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#coal & #nuclear: Too Big To Fail?

May 26 2018 10:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Reports, in 2017 . . . 1.9 GW of coal plants closed, as . . . 2.8 GW of new natural gas plants were added. In the latest PJM capacity auction for 2020-2021, prices fell . . . 23% – showing that we have...

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Follow The Money: #nuclear Losing Money

May 12 2018 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Exelon Generation, . . . reduced output Thursday night, and Friday morning, at . . . 4 of its nuclear units in Illinois. At least . . . 3 ramped down because of low power prices. 5-12-2018 Source: Follow the Money: #Nuclear losing Money

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Britain’S: Ageing #nuclear Plants

May 10 2018 12:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Cracks in the core of a Scottish nuclear reactor, . . . could signal that most of Britain’s ageing plants, . . . will not last, as long as predicted. Nuclear reactors generate just over . . . 20% of Britain’s electricity. Britain's electricity ge...

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#countries World-Wide Abandon Nuclear Power

Mar 30 2018 12:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

As countries around the world abandoned nuclear power, . . . China had bucked the trend, . . . embracing nuclear power as a reliable, and cheap energy source, . . . that would help reduce air pollution from burning coal. Now nuclear development in Chi...

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Decommissioning Costs Go #nuclear !

Mar 21 2018 04:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Spend $9 Billion, . . . to build a Nuclear power plant, . . . scuttle the project, and then . . . bill electric customers for the next . . . 40 years, to pay off the costs. Is what's happening at the . . . V.C. Summer Nuclear Station, in . ....

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#fukushima Nuclear Fuel Release

Mar 05 2018 03:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Prior to this most recent research, . . . it had been assumed, . . . that only volatile, gaseous radionuclides, . . . such as caesium and iodine were released from the damaged reactors. However, the new research is clarifying that, . . . small, solid...

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#fukushima: Global Consequences

Feb 04 2018 03:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Radiation levels of . . . 8 Sieverts per hour (Sv/h), . . . have been discovered within the Fukushima nuclear power plant, . . . which was destroyed after a massive earthquake, and . . . a tsunami in March 2011. 8 Sv/h is deadly, but, . . . 42 Sv/h wa...

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#coal-Plant Shutdowns

Jan 11 2018 09:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

13 GW of Coal electricity, . . . at more than a dozen different units across the country, . . . are set to retire this year. Texas is expected to have, . . . 5,583 MW of coal retirements in 2018, . . . based on planned retirement dates reported to EIA....

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#coal: Where Does It Come From?

Jan 01 2018 06:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Gas power plants are cheaper to build than coal. . . . They are also cheaper to operate, . . . partly because they can be ramped up and down more efficiently, . . . to match fluctuations in demand and supply. It has become cheaper to build new solar p...

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Who Pay's For Abandoned Nuclear Reactors?

Dec 21 2017 04:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

South Carolina's utility regulators on Wednesday refused to throw out, . . . 2 cases against SCANA Corp., . . . as the utility owner and state officials continue to argue over, . . . who should pay for 2 abandoned nuclear reactors, . . . at V.C. Su...

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Japan: Decommissions 2 More Reactors

Dec 20 2017 01:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Kansai Electric Power Co., . . . is set to decommission the first large-scale reactors, . . . outside of Fukushima Prefecture, . . . since the 2011 nuclear disaster, . . .a move that could affect the government’s Basic Energy Plan. The utility apparen...

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Global #carbon Emissions Above 2 °C

Nov 15 2017 02:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Global carbon emissions will increase in 2017, . . . after 3 stable years of little-to-no growth, . . . according to new research published this week, . . . growing by 2% over 2016 levels, and . . . predicted to increase again in 2018, . . . meaning th...

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Already Past Point Of No Return: #climate

Nov 15 2017 01:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

In 1992, . . . 1700 scientists, penned an open letter entitled, . . . “The World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” Human activities, . . . inflict harsh and often irreversible damage, on the: . . . . . . environment, . . . . . . critical resources, an...

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#coal Plants: Direct Subsidies?

Sep 30 2017 01:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Rick Perry’s, Energy Department, wants, . . . direct subsidies, for coal-fired power plants. Perry has filed a, . . . Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR), under the . . . Federal Power Act, directing the . . . Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FE...

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#oil: Job Problem

Aug 20 2017 01:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Low oil prices, . . . not environmental protections, . . . are stunting Oil's job growth, and . . . Foreign producers have flooded the market, . . . driving down the price of crude oil. In an effort to cut costs, and salvage profits, . . . oil com...

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#water Filter

Aug 09 2017 12:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Rice University Researchers, . . . have developed a simple water filtration material, ...so effective that a single gram of it can treat up to . . . 83,000 liters of contaminated water, . . . after which it can be washed with vinegar and reused. https:...

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#nuclear Power Is Finished

Aug 04 2017 03:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Environmentalists didn't kill the nuclear power industry, . . . economics did. Santee Cooper, South Carolina Electric and Gas Co. . . . abandoned work on t2 new nuclear reactors this week, . . . not because of public protests, but because the on...

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#$4.9 Billion For Abandoning Nukes

Aug 02 2017 09:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Utility customers in South Carolina, . . . may end up spending the next . . . 60 years paying $4.9 billion, for . . . 2 nuclear reactors, that’ll never get built, . . . based on a proposal that Scana Corp. . . . filed with regulators late Tuesday....

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#pollution: Health Costs

Jul 29 2017 03:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

New Delhi, India, costs in 2013 and 2014: . . . . . . $16.9 billion dollars, on Oil, Gas, and Coal subsidies, and . . . . . . $140.7 billion dollars, on air pollution linked health costs. 7-29-2017 Source: #Pollution: Health costs

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#ge: Biggest Dow Loser

Jul 24 2017 02:00 AM | eds in Non-Renewable

General Electric Co., share decline, . . . makes company the biggest loser on Dow this year. GE's Co. Jeffrey Immelt, . . . built up the crude oil business, by spending . . . Billions on acquisitions, . . . just before prices tumbled, and . . . cu...

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#fukushima: 6 Years Later

Jul 16 2017 06:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

43, of Japan’s 54, . . . original nuclear reactors, . . . are still offline. As the only country in the world, . . . to have suffered a nuclear attack, . . . it’s little wonder that a major anti-nuclear movement blossomed in Japan, . . . in the afterm...

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#nuclear Power: Global Meltdown

Jul 10 2017 02:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

With: . . . . . . 1979 (Three Mile Island), . . . . . . 1986 (Chernobyl), . . . . . . 2011 (Fukushima), and . . . . . . now come the bankruptcies, . . . this year will go down, as one of the nuclear industry’s worst ever. As the trickle of closures of...

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#coal Plants Retiring

Jul 06 2017 01:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Idaho Power plans to phase out most of its coal-fired generation, . . . wholesale electric market prices over recent years, . . . have frequently been too low to merit economic dispatch, . . . of coal generating capacity. 7-6-2017 Source: #Coal Plant...

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#nuclear Plants: Over 100 Canceled

Jul 06 2017 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable

Wikipedia lists 100 cancelled nuclear power plants in the USA, . . . mostly starting in the middle of the 1970s, . . . before Three Mile Island. This project is an interesting parallel to the current, . . . 1GW solar plant in development on the . . ....

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#nuclear Plant $26 Billion!

Jul 03 2017 12:00 AM | eds in Non-Renewable

The estimated completion cost for the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactors, . . . $26 billion! PS: there’s a risk of a . . . 15-month delay for Hinkley Unit 1, and a . . . 9-month holdup for Unit 2. PPS: This does NOT include, nuclear Decommissi...

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