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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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Environment: How To Gather Data On It
Mar 19 2012 09:15 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Web access to global data and models to help monitor the environment, . . . Faster, Better and Cheaper . . . anywhere in the world. Source: eurogeoss
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Pure Water, Bicycle
Jan 11 2013 07:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Bike 2.0, is cheaper to maintain, than existing systems of . . . water acquisition, . . . sanitation and . . . transportation. Source: cost-effective-water-bicycle Bike Stand Pumping Filtration Transportation
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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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Beijing, China: Issues First Ever 'red Aler...
Dec 07 2015 08:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
In an online statement, the city government said, . . . all outdoor construction work must stop on red alert days, . . . while also urging schools to close. The notice, issued after days of heavy smog last week, . . . also places traffic restrictions...
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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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#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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#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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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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How To Fix Climate Change
Jul 18 2015 07:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
How to fix Climate Change
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#fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot
Feb 11 2017 02:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Radiation levels, on TEPCO's robot, . . . inside the containment vessel, of reactor No. 2, at Fukushima, reached . . . 530 sieverts per hour, . . . a level high enough, . . . to kill a human within seconds. It now appears, that this initial estima...
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#chernobyl's Damaged Nuclear Reactor
Feb 11 2017 02:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
April, 26, 1986, . . . No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant experienced a catastrophic meltdown, .. . sending long plumes of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. An untold number of people, . . . suffered from various radiation-related healt...
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Nasa | A Year In The Life Of Earth's Co2
Aug 02 2015 12:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
NASA | A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
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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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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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#non-Renewable: Ohio
May 19 2017 05:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
FirstEnergy’s plan, for a rescue of its . . . 2 uncompetitive Ohio nuclear plants, . . . need $5 billion to keep afloat, . . . took a nosedive May 17, as the . . . Ohio House Public Utilities Committee suspended action, . . . on the company’s prop...
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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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#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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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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#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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Coal-Fired Power Plants
Nov 18 2015 07:50 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The U.S. and several other key global players–including: . . . . . . France, . . . . . . the World Bank, . . . . . . the European Investment Bank, and . . . . . . the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, . . . have already limited its expo...
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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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Society 'to Be Hit By Climate Change'
Nov 16 2015 02:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
We emit 9 gigatons of carbon per year from our burning of fossil fuels, . . . but there's a 100 gigatons lying just under the Siberia tundra. You have many-fold larger stores of carbon in the topsoil of tropical soils, . . . or under the ice in th...
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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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Jeremy Rifkin On Climate Change
Feb 18 2016 08:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Jeremy Rifkin on Climate Change
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