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...winds of fortune have lately favored people like Longcore because the economics finally make sense. Although wind accounts for only 0.5% of all the power generated in the U.S., a federal tax subsidy of 1.8˘ a kilowatt-hour (kW-h) has made it the nation's fastest-growing source of electrical power. The country had the capacity to generate 6,700 megawatts (MW) of wind-generated electricity last year, up from 2,500 MW in 2000. That's enough to electrify 1.6 million households annually, the equivalent of burning 9 million tons of coal...
...there are areas such as ANWR where beauty and biology can exist unspoiled in perpetuity. A recent Gallup poll indicates that 53 percent of Americans are opposed to drilling in ANWR—who are opposed to putting a price tag on nature. There is not a price per kilowatt-hour at which Old Faithful should be converted into a geothermal energy plant. There is no price for stone at which Mount Rushmore should be quarried. There is no price for exotic animals at which the government should export bald eagles. American society does have values, and one such value...
According to the EAC, $10 from every undergraduate would pay for 4 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of renewable energy, representing 25 percent of the College dorms’ energy...
...Harvard Environmental Action Committee (EAC), which endorses the opt-out option, estimates that $10 from each of the College’s 6,559 undergraduates would pay for about 4 million kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy—roughly 25 percent of the College dorms’ annual electricity consumption, or the total yearly production of one state-of-the-art wind turbine...
...change and the need to encourage energy conservation and increased efficiency. According to Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee (EAC)—which co-wrote the original proposal for the fee with the Harvard Students for Clean Energy—Harvard dorms currently use 17,000,000 kilowatt hours of electricity. The EAC estimates that each Harvard student contributes 3,340 lbs. of pollutants to the atmosphere each year. And according to a study conducted by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 40 percent over the past 12 years...