Why not the deep South Green? Or is it?

Everyone is looking for the elusive killer app that will revolutionize energy. Most expect a high-tech gadget, or new form of production or mass quantities finally save electricity.

Not Susan Mazur Stommen anthropologist. You will look in a completely different location: in our head, or more precisely in the minds of those who live in the deep South.

Mazur Stommen, Director of behavior, and human dimensions for the American Council for an energy-efficient economy is trying to understand how consumers think energy. Their work has the opposite aim of most consumer research. Instead of looking for ways to make us more to buy, seeking it opportunities, to buy us less, or just said, are more energy efficient.

That's what they last week at the great American Trucking Show in Dallas, Texas, placed where they in part of a larger research project on the everyday use of energy households, businesses and farms in the deep South truckers, asked.

It was the last stop in a unusual summer trip for people in small town company, upward mobile Relovilles, to talk about agricultural communities and poor neighborhoods. Their research took them to Alpharetta, Georgia; Oneonta, Alabama; Corinth, Mississippi; and New Orleans, Louisiana.

Not necessarily, what they found was what you'd expect.

In the South other times because of the nature of their culture is known for his opposition to the green energy, sometimes because of the nature of their local resources.

At the American electric power a few years ago a scheme to transfer moved to wind power nationwide to wear, also it conspicuously from the Southeastern States. Southern States received 2011 published for the annual scorecard ACEEE energy efficiency in low rankings. South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi were ten in the lower.

In fact, what she asked while in Mississippi, Mazur Stommen of a small town business woman, on energy efficiency. Your answer: "efficiency?" "We have not even curb side recycling!"

But that doesn't mean that the South is not green.

“People pursue green in the South, but they do it in their own way. This is one of the messages. Trust not in the Government. They do not trust their use. It was take care of, "she said."

What they found was a non-monolithic pursuit of energy efficiency, from place to place, a sometimes on pragmatism and other times on altruism, but apparently not on the wish to keep distinguished with Jones, as is sometimes the case in California or in the Northeast. No 'cloud of smug' - South Park satire of the Prius driver - hovering over the South.

A ageing trucker said Mazur Stommen, he always keeps matched his rig and wait for maximum efficiency, but quickly added, "I not trees embrace." It was held that the air conditioning high set thermostats in upmarket houses in Georgia. Egg farmers use LED lights, specifically for the laying of chickens because of their sensitivity to light; It was a practical not political act. In New Orleans, a basic network is an energy awareness for reconstruction which brings Hurricane battered city.

"It's complicated." People would clean fuel for health issues, "she said." "One woman said, ' I will not my man to smell like diesel ever '."

Energy said Mazur Stommen on people's minds. But they were overwhelmed by the ailing economy. Family and owners/operators of truck driver described the burden of government regulation are applied, but was better suited for larger operations.

"they are feeling, how she will be targets by regulation and the regulation is not appropriate to their situation and is sometimes aim, by you from business," she said. "I can say not necessarily that they are wrong."

Those who often interviews she expressed to believe a strong relationship-based institutions. She believes that such institutions could become better purveyors of energy efficiency in the South as government agencies and utilities - objects of suspicion.

The bottom line is that the messaging must be different in the South, when it comes to energy efficiency than in many other parts of the country, she said. "You have to not only provided get in the complexity that people are anti-environmental." It is branding. "I want to be a tree hugger, but I want to do the right thing." "There is a certain side of environmentalism, people want not to get, but they want to burn cleaner fuels."

Take full account of the deep South, which will be published in end of 2012 by ACEEE on Mazur Stommen.

(Author's Note: this blog is dedicated to Lisa Perea Hane, a very good friend, who died this week.) Lisa was a native of South Carolina, which played southern friendliness and wit, and never given up their performances "Y ' all ' despite many years away from home.)

ELISA is a long-time energy writer, whose free Newsletter is available on the subject of energy efficiency under RealEnergyWriters.com

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Ex - in the Bank to help finance the clean tech exports to South Africa

The export-import Bank of the United States (ex - in the Bank) and the Industrial Development Corp. of South Africa Ltd. (IDC) on 7 August signed a memorandum of understanding to help promote South African development, including renewable energy. Under the terms of the agreement will be ex-in the Bank financing up to $2 billion value of United States technologies, products and services South Africa's energy sector, with a focus on clean energy development help.

The Industrial Development Corp. is a South African national development financial institution meant economic growth and to promote industrial development. The IDC primary goals is to create balanced and sustainable economic growth in South Africa and contribute to the rest of the continent. See ex-in the Bank press release.

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Twin blasts target oil pipelines in the South of Iraq

Baghdad - a few bombs hit two oil pipelines in the South of Iraq, caused a temporary production of the country's largest oil field, officials said Saturday.

The blasts found late Friday at the Rumaila field, a fire that firefighters lasted a few hours, wipe out Sparks, the Deputy Director of the provincial Council Basra, Ahmed al-Sulaiti said. No one was hurt.

Such attacks are rare in Iraqi oil develop iron-rich South where international oil companies have begun flooding in huge oil reserves of the country. Basra is the second largest province of Iraq and home to about 70 percent of the country's proven oil reserves of 143.1 billion barrels.

The attack forced officials to produce about 600,000 barrels from around 1.25 million barrels a day, said DHIAzugelassenes Jaafar, the Director-General of the State South Oil Co.

He said the country's oil exports were not affected and production should be restored to normal levels in two days.

"It is a terrorist attack and sabotage Act," he said. "It is a clear breach of security and that we all should work together to catch and punish those behind it so that it will not be repeated."

The Rumaila field is the Iraq the largest with 17.8 billion barrels. It is developed by Britain's BP and China's CNPC.

Iraqi daily production is about 2.9 million barrels per day, and oil exports on average, around 2.1 million barrels per day. Oil revenues make about 95 percent of the State budget.

Iraq has awarded 15 oil and gas deals since 2008 at international energy companies in the first major investment in the country's energy sector in more than three decades.

Baghdad should daily production to 12 million barrels until 2017, a level that current production capacity would put it almost on par with Saudi of Arabia. But many analysts say that goal unrealistic, since the decaying infrastructure through many wars and more than a decade-long international embargo.

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Police kill suspect in 2010, South Russia blast power plant

Suspected militants believed to have, in a 2010 terrorist attack on a power plant in southern Russia Kabardino-Balkaria on Friday was killed during a police operation in the Northern Caucasus, reported the national anti-terrorism Committee.

A group of men broke in on July 21 last year dead two guards shoot Baksan hydroelectric power station in the Kabardino-Balkaria. She exploded then five improvised explosives at the site.

The Committee said in a statement that the police had the House surrounded, where the militant remain, and asked him to produce. He was killed after he said Committee fire, a statement opened in.

Two militant the terrorist attack on the hydroelectric plant were involved in a police operation killed several days after the explosion.

Last October police arrested Timur Shibzukhov, 24, and Magomed Shogenov, 26, who said, involved in the attack. They are one now trial in Kabardino-Balkaria to.

The attacks on the Baksan River hydropower set broken three power supplies, leaving Baksan, Nalchik and Tyrnyauz without electricity. Damages were estimated at more than $23 million.

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