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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Eight, Part One: Conservation Power Plant | PBS
If we find a way to generate the electricity we need by other means, we could minimize our use of coal to generate electricity. Austin, Texas has spent the last 30 years building a "conservation... 06:41
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Seven: In Search of Savings | PBS
Look at all the places we found where energy can be saved using technologies that we have available today. All we need to do is make use of them. 06:35
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Six: Changing Our Direction | PBS
Buildings in America consume nearly 2/3 of all the energy we use. The typical American home emits twice the annual global warming emissions compared the typical car. So, if we can make our... 07:42
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Five: Poisioning Our Grandchildren | PBS
Burning coal releases mercury into the atmosphere. We ingest this dangerous neurotoxin when we eat fish from polluted waters. More than 45 states now post statewide mercury advisories. According... 02:54
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Three: Our Planet is Warming | PBS
Mountain top removal mining, air pollution, haze in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, methylmercury contamination of newborns, childhood asthma and global warming ALL stem from the same root cause. 05:48
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Two: Five Tons of Coal Per Year | PBS
Do you know where your electricity comes from? Most people don't realize that half of their electricity comes from burning coal, and lots of it. America burns 1 billion tons of coal each year... 02:39
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter One: Mountain Top Removal | PBS
Mountain Top Removal is a hideous practice of removing vast amounts of earth to extract small amounts of coal. The removed earth and rock is dozed over the edge into the valley floor below covering... 04:35
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Kilowatt Ours | Introduction | PBS
What if, every time we flipped a light switch at home, a mountain exploded in West Virginia, or every time we turned on the air conditioner in summer, a child suffered an asthma attack, or when we... 01:58
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P.O.V. | 49 Up | Preview | PBS (#2013)
In one of documentary cinema's more remarkable enterprises, "49 Up" makes its U.S. broadcast premiere on P.O.V. on PBS in October 9, 2007 as the seventh in a series of films that has profiled a... 02:08












