Terry Tilley is Energy Manager for Wyoming County Schools. Part of his job is to make sure that system's buildings stay heated, cooled and lighted at the lowest cost possible. The school system, he says, monitors each office and classroom for energy efficiency.

"The way this system is set up...any time the CO2 gets above 900, fresh air is brought in from outside," Tilley says. "Even though the room is 72 (degrees), it's going to start bringing in air."

Tilley says that sort of monitoring has saved Wyoming County $300,000 a year for each of the past two years.

"We've developed the technology to make the generation of electricity very efficient and totally clean," says Charlie Storey, President, American Science Innovations, "and also, the operation of our internal combustion engines totally clean and also very energy efficient."

Part of what Storey has worked on is the use of hydrogen to fuel engines for school buses. Wood County school buses used alternative fuels for a while, but Storey says hydrogen is the next step in cleaner-burning fuels.

"It increases the fuel mileage, you have a smaller engine with less weight to carry, and by running the system on hydrogen, it's totally clean. There's no carbon footprint, and no pollutants produced by that system."

The arguement: schools need to continue finding ways to become more energy efficient, because that energy won't be getting any less expensive.