Heliogenic Climate Change (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Multibillion-dollar clean coal projects in West Virginia, Texas and Alabama are getting $979 million in federal stimulus funding, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Friday.The money will go toward retrofitting existing coal-fired power plants owned by American Electric Power, Southern Co. and Summit Texas Clean Energy to capture and store carbon dioxide ..." " Feds give clean coal projects...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | yesterday
Image credit: Hopenhagen Editor's note: This guest post was written by former Vice President Al Gore for the Hopenhagen movement. The world has arrived at a moment of decision. As long as we continue to depend on dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil to meet our energy needs, and dump 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere, we move closer and closer to several dangerous tipping...
advanced nanotechnology (Free subscription) | yesterday
1. GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy supports India’s plans to expand electricity supply India plans to expand its electricity production from nuclear energy more than tenfold, from 4.1 gigawatts (GW) today to 63 GW by 2032. Of that total, an estimated 30-40 GW would come from imported reactor technologies. India has set aside two sites for potential 10,000-MW nuclear power stations featuring reactor...
The Nuclear Green Revolution (Free subscription) | yesterday
I had the good fortune to grow up in Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge was one of few places in the world where people held a comprehensive view of the future. Oak Ridge scientists, including my father, were warning in the 1970's of the long term climate consequences of burning coal for energy. During the 1970's environmental activists like Amory Lovins touted the use of Coal in preference to carbon free nuclear...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
If he means people who deny that there is climate change at all, then he has a point. There is always climate change, but there are currently those who deny it outright. However, it is worth pointing out that there has been no climate change of a certain specific kind - global warming - this century. The suggestion that the whole thing was or is caused by human behaviour has been exposed as a gigantic...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Climategate: how the Copenhagen Grinches stole Christmas – Telegraph Blogs First they try to steal $45 trillion of our hard-earned cash in the name of ‘combatting climate change”. Now they steal our holidays too: the organisers of the Copenhagen Summit – COP 15 to use its snappy official name – have banned Christmas . CO2 Science: Lots of videos As representatives of the...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
msnbc.com video:Sachs weighs in on Climategate ClimateWorks Is Carrying Out New Global Strategy - NYTimes.com ...Mr. Harvey is the chief executive of the ClimateWorks Foundation, a billion-dollar foundation that seeks to slow climate change, and he has gone global with that message. Best practices — whether in construction, manufacturing, transportation, forestry or producing energy — offer...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Though lauded for adopting wind power, its high recycling rate and its progressive policies, Denmark generates the most waste per capita in the EU and most of its energy still comes from coal. Something is rotting in the state of Denmark. Lots of things, actually, and it's a bit of an embarrassment for this Scandinavian nation as it prepares to host a widely anticipated global environmental summit...
Atomic Insights Blog (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Lloyd Yates, the CEO of Progress Energy, has published a terrific op-ed piece in the Charlotte News-Observer titled Coming clean on coal that clearly explains why his company has chosen to shut down coal fired power plants that supply 30% of its current electricity demand. More importantly, he explains HOW his company will continue to meet the needs of its customers for electricity in the coming years....
Overview Petitions (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Right now there is a frenzy of dam building going on worldwide to generate electricity even though multiple studies easily accessed on the internet show that many countries would be better served to upgrade old and inefficient electrical transmission lines with "Smart Grids" and more efficient energy technology applied to heating and cooling sytems for homes and businesses. In some cases...
Cool Science News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
From The Economist: THERE is an awesome amount of energy tied up in an atom of uranium. Because of that, projections of the price of nuclear power tend to focus on the cost of building the plant rather than that of fuelling it. But proponents of nuclear energy—who argue, correctly, that such plants emit little carbon dioxide—would do well to remember that, like coal and oil, uranium is...
Atom Watch (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
[Looks like nuclear energy is improving its position with state utility regulators.] http://pepei.pennnet.com/display_article/371541/6/ARTCL/none/none/1/Survey-says-state-regulators-like-nuclear-power/ 4 December 2009-- A survey says that U.S. state utility regulators prefer nuclear power over any other source. Between August and October RKS Research and Consulting polled 97 state utility commissioners...
Green Car Advisor (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Total U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions in 2008 were 2.2 percent below the 2007 total and 4.7 percent lower for the transportation sector over the same period, according to a just-released report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the United States 2008. ---------- Greenhouse-gas emissions in the U.S. economy for 2008. Click to enlarge. ---------- The decline...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
[But who provides the money to bribe everyone?]: Tories plan to make climate change worth your while - Telegraph And, as Clark explained, the Tories aim to do this though “treating the public as the friends rather than the enemies of the Earth” and by presenting “environmental action as an opportunity, not a threat”. So instead of penalising people for doing the wrong thing,...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Once an opponent of the national energy tax, better known as cap and trade, Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) has essentially come out for it. In an op-ed, Byrd writes: To be part of any solution, one must first acknowledge a problem. To deny the mounting science of climate change is to stick our heads in the sand and say "deal me out." West Virginia would be much smarter to stay at the table. That...
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aarkstore | 11/11/2009
Fuel – Nuclear Power’s Trump Card? Summary Compared to coal or gas, nuclear fuel is inexpensive and constant in price, uranium reserves remain large – and quite possibly sustainable – and spent fuel is easily contained. Nuclear fuel has many associated advantages in comparison to other conventional fuel sources. Only a small quantity of uranium is required to produce a huge amount of nuclear energy....
aarkstore | 10/22/2009
The report focuses on China’s traditional, non-renewable energy sectors - coal, oil, and nuclear power, which together account for about 90% of China’s energy mix. It analyzes current technology levels, penetration of clean and efficient technologies specific to the three sectors, as well as potential opportunities for foreign companies. This report does not include the renewable energy sectors (e.g....
aarkstore | 09/16/2009
Fuel – Nuclear Power’s Trump Card? Summary Compared to coal or gas, nuclear fuel is inexpensive and constant in price, uranium reserves remain large – and quite possibly sustainable – and spent fuel is easily contained. Nuclear fuel has many associated advantages in comparison to other conventional fuel sources. Only a small quantity of uranium is required to produce a huge amount of nuclear energy....
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