I have dished out a healthy share of criticism about the paths we are taking into the energy future, so perhaps it’s time I offered some paths of my own. I will outline them as simply as possible, since the data and thinking behind them could fill a book. First we must know where we’re going. Credible models show that by the end of this century, essentially all of the fossil fuels on earth...
A car ban will be in place in Dublin city’s College Green within four weeks – and it is proving hugely controversial. The peak-time prohibition will be brought into effect on July 27 by the city council’s Transport 21 office. The ban means that only buses and taxis will be allowed to pass through the College [...] Related posts: Honda announces £1billion loss Following on from...
Leaders set aside differences...Nuclear power is dead...Economic markets soar as a result of climate pact...If only... From GreenpeaceVideo via YouTube.
Riding the MTA Long Island Rail Road’s Montauk Branch, Kawasaki CR Pull Cab car with TR Bi-Level Pull cars and a Locomotive were crusing towards Jamaica Station in Jamaica, Queens. This clip takes us along Archer Av from 168th St to about 150th St. You will see the top of the Jamaica Center Terminal and [...] Related posts: Time to pull the plug on the Chevy Volt? It just can’t help GM?...
Mediterranean Sunset wallpaper Plan will help harvest sun’s energy Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s “moonshot” is all about the sun. Instead of merely talking about the possibilities of solar energy and waiting for private entrepreneurs to propose projects, Salazar is wisely jumpstarting development on public land by mapping areas with the most potential and conducting environmental...
A Nation’s Fatal Ingratitude 6,000 Indian soldiers fight in the minus 50 degree bitter cold of the Siachen Glacier. A callous Ministry of Defence is now giving them flimsy gear that’s fit only for minus 10 degrees, finds NEHA DIXIT [Europe: Carbon rip-offset trading slumps] | Green Business | Reuters According to data published by the European Climate Exchange on Wednesday, Europe-wide...
What if there were a way to get around nuclear energy's big problem— radioactive waste? According to David Frum, there is. France's nuclear solution : America gets one-fifth of its power from nuclear power plants. Nuclear is far and away the cheapest and most reliable alternative to carbon-emitting coal. Yet we all know that nuclear energy carries one great big negative: the problem of nuclear...
Some farmers might be eligible for federal grants to cover the cost of putting in a wind energy turbine. This ZDNet blog entry says farmers and ranchers in rural areas with fewer than 15 employees have until July 31, 2009 to apply for the USDA Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants: The grants can be used [...]
If common sense governed the affairs of people South Africa would be one of the world’s leading markets for solar thermal technology and there would be a solar system on every roof in that great republic. In South Africa there is a state monopoly of energy. The energy company, ESKOM, relies on coal to deliver almost [...]
A recently exhausted rebate program in California is being credited with helping the state really increase its use of alternative fuels in vehicles. From its inception in February 2008 to its end this past April, the Fueling Alternatives program handed out $2.6 million to encourage consumers to buy alternative fuel vehicles. And this article from [...]
Vanguard Energy Partners Helps Quick Chek Launch Its First Solar Electric Array BRANCHBURG, N.J., July 2 /PRNewswire/ – Vanguard Energy Partners, LLC, today announced the completion of Quick Chek’s first renewable energy project — a 110kW solar photovoltaic (PV) system that will help power its corporate headquarters in Whitehouse Station, NJ. Vanguard will be working with [...]
IN answer to William Oxenham (Letters, 26 June), in fact it has been proposed that nuclear energy be designated a renewable energy source. Not only does it produce no
Russia hopes next week’s visit by US President Barack Obama will help restore confidence between the two biggest nuclear powers, a Kremlin aide said today, after strains over Georgia and a US missil...
National Grid PLC chief executive Steve Holliday has acknowledged that connecting new nuclear power stations and offshore wind farms to the UK's electricity network would require over £1 billion a year additional investment from 2012 onwards. The utility is already investing the majority of its planned £18 billion program to 2012 in the U.K. "If you look at the plan for new nuclear and the offshore...
The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. And "clean coal," which involves capturing carbon emissions and sequestering...
When we talk about wind energy, we don’t specifically mention ocean winds. But global satellite maps from NASA promise a new hope. Nearly a decade of data from NASA’s QuikSCAT satellite gives us hope that we can harness ocean’s wind for energy generation. These maps can help in locating and planning the offshore wind farms for producing electric energy. QuikSCAT , was placed in the orbit in 1999. It...
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