Renewable energy appearing as best option following oil disaster
How Obama Could Use the Gulf Oil Disaster to Buoy Renewable Energy, Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World, by Brit Liggett, 05/03/10 Amid the depressing news that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is still not contained nor getting better — over two week after the disaster started — there may be a little green ray of hope. The devastating effects of this oil rig spill could be the perfect moment to garner support for renewable energy.
Last week President Obama announced that he was halting all future offshore drilling until this oily mess is figured out, but we think he should take that a step further. This oil spill is the perfect chance to educate the public about the devastating side effects of our dependency on oil and the clean future that renewable energy offers us as an alternative.
Non profit organisations find ways to fund decentralised renewable energy
“If we can deliver energy on site, whether it’s a school, college or small town, all that infrastructure is already in place. We just have to bring in the actual equipment. We don’t have to build tens of millions of lines,” said NexGen President John Brown, formerly of NREL.
(USA) Nonprofits Find Ways To Pay For Renewable Energy, Colorado Business News, CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press Writer, May 2, 2010DENVER (AP) ― The Upper Scioto Valley School District in Ohio, battered by a slowdown at a nearby Ford Motor Co. plant, wanted to explore alternative energy when it developed a plan to fix its budget and create jobs. Continue reading
India to boost solar energy
Solar energy to get a boost, Sify Finance, BS Reporter | 2010-05-03 The government of India plans to produce 20 million Mw of power using solar energy said director, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy A K Singhal……………Solar energy to get a boost
AREVA’s deceitful spin that nuclear power is clean
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AREVA, France’s state-owned nuclear company is aggressively pursuing its world-wide business empire. Despite the recent revelations of the degradation AREVA has caused in Niger, AREVA claims this image of being a good global citizen. AREVA aso claims that nuclear is “clean”, and “carbon free ” ( forget the carbon polluting fuel and waste disposal cycle)
My advice to California about its “Clean” Energy Park – When you sup with the devil, use a long spoon
AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group Move Closer to Clean Energy Park Today AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group announced another important step toward building the nation’s most advanced Clean Energy Park to region near Fresno, California.
AREVA and FNEG signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop the country’s most advanced Clean Energy Park in the state’s San Joaquin Valley.As part of the Clean Energy Park concept, both nuclear and renewable energy sources would be used for generating clean, reliable electricity..
..When complete, the park’s nuclear and solar energy sources would produce clean [?], constant, reliable, carbon-free electricity
Millions of jobs developing in Europe’s renewable energy future
by 2020 more than 2.7 million people would be employed in the renewable energy sector, culminating in more than 6 million jobs by 2050.
Europe’s Pathway to 100% Renewable Energy CALFINDER< 28 April 2010, The European Renewable Energy Council (EREC) just released RE-thinking 2050, a report outlining a pathway that would lead the European Union to 100-percent renewable energy by 2050. Continue reading
Nuclear inclusion less likely as USA’s Climate Bill is postponed
Graham’s withdrawal of support for the climate bill actually removes pressure on Sen. John Kerry and California Sen. Barbara Boxer, who come from the two most anti-nuclear states in the country. They’ve had to swallow hard to support the climate bill and its support for nuclear energy
Climate bill postponed, Idaho Samizdat ~ http://djysrv.blogspot.com, 
Wind energy growing fast in several U.S. states
U.S. Wind Energy Industry Reports Growth in 2009An Annual Report from the AWEA Reports Record Growth Green Chip Stocks, By Hilary Stingley , April 23rd, 2010 Amidst a slowly improving economy, the wind energy industry saw a lot of growth and movement in 2009.An annual report released in early April by the American Wind Energy Association showed the addition of more than 10,000 MW of new wind power across the U.S.-bringing the total to more than 35,000 MW overall. Continue reading
Finland to add new renewable energy
“This addition of renewable energy is equivalent in scale to three big nuclear power plants.”
Finland Announces Plans to Use More Renewable Energy Greenfudge.org, by Arkisaeo, 23 Apr 2010 Finland announced plans to step up and meet EU requirements on cutting greenhouse gas emissions this week.The EU requirement is to raise the share of renewable energy to 38% of energy consumption by 2020. In order to meet this goal, Finland must raise renewable energy production by 38 terawatt hours. How do they plan to reach this goal?…… Finland also plans on adding wood-based and wind energy systems, plus increasing the use of biofuels and heat pumps. Continue reading
USA Climate bill: Nuclear industry has bought Democrats
Coal, nuclear, big oil defy the odds, Politico, 22 April 2010, By LISA LERER “….coal companies, the nuclear industry and Big Oil — have not only elbowed their way into seats at the table; they are poised to reap windfalls from climate proposals working their way through the Senate. ..
…The nuclear industry courted new environmentalist allies by hyping its status as one of the cleanest sources of fuel and supplemented its policy arguments with increased donations to Democrats……Their work is now paying off, as drafters of the Senate climate bill have bent over backward to court all three industries…..The bill increases financial incentives for nuclear power and provides tens of billions to develop new, cleaner coal technologies. Continue reading
Climategate: how environmental groups have been bought
Already, shining alternatives are starting to rise up across America. In just a year, the brilliant 350.org has formed a huge network of enthusiastic activists who are demanding our politicians heed the real scientific advice–not the parody of it offered by the impostors. They have to displace the corrupt conservationists as the voice of American environmentalism, fast.. The Wrong Kind of Green
The Wrong Kind of Green By Johann Hari, The Nation, March 2010 “…..
as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters–and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant. In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the real Climategate, waiting to be exposed……… Continue reading
Solar energy could outdo nuclear power
Ontario Solar Power could match US Nuclear Power, Alternative Energy April 20th, 2010 –Queen’s University Applied Sustainability Research Group located in Kingston, Canada comes out with two studies that claim solar power in southeastern Ontario can be created in abundance. The natural question is how much abundance?. The answer is mind-boggling. Southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost as much power as all the nuclear reactors in the United States! Continue reading
World Bank urges renewable energy investment for East Asia
East Asia must begin clean energy revolution now – World Bank, EcoSeed, 19 April 2010 , By Claire M. Umali[ ] China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam can simultaneously stabilize their greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 without compromising growth.East Asia’s six major energy-using countries will need to mobilize about $80 billion in investment yearly, as well make domestic policy and institutional reforms, to attain sustainable energy growth, said the World Bank. Continue reading
Finland govt wants renewable energy boost, not new nuclear plants
Minister: Finland does not need new nuclear plants, Google News hosting, (AFP) – 20 April 2010, HELSINKI — Finland does not need three new nuclear plants to secure its future energy needs, the minister who is preparing a government proposal on the subject said in an interview published on Monday. Continue reading
Renewable energy investment doubling in Germany
Wales finding ways to resist UK nuclear power plants
Nuclear fall out, Syniadau , 17 April 2010, “…….we have three parties in the
Assembly who are opposed to nuclear power in Wales, about two-thirds of voters altogether. Yet if you vote for Labour you will get what their leaders in Westminster want in order to meet England’s energy needs … for even Labour acknowledge that Wales can produce twice the electricity we need from renewables. Continue reading
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