Archive for August, 2009

Canada tops ranks of the wasteful among G8 nations

Posted Friday, August 21st, 2009 by admin

My latest column in the National Post exposes some of the risks Canada faces if we don’t get serious about energy efficiency.

Read it here: http://bit.ly/5VWgwo

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Dell saves $US1.8M/yr turning off its 50,000 PCs at night

Posted Friday, August 14th, 2009 by admin

My most recent column in the National Post (Aug. 14/09) discusses another instance of wasted energy. Nearly half of the 108 million corporate PCs and monitors in the US are left on overnight and weekends, using $3 - 4.3 billion in needless electricity per year. Globally it’s an over $13 billion issue.

See the whole story at: http://bit.ly/4V6vIL

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Converting 200,000 NA taxis to hybrid Priuses would save $50B by 2016 in fuel

Posted Saturday, August 8th, 2009 by admin

My latest column in Friday’s National Post (Aug 7): If all 200,000 taxis in North America were Prius cabs — or got the same fuel efficiency — the industry would save more than $50 billion in fuel between now and 2016 — that’s more than $US11,000 a year per taxi. See http://bit.ly/5iLrCQ for the full story.

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