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RMI Solar Program Live Chat: Questions and Answers
If solar equipment, installation and other costs continue to drop, solar energy will be increasingly competitive in more markets after the scheduled end of solar tax credits in 2016, RMI experts told participants in a live web chat last week.
U.S. Can’t Drill its Way to a Better Energy Future
During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama outlined goals to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil. A commitment to efficiency and advancing renewable energy are indeed promising, but any solution to our country’s energy problems—and economic problems, for that matter—that proposes we can drill our way out misses an incredible opportunity.
Energy’s Two Revolutions
This GreenBiz Q&A with Amory Lovins is part of the web site's 2012 State of Green Business report.
Transforming America’s Built Environment (Video)
The country’s 120 million buildings consume 42 percent of our nation’s total energy and 72 percent of our electricity. Watch the second in our series of Reinventing Fire videos that detail what we can do to use less energy and become more efficient, simply by adopting today's existing building efficiency techniques and design strategies.
Driving the Next Industrial Revolution Through Efficiency
President Obama’s call in his State of the Union address to capitalize on “the strongest two-year period of manufacturing growth since the 1990s” by encouraging businesses to bring work back to the United States can be accelerated with energy efficiency innovation.