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Oil Prices Will Most Likely Go
Jul 24 2015 04:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The United Arab Emirates’ Energy Ministry, . . . has decided to terminate gasoline subsidies, . . . as the country’s economy is being negatively affected, by low oil prices. Gasoline in the UAE is equivalent to, . . . $1.78/gallon and the policy...
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Follow The Money: Coal
Jul 23 2015 01:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Deutsche Bank highlights just how dramatic the renewable energy revolution, . . . instigated by the India's Modi government in solar alone, . . . will outstrip that of coal generation in 3 years. That, in turn, will have a significant impact on coa...
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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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How To Fix Climate Change
Jul 18 2015 07:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
How to fix Climate Change
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Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Jul 17 2015 08:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
US Interior Dept. Just Made Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining, . . . A Lot More Expensive. Since the 1970s, the coal industry has blasted apart more than, . . . 500 of the oldest, most biologically rich mountains in America, and . . . destroyed more th...
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$10 Million Every Minute!!!
Jul 08 2015 04:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
An estimate by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), . . . reveals that the true cost of fossil fuels is expected to total . . . $5.3 trillion in subsidies in 2015. Broken down, the number becomes, . . . $10 Million every Minute!!...
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Clean Coal Projects Fail
Jun 30 2015 04:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
With growing concerns about climate change, . . . there is renewed pressure to restrict use of coal, . . . a major source of power generation in many countries. Yale project on Climate Change, shows Temperature Rising almost Everywhere. Coal lobby, co...
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Pacificorp Axing Coal
Jun 19 2015 12:15 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Oregon-based utility and Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary PacifiCorp, . . . filed plans this month, to shut down nearly, . . . 3 GW of its coal generation by 2033, . . . nearly 1/2 of the company’s total coal-fired capacity. 06-18-2015 Source: PacifiCor...
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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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Us Power Plants Vs Climate Change
May 30 2015 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Electric Power Plants, use a lot of Water. The effects of climate change, could hamper electric generating capacity, . . . in the Western U.S., during peak summertime energy use, . . . from 3% to 9%, during a drought, and . . . 14 states, could be adve...
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University Of Hawaii & Edinburgh
May 27 2015 05:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
U.S.A.'s University of Hawaii, agreed to divest from: . . . . . . Coal, . . . . . . Oil, and . . . . . . Gas companies, making it the largest university to do so. Scotland’s University of Edinburgh, intends to divest from, . . . 3 of the world’s b...
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What Are Renewables Doing To Oil
May 23 2015 10:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
“Ask not only what the oil price will do to renewables, . . . but ask also what renewables will do to oil prices.” 05-23-2015 Source: What are Renewables doing to Oil
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Koch Brothers Claim Another State
May 16 2015 10:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Throughout the last 2 decades, . . . state after state has passed, . . . renewable energy standards. Koch Industries and advocacy groups, funded by the Koch brothers, including: . . . . . . Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and . . . . . . American Legi...
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Usa Coal Plants Shutting Down
May 15 2015 02:25 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Utilities in the U.S. have to comply with the EPA's, . . . new Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) . . . which took effect last month. This means that many coal power plants, . . . that don't meet the new maximum emission thresholds are shu...
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Deniers Vs Science
Apr 19 2015 11:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Global Warming Skeptics VS The Scientific Consensus. 04-19-2015 Source: Deniers VS Science
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What's Your Plan, For The Next 17 Years?
Apr 19 2015 10:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
How much time do we have, . . . before we break our "Carbon Budget." 04-19-2015 Source: What's your plan, for the next 17 years?
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Beijing: Pollution Was Just Too Much
Mar 27 2015 10:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Beijing to close its last remaining coal plant in 2016. . . . pollution is now the #1 cause of social unrest in China. 03-27-2015 Source: Beijing: Pollution was just too much
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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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Follow The Money: Energy Industry Civil War
Mar 05 2015 05:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Renewable Energy gets cheaper, . . . causing the fossil fuel giants, at war with each other, . . . over their declining market share, and . . . plunging market prices for their commodities. OPEC Oil prices drop, causing . . . more than 1/3 of shale oi...
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Climate Change = Drought = Violance
Mar 03 2015 09:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
A scientific team, . . . began with some evidence that Syria’s 2007−2010 drought . . . (the worst drought on record there, . . . which caused widespread crop failure, and . . . spurred a rapid exodus of 1.5 million from farms to the cities) . . . contr...
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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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Making Fossil Fuels Efficient?
Jan 29 2015 04:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
A joint partnership between GE and Statoil, aims to: . . . Reduce emissions from oil and shale gas production, while also, . . . creating Efficient and Low-Cost technologies to do so. 01-29-2015 Source: Making Fossil Fuels Efficient?
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Environmental Disaster
Jan 23 2015 04:40 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Problem: One of the worst environmental disasters in Israel’s history, . . . between 3 and 5 million liters of raw crude oil, . . . gushed from a burst pipeline near the Evrona Nature Reserve, . . . in the Arava Desert on December 3 last year. Solutio...
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Elon Musk & Dr. Steven Chu
Dec 22 2014 03:15 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
“As far as Earth is concerned, . . . I think the biggest problem that humanity faces, is one of sustainable energy. . . . If we don’t solve that problem this century, . . . . . . independent of any environmental concerns, we will face economic collapse...
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Elon Musk Quotes
Dec 21 2014 07:20 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
If you’re in non-renewables, . . . it’s like you’re stuck in a room where the oxygen is gradually depleting, and . . . then outside, it’s not. So you want to get out of that room. And . . . I think the ones that get out of the room sooner, will be bett...
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