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Jeremy Rifkin On Climate Change
Feb 18 2016 08:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Jeremy Rifkin on Climate Change
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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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Is Coal "clean?"
Jul 13 2016 01:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The GOP’s platform committee, . . . unanimously voted to declare coal . . . “an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource.” Environmentalists reacted swiftly to the decision, . . . essentially calling Republicans delusional. Coal...
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Is Clean Coal A Lost Cause?
Oct 27 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The US Department of Energy (DoE), . . . first started sponsoring clean coal technology, back in the late . . . 1990s, and more than . . . $7.5bn of the federal budget has been allocated to supporting its development To date, not a single commer...
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India's Pollution Is So Bad
Nov 09 2016 02:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The smog smothering millions in the Indian capital of New Delhi is so thick, . . . it's over 40 times what's considered safe by the World Health Organization, . . . over 6 times the limit set by Indian law, and . . . plainly visible from spac...
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How To Fix Climate Change
Jul 18 2015 07:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
How to fix Climate Change
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Hottest Year Ever?
Jul 21 2015 12:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Yet another month has set a global temperature record, . . . with June 2015 coming in as the warmest June on record going back to 1880. . . . It follows other record months during the first 6 months of this year, . . . so there’s a good chance 2015 wil...
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Harness The Sun
Nov 12 2015 09:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
“[A] power plant that relies on a carbon based fuel like: . . . . . . Coal, . . . . . . Gas, or . . . . . . Oil, . . . creates an energy deficit from the moment its fuel is extracted from the earth. Every kilowatt-hour of power, . . . is dependent on...
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Green Energy Vs Nuclear And Fossil-Fuel Generators
Jun 04 2012 12:45 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Nuclear and Fossil-Fueled generating units vulnerable . . . to climate change in Europe and US, . . . due to lower summer river flows and . . . higher river water temperatures. Source: nature
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Going Green
Dec 05 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Portuguese environment minister João Pedro Matos Fernandes, . . . has confirmed that his country will stop burning coal by 2030 at the latest. Canada announced it would (virtually) phase out coal, American utility CEOs, and . . . European heads of go...
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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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Gas Generator Prices
Jan 06 2013 07:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
1000 Watts, 8 Amps = $1,000 Resistive loads are pretty simple: . . . they require the same amount of power to both start and run the equipment. . . . Many resistive loads are involved in heating or making heat of some kind. . . . Examples of resi...
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Fukushima: 4 Years Later
Mar 14 2015 12:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Fukushima will take until mid-century, . . . before the disaster is contained and cleaned up. The fuel rods that were being stored in damaged Reactor 4 have been removed. . . . The cores of Reactors 1, 2 and 3 have yet to be located. . . . Are they st...
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Fukushima Nuclear Fuel Rods To Be Moved
Nov 18 2013 12:40 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Highly Radioactive Nuclear Fuel Rods To Be Moved From Fukushima. While things may go as smoothly as TEPCO portrays in its . . . sanitary animated video, if the rods break, collide, overheat, and go critical: The nuclear pile might ignite without a sp...
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Fukushima Experiences Another Earthquake
Jul 11 2014 09:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
6.8-magnitude earthquake early Saturday. . . . struck offshore not far from Fukushima, Japan, . . . the epicenter of a nuclear crisis following a massive . . . 2011 earthquake and tsunami, . . . the Japan Meteorological Agency reported. The casing of...
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Fukushima Delays Restarting Other Nuclear's
Sep 02 2013 10:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Public concern over Fukushima, . . . revived by the news of leaks of radiated water at the plant, . . . have threatened to further delay the restart of other off-line reactors, . . . a key part of the Government's plan for economic revival and . ....
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Fracking-Related Earthquakes In Ohio & Okla...
Sep 06 2015 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Environmental groups now threatening to sue, . . . the Environmental Protection Agency, . . . over failure to prevent the ongoing earthquakes. One of the main risks of that toxic mix of water, sand and chemicals is earthquakes. . . . Oklahoma, which h...
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Fossil-Fuel Divestment
Aug 12 2015 11:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Divesting from fossil fuels, is a strategy that investors of any size can take, . . . to minimize the carbon footprint of their investment portfolio, and . . . divested funds can be reinvested in a broad range of financial products, . . . that can faci...
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Fossil Fuel's: “Base Load” Power Myth
Mar 02 2016 03:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Chine State Grid Corp, Senior executives, . . . from the biggest network owner, . . . in the biggest energy market in the world (China) said, . . . the “fundamental solution was to accelerate clean energy, . . . with the aim of replacing coal and oil,”...
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Fossil Fuel's Gone In 10 Years?
Apr 19 2016 12:15 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, . . . focused on Europe’s energy consumption, and . . . developed models of phasing out fossil fuels completely, . . . within 10 years, . . . if government leaders commit to it. 4-18-2016 Source: Fossi...
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Fort Calhoun: U.s. Nuclear Plant To Retire
Nov 02 2016 12:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Omaha, Nebraska's, Fort Calhoun Nuclear Generating Station, . . . shut down on Monday, October 24, marks the . . . 5h nuclear retirement, over the past . . . 5 years. As plant owners make the decision to retire nuclear plants, . . . utilities must...
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Follow The Money: The Collapse Of Shale Oil
Feb 11 2015 04:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Already, some $200 billion of projects, . . . have been either axed or deferred, . . . mostly because they cannot compete on costs. But, the collapse of the shale oil industry in the US, . . . might give an insight into, . . . what a mass flight...
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Follow The Money: Oil
Oct 02 2015 07:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Oil giant BP Plc's, 2nd-quarter cash flow dries up, . . . so they lowered planned spending. Other Oil companies also look to cash flow, and spending. 10-2-2015 Source: Follow the Money: Oil
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Follow The Money: Massachusetts Nuclear
Apr 15 2016 04:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Massachusetts 728-MW Pilgrim nuclear reactor, is losing about $40 million annually, . . . with little chance its economics will improve in the foreseeable future. 4-15-2016 Source: Follow the Money: Massachusetts Nuclear
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Follow The Money: Fossil Fuel Cleanup Costs
Jun 10 2015 07:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
$3 1/2 billion threat to taxpayers is emerging, . . . in the form of self-insured coal companies, . . . potentially walking away from reclamation obligations, . . . leaving the public holding the bag on costs, . . . for restoring large swaths of W...
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