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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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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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What Co2 Emissions?
Jul 07 2014 03:40 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
What accounts for the global fossil-fuel-related CO2 emissions? . . . 44% Coal, (mainly used for electricity generation) . . . 36% Oil, (mainly used for transportation) . . . 20% Natural gas, (mainly used for electricity and heating) Crop ecologists h...
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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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Water:
Jun 27 2016 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Electricity generation, is a significant consumer of water: . . . more than 5 times as much water globally, . . . as domestic uses: . . . . . . drinking, . . . . . . preparing food, . . . . . . bathing, . . . . . . washing clothes, . . . . . . washing...
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Usa: Coal Vs Renewable Energy
Aug 26 2016 01:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
USA in 2016: . . . Down 20% = Coal, and . . . Up 17% = Renewable Energy. 8-26-2016 Source: USA: Coal VS Renewable Energy
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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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Usa Coal Forecast
Sep 14 2015 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
USA Energy Information Agency (EIA) forecast on coal. The EIA attributes the cause's of falling coal consumption to be: . . . . . . Lower natural gas prices, . . . . . . Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) and . . . . . . Renewables, . . . b...
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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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Us Nuclear: Declining
Sep 10 2013 11:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Falling more than 4% over the last 2 years, and . . . projections for 2013 show a further 1%. Reactors are being retired early and . . . proposed new projects, are being abandoned. 253 reactors that were ordered by 1978, . . . 121 were canceled eith...
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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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U.s.a. Coal Industry: Sharp Decline
Nov 12 2016 02:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The nation's 3 major coal-producing regions, including the West, . . . experienced the sharpest declines in production in . . . 29 years for 2015, and are on pace this year to hit declines even more severe. A 23% decrease in Coal consumption in th...
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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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Too Much Oil Supply? Raise The Price!
Mar 27 2017 12:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Major oil producers are considering extending their recent cuts to output, . . . in a fresh bid to boost prices. Opec countries, and . . . 11 other oil-producing nations, including Russia, . . . agreed in December 2016 to slash production, . . . the fi...
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The Nuclear ‘Baseload’ Myth
Mar 19 2016 02:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The main claim used to justify nuclear, . . . is that it’s the only low carbon power source, . . . that can supply ‘reliable, base load electricity. But not only can renewables and storage supply baseload power, . . they can do something far more valu...
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The Clean Power Plan
Nov 16 2015 03:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
A conservative think tank based in Austin, Texas, . . . Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) claims it is trying to protect people’s wallets . . . which is true if by ‘people,’ you mean its members. Just take a look at its donor list, which includes...
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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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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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Texas: Model For Killing Coal Jobs
Dec 16 2016 02:30 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
As Texas expands its historic energy leadership into clean energy, . . . blazing new trails in: . . . . . . Natural gas extraction methods, . . . . . . Utility-scale solar PV, and . . . . . . boasting the nation’s largest fleet of wind turbines, . . ....
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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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Taxpayers Mine Rehabilitation Problem
Jul 31 2015 02:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The U.S. coal sector is in financial distress, . . . Peabody Energy, 5 years ago, the stock market currently valued the company at, . . . $18 billion market capitalization, but, today it is worth only, . . . $350 million. Meanwhile: . . . Al...
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Standard & Poor’S "warning"
Jul 23 2014 01:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
US-based credit ratings group Standard & Poor’s has become the . . . latest financial market heavyweight to lend its voice to growing concern . . . that the majority of the world’s remaining coal assets could end up stranded, . . . risking billions...
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Solar Power Reduce's Pesticide Use In India
Jan 06 2014 11:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Consisting of a tray on which a paste of castor oil and shampoo mix is smeared; . . . . . . two 5 watt bulbs, . . . . . . small solar panel, and . . . . . . battery, the device attracts fruit borer and whitefly then traps them in the sticky mix. The r...
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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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Shell Leaves Alec
Aug 10 2015 05:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Considering that Shell, . . . is the 6th largest historical producer of industrial carbon emissions, . . . may soon sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), . . . a U.S.-based lobbying group, who's stance on climate change,...
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