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  • Marc Lefkowitz
    Jul 28 2010 - 4:14pm
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    The alarm bells haven’t started ringing, but environmental groups and concerned citizens are nervously eyeing a permit renewal for a coal-fired power plant in University Circle. It is likely the plant will continue to burn coal here, yet the renewal is seen as a litmus test as the city’s cultural and intellectual elite—many of whom have taken a public stance to be more environmentally correct—expand their appetite for power to keep pace with an institutional growth spurt.

    Much has been made about the benefits from the $1 billion invested in University Circle by these same institutions. Certainly there’s evidence of a new chapter forming in the relationship between the ‘Eds and Meds’ and underserved Cleveland…

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  • Greg Studen
    Jul 11 2010 - 4:47pm
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    One of the critical issues in evaluating new energy technologies is how to determine whether a new energy installation--a windmill, a solar panel, a power plant--will generate more energy over its useful life than the energy it takes to build and maintain it, and how much more.  This analysis falls under the general category of cost/benefit analysis. Comparing the total costs and monetary returns over the life of an energy production project is referred to as a life cycle cost study, although…

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