Sustainable energy: energy efficiency and renewables
Why doesn’t Energy Efficiency get a better press than expensive, impractical nuclear power?
Renewable energy employing 7,000 in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley awash with smart grid development Smart Meters 1 Feb 2010 Clean technology, or cleantech, covers a wide array of technologies including construction materials, electric vehicles, renewable power, and smart meters. Silicon Valley – long a hotbed of cutting-edge development – is now becoming a global center for solar power and smart grid innovation. Continue reading
A start is made on monitoring patients’ radiation exposure
NIH will start keeping track of patients’ radiation exposure
By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 1 Feb 2010Concerned that Americans may be accumulating too much lifetime radiation exposure from medical tests, doctors at the National Institutes of Health will begin recording how much radiation patients receive from CT scans and other procedures in their electronic medical records. Continue reading
Renewable power for electric cars, but not nuclear!
Nuclear power isn’t clean or safe; it’s a menace HeraldNet By Eric Teegarden 312 Jan 2010 “…………We probably have less than two generations to transition. Right now things are not looking good.We stand at a crossroads concerning how we fuel our vehicles and power our homes. Electric vehicles (EVs) are a good replacement for carbon-fueled cars, but only if we charge them with renewable energy (geothermal, wind, solar, tidal, even biomass). Continue reading
Europe’s ‘supergrid’ paves way for baseload renewable energy
Getting connected: Europe’s green energy ‘supergrid ‘By Matt Ford, for CNNJ anuary 31, 2010 It is a criticism frequently leveled at those promoting wind or solar power as an alternative to fossil fuels: what happens when the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine?Well, now there is a smart answer, at least in Europe — we’ll simply and instantly switch to another source of clean, green power. Continue reading
Judge rules that utility can withdraw from crumbling nuclear power project
San Antonio utility wins nuclear ruling By TRACY IDELL HAMILTON San Antonio Express-NewsJan. 30, 2010, SAN ANTONIO — In a victory for CPS Energy, District Court Judge Larry Noll’s ruling Friday clears the way for the city-owned utility to withdraw from the proposed expansion of the South Texas Project nuclear plant without fear of losing its entire investment…………. Continue reading
Non-Africans exploit poor environmental controls in African uranium mines.
it is non-African companies that are exploiting the resource — Chinese, Canadian and French firms. It’s a whole new phase of colonialism.”…..
A recent investigation in Niger uncovered radioactive shovels on sale in the local market in Arlit, a company town next to Areva’s mine there.
The great uranium stampede The Sunday TimesJanuary 31, 2010
“…….The scramble has been set off by the comeback of nuclear power. In the past couple of years countries that for decades had shunned it as an expensive, pariah technology have embraced it anew. Britain is leading the charge. The government envisages a new generation of reactors to replace the rickety old stations that will be retired in the coming years. The renaissance has taken hold elsewhere, from America to the Middle East and China. Continue reading
Some Obama supporters unhappy about tripling of Nuclear Loan Guarantees
the administration’s efforts also could alienate the environmental wing of its base.
Obama To Propose Tripling Of Nuclear Loan Guarantees THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Siobhan Hughes,; Stephen Power of The Wall Street Journal and Christine Buurma of Dow Jones Newswires contributed to this article.) * JANUARY 29, 2010 Continue reading
U.S.A. pressurising Iran with increased missiles in Gulf
US boosts missile presence in Gulf as warning to Iran Pentagon expands. Patriot missile programme across Middle East after Tehran repeatedly spurns hand of diplomacy The Guardian. (UK) James Sturcke, 31 January 2010
The Obama administration is intensifying pressure on Iran by increasing its missile defences in the Middle East to defend against potential missile strikes in the region by Tehran, it emerged today. Continue reading
International experts meet, about nuclear terrirism
Experts seek ways to stop nuke terror By Philip Tubeza Philippine Daily Inquirer 02/01/2010 MANILA, Philippines—A radioactive or “dirty bomb” explodes on a crowded train or inside a sports stadium, killing hundreds. Rods of plutonium are dropped into a water reservoir, poisoning millions. Continue reading
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