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Fossil fuel, not nuclear, is the real enemy among energy sources

Fossil fuel, not nuclear, is the real enemy among energy sources Mr. Mellor’s recent opinion piece suggested we are well on our way to meeting state energy goals with wind and solar. Mellor looks at cost and feasibility, but the issues are more complex than he suggests. When solar panels are in full sun — and if the electricity they produce is consumed during that time — the cost of solar is relatively cheap. That’s true. However, solar power is…

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FOSSIL FUELS: Stanford Says, Recapture CO2

COLUMN FOSSIL FUELS: Stanford Says, Recapture CO2 Editor’s Note: This is the first of occasional articles, from university public-relations departments, on research into burning fossil fuels more cleanly. Here, Stanford University tells how faculty there are targeting “super-emitters.” In the United States, most electricity from the grid comes from power plants that run on coal or natural gas. These plants generate 35 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Climate scientists say we need to reduce global…

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Are Fossil Fuels Part Of Climate-Change Answer?

EDITORIAL Are Fossil Fuels Part Of Climate-Change Answer Some of you may have heard our Adirondack neighbor Bill McKibben’s NPR interview a year or two ago. Unless all buildings in the U.S. are made energy-efficient by 2030, the war against Global Warming will be lost, he said. The interviewer asked, is that possible? No, said McKibben, who is among the nation’s foremost advocates of stemming greenhouse gases. In different words, McKibben is saying, we’re lost. • Too much of the…

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Life Without Fossil Fuels? Where Would We Start?

COLUMN VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Life Without Fossil Fuels? Where Would We Start? Do you really want to stop using fossil fuels?  Your immediate answer may be a resounding “yes.”  However, that could change your life in a way you hadn’t anticipated.  That’s because so many of us grew up in cities and have no real tie to the land or to how the things we rely upon in our daily lives come from or how they are made. Do…

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What Are Fossil Fuels?What Are Renewables?

COLUMN What Are Fossil Fuels? What Are Renewables? By MIKE ZAGATA • for Hometown Oneonta & The Freeman’s Journal Based upon what I read in our papers, there seems to be a lack of information and/or understanding about fossil fuels and the so-called “renewables.”  This might be a good time to attempt to get all of us on the same page. The descriptive term “fossil fuels” includes coal, oil and natural gas – the energy sources that were formed millions…

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The Goal: Doing All We Can To Reduce Dependence On Fossil Fuels

The Goal: Doing All We Can To Reduce Dependence On Fossil Fuels   I was sent this article, “Until Available 24/7, Renewable Energy Not Ready For Prime Time,” from your newspaper of Feb. 21-22. “Another speaker spoke of all the things he had done to remove himself from the grid. Again, I couldn’t help but wonder how he paid for it – solar, geo-thermal and a $100,000 Tesla electric car. Would the savings ever allow him to recover those incremental…

DIVESTMENT — VILLAGE CASTS OUT FOSSIL FUEL STOCKS

VILLAGE CASTS OUT FOSSIL FUEL STOCKS The Freeman’s Journal, Oct. 27, 2016 Editor’s Note: The Cooperstown Village Board unanimously voted Oct. 24, 2016, to divest fossil-fuel stocks in its fire and police department pension funds, setting off a debate between Trustee Lou Allstadt, the retired Mobil executive vice president, and David Russell, a lawyer, banker and former assistant counsel for pensions in the state Comptroller’s Office.  This is the first news report on the issue. By JIM KEVLIN COOPERSTOWN – It…

Life Without Fossil Fuels? Careful What You Wish For

Life Without Fossil Fuels? Careful What You Wish For Editor’s Note: Mike Zagata, Ph.D., who lives in Davenport, is a former commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Conservation. This is reprinted from this week’s Free By MIKE ZAGATA There is virtual agreement that we must move away from fossil fuels to energy sources that are renewable. First, fossil fuels are non-renewable, i.e. at some point we will run out of them. Second, there are scientists and politicians that believe…

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Putting the Community Back Into the Newspaper

Now through March 30, new annual subscribers to “The Freeman’s Journal” and AllOtsego.com (or subscribers who have lapsed for two or more years) have an opportunity to help their choice of one of four Otsego County charitable organizations.

$5.00 of your subscription will be donated to the nonprofit of your choice:

Cooperstown Farmers’ Market, Cooperstown Food Pantry, Greater Oneonta Historical Society or Super Heroes Humane Society.