Megan Hall

First make sure your home is well insulated. Then, swap out your furnace or boiler
for a device known as a heat pump. Heat pumps run on electricity and transfer heat from the
outside and bring it inside your home. Making the switch to a heat pump from an oil furnace
can reduce your heating emissions by about 50%.

Today we have a question from listener Alec Beckett. He asks: Should I be in favor of nuclear power? He says he knows about the risks, but he’s also heard that nuclear power is a clean source of energy.

Since the wind isn’t always blowing, Rhode Island uses natural gas power plants as a backup, which means that the electricity from wind farms isn’t 100% renewable. The best solution would be to store the electricity generated by wind turbines in batteries, but so far these batteries haven’t been big enough or cheap enough to use.

What’s the point of putting wind farms in the ocean? And will we see more of them in Rhode Island?

Does speeding waste gas? If so, how much does it waste?

Would a microwave oven or an electric stove use more energy to boil a cup of water?