Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Two: Five Tons of Coal Per Year | PBS
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Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America
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 which is about 5 tons of coal for each household.
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Kilowatt Ours | Full Program | PBS
Full Program: This acclaimed documentary provides a hopeful look at how energy conservation and renewable power can help to... 56:18
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Ten: Take the...
Here’s a challenge for all of us. Let’s reduce our electricity use by 25% or more in every home, school and... 01:47
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Kilowatt Ours | Home Energy Tips | PBS
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Eight, Part Two:...
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Seven: In Search of...
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Six: Changing Our...
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Five: Poisioning Our...
Burning coal releases mercury into the atmosphere. We ingest this dangerous neurotoxin when we eat fish from polluted... 02:54
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Three: Our Planet is...
Mountain top removal mining, air pollution, haze in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, methylmercury contamination... 05:48
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter One: Mountain Top...
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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... 01:58
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Kilowatt Ours | Trailer | PBS
A glimpse of the award winning Kilowatt Ours documentary film being released for public television this fall. 02:08
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Kilowatt Ours | Meet the Team | PBS
A "thank you video" to everyone who donated recently to support Kilowatt Ours, and to introduce fans to our staff.... 09:49
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Kilowatt Ours | Chapter Four: Altering an...
Our nation’s greatest natural treasures are suffering the consequences from our extreme use of energy. Great Smoky... 02:06
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Coal's Role (Kevin Waetke, MidAmerican Energy,... (#102)
Why would a big power company push customers to conserve? Get the bottom line from MidAmerican's main spokesman.
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AMERICA REVEALED | Where Does Our Coal Come... (#103)
Did you know coal supplies nearly half of America's electricity? Visit Black Thunder Mine with Yul Kwon and... 06:44
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AMERICA REVEALED | Introduction to Energy | PBS (#103)
See what America needs to keep its electric power grid running in this clip from the new four-part series AMERICA... 01:27
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Independent Lens | POWER PATHS | Film Clip #3... (#1104)
The Black Mesa and Kayenta mines became the largest coal strip-mining complex in the world. 01:42
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Post Date: September 7, 2008






















