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The Carbon Era
May 21 2016 06:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Carbon Era: . . . Can we really afford to keep up our bad habits?
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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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#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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The "carbon" Bathtub
Nov 06 2013 01:00 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
The "Carbon" Bathtub. It’s simple, really: . . . As long as we pour CO2; into the atmosphere, . . . faster than nature drains it out, . . . the planet warms. And that extra carbon takes a long time to drain out of the tub. Plants, oceans, and...
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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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#$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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#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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#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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#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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#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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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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Texas Invaded By Crazy Ants
Jun 30 2013 02:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
They're called crazy because of their unpredictable movements and . . . swarming populations. The bug is reddish-brown, about an 1/8 of an inch long and . . . has a hankering for honey dew — with a side of electronics. The insects nest anywhere a...
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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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#nuclear Power
Apr 29 2017 01:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Why nuclear power has no future. In California, renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy storage, . . . cost less than continuing to operate the controversial, . . . aging nuclear power plant, at Diablo Canyon. Follow the Money, Westinghouse’s...
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Toronto Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power
Dec 23 2013 09:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Walking is pretty much the only sure form of transportation in Toronto today. . . . An ice storm took down thousands of trees and power lines, . . . . . . leaving roads blocked, . . . . . . 300,000 customers and up to a . . . . . . million people wit...
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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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#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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#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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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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#oil Production Cuts, Why?
May 16 2017 07:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Major oil-producing nations, (Saudi Arabia and Russia) . . . have struggled of late to bolster prices, as inventories piled up, and . . . crimped the potential for demand. Prices dipped below . . . $44 a barrel this month, their lowest level in mo...
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#coal: Follow The Money
May 10 2017 02:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Buffett believes that ‘coal is essentially certain to decline, . . . as a percentage of the revenue’; of his BNSF railroad, amdt . . . hat in one to two decades, they’ll be shipping less coal, . . . or might no longer be burning any of it at all, . . ....
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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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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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#coal: France Say's No!
May 09 2017 06:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
France's president Emmanuel Macron’s climate policies include: . . . . . . phasing out coal power, . . . . . . doubling renewable capacity by 2022, and . . . . . . raising the carbon price to €100 a ton by 2030, . . . but needs a parliamentary mand...
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#renewables Save Money
May 17 2017 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Some of the world's biggest suppliers of fossil fuel, . . . are seeking to use more renewable energy themselves, . . . as they strive to drive down costs, and curb emissions. Glencore, the world's biggest shipper of seaborne coal, . . . said i...
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