-destructive changes in natural systems, such as glaciers and forests. Countless living things will face untimely and unnatural deaths if these systems collapse. New…
Heat Waves in Red & Black | SOO Green Line needs green light
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Heat Waves — In Red and Black | State of our electricity shortage
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Illinois once exported 40% of its electricity generation. Now, we must import electricity. Between 2007 and 2020, 44 Illinois coal plants closed (EIA) thus eliminating a sizeable fraction of our generation capacity. Another 12 coal plants may close by 2023.…
Heat Waves — In Red and Black | Forecast for rolling blackouts?
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The ultimate just-in-time commodity, supply and demand for electricity must be immediately and precisely balanced. If a supply deficit can’t be closed rapidly, grid operators order round-robin shutoffs across all customers, i.e. “rolling blackouts” lasting hours to days depending on…