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#coal & #nuclear: Too Big To Fail?
May 26 2018 10:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Reports, in 2017 . . . 1.9 GW of coal plants closed, as . . . 2.8 GW of new natural gas plants were added. In the latest PJM capacity auction for 2020-2021, prices fell . . . 23% – showing that we have...
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Coal’S Stages Of Grief
Feb 09 2016 06:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Compare the emotional debate around the decline of the coal industry, . . . to what a person might experience with the death of a loved one. In the last few weeks, statements from elected officials in West Virginia, . . . highlighted the urgent need fo...
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Pollution: Ganges River
May 06 2012 01:00 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
The river has caused the spread of infections and diseases.
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#coal-Plant Shutdowns
Jan 11 2018 09:25 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
13 GW of Coal electricity, . . . at more than a dozen different units across the country, . . . are set to retire this year. Texas is expected to have, . . . 5,583 MW of coal retirements in 2018, . . . based on planned retirement dates reported to EIA....
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“Climate” Report = Things Are Not Great
Aug 04 2016 01:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
2015 was not only the warmest year on record, . . . but also saw several other records broken, . . . records that we didn’t really want to see broken In addition: . . . . . . greenhouse gases were highest on record, . . . . . . global surface temperat...
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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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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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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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Britain’S: Ageing #nuclear Plants
May 10 2018 12:10 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Cracks in the core of a Scottish nuclear reactor, . . . could signal that most of Britain’s ageing plants, . . . will not last, as long as predicted. Nuclear reactors generate just over . . . 20% of Britain’s electricity. Britain's electricity ge...
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New York City’S Nuclear Power Plant Leaking
Feb 27 2016 04:55 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Indian Point, on the Hudson River, a crucial source of of power for over . . . 23 million people, living in the greater NYC metropolitan region. . . . reported a leak of radioactive material flowing into the groundwater. Contamination levels are 80% h...
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Ocean Acidification
Nov 17 2013 12:50 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
When it comes to climate change, . . . the invisible elephant in the room is ocean acidification. . . . Climate scientists have long considered it a legitimate concern, . . . but only recently has it been found, that the rate increase and . . . ecologi...
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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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94% Of India’S New Planned Coal
Oct 05 2016 12:05 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Greenpeace’s Energy Desk, says, . . . 94% of the planned new coal capacity, . . . will be laying idle in 2022, . . . due to an unplanned overcapacity. Numerous demonstrations in India, and around the world, . . . have shown that decentralized renewabl...
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Nyc Teacher’S Fund Lost $135 Million
Feb 02 2016 06:40 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
The Teacher’s Retirement System of the City of New York, lost approximately, . . . $135 million due to investments in oil and gas companies in 2015. California’s 2 public pension funds had lost over, . . . $5 billion due to investments in th...
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Coal-Mercury Pollution. Are We Heading For A Fall?
May 20 2012 12:00 AM | Shortpoet-GTD in Non-Renewable
"Mass extinctions during catastrophic climate change were caused by huge mercury levels, Canadian scientists say. Now, researchers at the University of Calgary have published a paper in the Geology journal, which blames massive mercury levels from...
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#water Filter
Aug 09 2017 12:45 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Rice University Researchers, . . . have developed a simple water filtration material, ...so effective that a single gram of it can treat up to . . . 83,000 liters of contaminated water, . . . after which it can be washed with vinegar and reused. https:...
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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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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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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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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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Picture Of Climate Change
Dec 19 2012 01:35 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Since 1991, there have been peer-reviewed articles on global warming . . . 13,950 say it's human-caused, . . . 24 rejected it. Source: warning-this-picture-may-cause-climate-change
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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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Climate Change: "on The Record"
Jun 13 2016 02:05 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Bob Inglis: We Are All on the Record, on Climate Change
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America's Dirtiest Power Plants
Sep 15 2013 01:10 AM | eds in Non-Renewable
Here are America's top polluting power plants. 2013-09-13 Source: List.PDF MotleyFool
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#non-Renewables: India
May 19 2017 05:00 PM | eds in Non-Renewable
Gujarati state officials, had planned a . . . 4,000-Megawatt ultra-mega power project (UMPP). But, that has now been scrapped, . . . because, India aims to become a solar power leader, and run off . . . one terawatt (one million million watts) of rene...
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