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YESTERDAY

THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT WEDNESDAY, August 23:

  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And The New Energy Boom
  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And the EV Revolution
  • THE DAY BEFORE

  • Weekend Video: Coming Ocean Current Collapse Could Up Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Impacts Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current Collapse
  • Weekend Video: More Facts On The AMOC
  • THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 15-16:

  • Weekend Video: The Truth About China And The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Florida Insurance At The Climate Crisis Storm’s Eye
  • Weekend Video: The 9-1-1 On Rooftop Solar
  • THE DAY BEFORE THAT

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 8-9:

  • Weekend Video: Bill Nye Science Guy On The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: The Changes Causing The Crisis
  • Weekend Video: A “Massive Global Solar Boom” Now
  • THE LAST DAY UP HERE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 1-2:

  • The Global New Energy Boom Accelerates
  • Ukraine Faces The Climate Crisis While Fighting To Survive
  • Texas Heat And Politics Of Denial
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, June 17-18

  • Fixing The Power System
  • The Energy Storage Solution
  • New Energy Equity With Community Solar
  • Weekend Video: The Way Wind Can Help Win Wars
  • Weekend Video: New Support For Hydropower
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  • WEEKEND VIDEOS, August 24-26:
  • Happy One-Year Birthday, Inflation Reduction Act
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 1
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 2

    Saturday, March 10, 2007

    DAYLIGHT SAVING WHAT?

    Good SUNDAY morning: You're an hour late!

    Daylight Saving Time could save energy, lives
    March 8, 2007 (WSLS NewsChannel 10)

    - When you turn your clocks ahead one hour before bed tomorrow night, you'll lose an hour of sleep, but you could be saving energy.
    - That’s the reason behind Daylight Saving Time, and why it is starting earlier and ending later this year.
    - A [1975] government study shows we use 1% less electricity during DST…will one percent make a difference?
    - …that same study said the number of people killed in traffic crashes also goes down, 1.5-2% during DST…violent crime went down in DC, 10-13% during DST…

    DST: THE BASICS
    Extra!: Daylight-Saving Time
    March 8, 2007 (CNN Student News via CNN.com)

    - …Daylight-saving time is a system established to reduce electricity usage by extending daylight hours (clocks are set ahead one hour). This year, daylight-saving time begins at 2am on Sunday, March 11, 2007. Daylight-saving time ends at 2am on Sunday, November 4, 2007.
    - In the past, daylight-saving time began in April and ended in October. However, an energy bill signed by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005 extended daylight-saving time as part of a long-term solution to the nation's energy problems. The new law extended daylight-saving time by four weeks - beginning three weeks earlier and ending one week later…Hawaii and most of Arizona do not follow daylight-saving time…Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and American Samoa also do not…
    - About 70 countries around the world observe…Neither China nor Japan…Many other countries refer to "daylight-saving time" as "summertime."
    - The history of daylight-saving time
    1784 - Benjamin Franklin is thought to have come up with the idea…In a whimsical letter to a French journal, he said that Parisians could save thousands of francs a years by waking up earlier during the summer because it would prevent them from having to buy so many candles to light the evening hours.
    1918 - The U.S. first adopts daylight-saving time…[and] standard time zones…to save energy during World War I…[unpopular,]it was repealed the following year.
    1942 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted "war-time," a year-round daylight-saving time to save energy during World War II. After the year-round shift ended in 1945, many states adopted their own summer time changes.
    1966 - Congress established a national pattern for summer time changes with the Uniform Time Act. The…transportation industry…demanded consistency across time zones. The U.S. Department of Transportation now oversees time changes…

    1973 - An oil embargo by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries led Congress to enact a test period of year-round daylight-saving time in 1974 and 1975…it ended after complaints that the dark winter mornings endangered children traveling to school. The U.S. returned to summer daylight-saving time in 1975.
    1986 - The Federal law is amended to start daylight-saving time on the first Sunday in April, beginning in 1987. The ending date of daylight-saving time was never changed, and remained the last Sunday in October through 2006.
    2005 - On August 8, President Bush signs the Energy Policy Act of 2005 into law. Part of the act will extend daylight-saving time starting in 2007, from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
    2007 - Daylight-saving time begins on Sunday, March 11 and ends on Sunday, November 4.

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