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Usa Corporate: #solar Goals
Apr 13 2018 01:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
USA Corporations that aim for 100% renewable energy: . . . Apple, hit it this week, . . . Google, hit it this month, and . . . Microsoft, recently set a new solar procurement record. Corporate solar installations topped . . . 3 gigawatts last year, ac...
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Usa Business Climate Action
Jul 29 2015 06:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
American Business Act on Climate Pledge These 13 companies stood with the White House to launch the pledge: . . . . . . Alcoa . . . . . . Apple . . . . . . Bank of America . . . . . . Berkshire Hathaway Energy . . . . . . Cargill . . . . . . Coca-Cola...
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Usa 2008 To 2013: More "rejected Energy"
Dec 21 2014 12:05 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
2008 Rejected Energy 57.07 https://flowcharts.l...S_EFC_20081.png 2013 Rejected Energy 59.0 https://flowcharts.l...013USEnergy.png
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Usa & China Big Polluters
Nov 15 2014 03:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
To maintain a legitimate shot at avoiding warming of greater than 2 °C, . . . greenhouse-gas emissions must be cut 40% to 70% by midcentury and . . . reduced to zero by 2100. The United States Is Far and Away the Leader in Carbon Dioxide Emissions. ....
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Us Senate Approves Ernest Moniz
May 16 2013 08:05 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Ernest Moniz, a former MIT physicist, is the new secretary of energy. . . . The Senate voted to confirm Moniz this afternoon by a vote of 97 to 0. Source: DOE
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Us Power Plants Affect Indian Tribes
Aug 25 2013 06:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
10% of all U.S. power plants, are within 20 miles of a reservation, . . . affecting 48 different tribes. 4 smokestacks of the Reid-Gardner coal-fired power plant, first started dumping . . . ash laced with mercury, lead and arsenic in 1965, . . . on t...
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Us Northeast Cap & Trade
Jul 16 2015 01:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Analysis Group claims, . . . the cap & trade program, called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) . . . involving 9 New England and Mid-Atlantic states has added, . . . . . . $1.3 billion in economic activity to the region since 2011,...
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Us Energy Trade Deficit
Sep 02 2014 01:40 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Germany Has Obtained 31% Of Its Electricity From Green Sources this Year. . . . A recent study stated EU electricity prices have fallen 35%-40% since 2008, . . . . . . but those savings have not been passed on to consumers. . . . The data from Frauenho...
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Us & China Say No To New Coal Plants
Sep 16 2013 01:10 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
China announced bans on new coal-fired generation in its capital Beijing, and . . . . . . its 2 biggest industrial areas, . . . the United States is about to follow with new emissions standards, . . . . . . that amount a de-factor ban across the countr...
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Unusual Public Battle Over An Energy Nomination
Sep 16 2013 03:50 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
The Senate Energy Committee is expected to hold a hearing Tuesday, . . . on the nomination of Ronald J. Binz to head the . . . Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The coal industry maintains that Mr. Binz’s nomination, . . . is part of an administ...
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Universities Are Buying Renewable Energy
Nov 26 2014 08:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Universities matter because they are educating the future leaders, and . . . members of our society. Integrating energy efficiency and renewables into a school’s culture, . . . exposes each wave of students to more efficient and sustainable processes,...
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United Arab Emirates: Going To Renewables
Apr 09 2015 03:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Just last year the United Arab Emirates, stunned the global energy markets, . . . by putting out word that the country was looking to import liquified natural gas, . . . from the United States and Canada. That would have been great news for US shale g...
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Uniblock: Car/truck/motorhome
Jul 24 2016 11:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Self-driving, modular 3-cars-in-1! . . . ‘Uni Block’ can connect to a maximum of three cars, . . . for greater loads, and greater range. 7-24-2016 Source: Uniblock self-driving vehicle
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Un Framework Convention On #climate Change
May 05 2018 12:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
BONN, Germany: . . . . . . Not millions, . . . . . . Not billions, . . . . . . But trillions. This is the amount of funding and investment the world needs, . . . if it is to protect itself from the devastating impacts of climate change, . . . according...
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Un Climate Change Award
Oct 01 2016 06:30 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Google’s revolutionary Project Sunroof, . . . has been announced as one of 13 recipients of . . . the United Nations ‘Momentum for Change’ . . . climate change award winners. Google’s Project Sunroof, allows homeowners to, . . . easily calculate the...
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Ukraine Crisis Goes Nuclear.
May 18 2014 04:40 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Reports allege that some 20 members from the armed Neo-Nazi front, Right Sector, . . . attempted to storm the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, . . . in Energodar city, Zaporizhia province. 2014-05-18 Source: Ukraine Crisis Goes Nuclear.
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Uk: Nuclear Plant Delaied
Jul 29 2016 01:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The UK government's, . . . surprise announcement to delay a final decision on . . . Hinkley Point £18bn Nuclear plant, because of the change of government, and . . . the significance of the project. 7-29-2016 Source: UK: Nuclear plant delaied
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Uk: Marriage Of Farm And Solar
Sep 14 2014 10:55 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
BBC New Solar Farm built at Hawton in 6 weeks. 09-14-2014 Source: UK: Marriage of farm and Solar
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Uk: Decentralised Power
Oct 14 2013 12:00 AM | eds in Economy & Politics
Greg Barker, the UK’s Energy and Climate Change minister, . . . recently expressed that a . . . “decentralized power to the people energy revolution” is doable. Chancellor George Osborne, said . . . he did not want the UK to be a world-leader in fight...
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Uk Renewable Energy Politics
Aug 13 2015 05:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Current UK Government policy on renewables, . . . is not an encouraging one, following their announcements on: . . . . . . ending support for onshore wind and solar, . . . . . . scrapping the Green Deal, . . . . . . the Zero Carbon Homes objective, a...
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Uk Energy: Nuclear Vs Solar
Apr 05 2016 07:15 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Intergenerational Foundation, projects savings of . . . $56.7 billion over the next 35 years, . . . if money earmarked for Hinkley Point nuclear station, . . . was instead steered towards Solar power. The Nuclear subsidy, is to be double, that of...
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Uganda District: 100% Renewables By 2020
Oct 25 2015 09:45 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
In 2012, authorities decided to make a commitment to clean energy in a big way. 10-25-2015 Source: Uganda District: 100% renewables by 2020
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Uber Mapping Roads For Driverless Cars
Aug 03 2016 03:00 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
Uber is to spend $500 million, . . . mapping roads, . . . to prepare for driverless cars. The kind of maps needed for driverless cars, . . . need to be accurate to between 10 and 20 centimetres, and . . . have to be constantly updated. 8-3-2016...
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U.s.a. Solar, Paying Dividends
Jun 26 2015 02:50 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
9% of the federal government’s electricity comes from renewable energy sources, . . . As an example of the success of the federal government’s efforts, . . . the Department of Defense (DOD) has added 72 MW of new solar installations, . . . to more than...
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U.s.a. New Energy Blueprint
Jan 14 2014 03:00 PM | eds in Economy & Politics
The White House formally launches a Quadrennial Energy Review(QER), . . . it will focus on America’s infrastructure, . . . for transmitting, storing, and delivering energy, . . . much of which was built decades ago which includes: . . . . . . 200,000 m...
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