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Opinion:

¶ “Soaring growth of solar power demonstrated in one chart” • Auke Hoekstra at the Technical University of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands, looked at successive revisions of predictions by the International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook for solar adoption, measured in GW of capacity added per year. It seems they always get it wrong. [Green Car Reports]

IEA WEO predictions versus reality

¶ “Trump’s Paris accord call will be anticlimactic” • Donald Trump’s looming decision about whether to keep the United States in the Paris climate agreement will be, let’s say, anticlimactic. He could pull out, and that would be no surprise. But if he does, the actual impact on the climate and on global efforts to limit warming will be limited. [Reuters]

World:

¶ Woodstock, Ontario, which calls itself the “Dairy Capital of Canada”, and surrounding Oxford County, are taking a lead on sustainability…

Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Overlay Indian Point Nuclear Power Station – Greenpeace OpenStreet Map Trump Tower 5th Ave NY http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/nuclear/nomorechernobyls/exclusion-zone-comparison-map/ Trump’s house at Mar-a-Lago has nuclear bunkers. Trump Tower 5th Ave., built of concrete, may have been conceived as an above ground bunker. However, even the Trumps might want to go outside, eventually.

They must stop making nuclear waste. The spent nuclear fuel canisters currently used appear dangerously inadequate. The currently filled canisters need to be quickly enclosed in a building which monitors for leaks. Pending new patents, additional spent fuel pools to separate the fuel rods may be a safer option than putting nuclear waste in apparently inadequate, flimsy, canisters of questionable quality, produced by India born Kris Singh’s Holtec or French State owned AREVA. Their monopoly must be broken and more competent players allowed to enter the market – preferably non-profits. Singh has apparently gained a quasi-monopoly due to…

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San Onofre Cesium 137 vs. Chernobyl by Donna Gilmore SanOnofreSafety.org

“Letter to
Governor Jerry Brown
SCE: Southern California Edison
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Public Advisor California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)
Catherine Cross, Administrative Assistant to Robert Weisenmiller, Chair California Energy Commission (CEC)
Commissioner DONNE BROWNSEY California Coastal Commission (CCC)
United States Department Of Energy

In October of 2015, the California Coastal Commission, an entity meant to keep our coasts and ocean safe, granted Southern California Edison (SCE) a permit to bury their Nuclear-Waste on a stretch of beach between Oceanside and San Clemente (in San Diego and Orange Counties). This area is located on two fault lines, and it is not a question of IF there will be a major earthquake in this region but WHEN…

The probability of a major earthquake in this…