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The future of energy
CNET News - If a brownout is looming, swimming pool heaters might be turned down so that air-conditioners can go full throttle. The systems save money too by cutting back on power usage in the afternoon, when rates peak. Utilities in Utah, Florida and other

Energy system worries officials
Centre Daily - about how effective the new meters and varying rates would prove at reducing demand. He urged regulators to instead expand programs that allow utilities to ramp back electricity consumption by customers’ air conditioners and swimming pool heaters.

George Bush Won’t Be Able to Limit Oil Imports
Kommersant - And the consumer who installs a solar water heater in his house (with the exception of swimming pool heaters) will receive a $2000 tax credit. Under the new law, American oil refineries are to increase their use of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) gasoline

Energy system worries officials 
SACRAMENTO Hard work and good luck, combined with excellent hydroelectric conditions and overtime work from aging power plants, enabled California to escape rolling blackouts during the July

Choosing a Swimming Pool Heater
Press World (press release), Russia - Aug 11, 2006… restriction. Many gas swimming pool heater manufacturers have high efficiency heaters options which have efficiencies over 90%. …

Energy Adviser: Solar pool heaters reduce costs
The Columbian, WA - Aug 20, 2006… and keep it off longer in the fall. Solar pool-heating systems are very simple. Instead of diverting pool water through a standard …

Sheriff’s reports SHERIFF’S REPORTS
Herald Tribune - A pool heat pump was stolen from a construction site. Wingspan Way, 5900 block, Aug. 2. Lost property. A woman lost a bracelet. Summer Cove Drive East, 4500 block, Aug. 3. Burglary. A flat-screen television was stolen. Summer Oak Avenue, 4600 block, Aug

Pools play a large part in small towns’ summers
The Spokesman Review, WA - Aug 12, 2006… bus trips. Oakesdale (population 420): The changing room and pool were spotless, but the pool’s heater was broken. Pools are …

Nichols Street fire under investigation
Daily News Transcript, MA - Aug 21, 2006… had to deal with overhead power lines going to the garage (and) pool house and also had the added concerns of pool chlorine and pool-heater propane possibly …

Falling branch sets off explosion
NorthJersey.com, NJ - Aug 26, 2006… leak. Call for help from a neighbor’s house. Propane pool heaters run at high temperatures and require frequent maintenance. Seda …

Afternoon quiet shattered by a tornado in area near Stuart
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Aug 25, 2006… But for residents emerging onto rain soaked streets to collect their trash cans and solar pool heaters from the neighbors’ yard, the scene was all too familiar …

City utilities pushing gas
Tallahassee.com, FL - Aug 12, 2006… $100 for a gas range cooktop or gas range oven and $50 for gas fire logs, space-heating stoves, gas clothes dryers, barbecue grills, pool heaters or outdoor …

Energy Adviser: Solar pool heaters reduce costs
The Columbian, WA - Aug 20, 2006Earlier this year I attended a workshop you did on renewable energy options in Clark County, but you didn’t touch much on solar pool heaters. …

Choosing a Swimming Pool Heater
Press World - Gas heaters are by far the most common type of heater in the United States. They are typically very efficient (80%+), and the cost of gas is currently less than the cost of electricity in most areas. Gas heaters come equipped for Natural Gas or LP

Oil-addicted America finds a temporary fix in Africa 
Pushed by Mideast instability, the U.S. has headed to the world’s poorest continent for oil. The result, some fear, not only feeds a perilous craving for oil here at home but threatens the stability of Africa’s fragile democracies.