Nuclear power just too slow to help address climate change
Nuclear power is a particularly slow technology to grow. It is neither a short-term nor medium-term solution to the climate crisis.
Nuclear power: no solution to climate change, Green Left , quoting Mark Diesendorf, 17 April 2010 “……Nuclear power stations, whether conventional plant or hypothetical integral fast reactors, are inherently slow to build, because they are gigantic construction projects.
On the other hand, most renewable energy systems are fast to build, because their components can be manufactured in factories. Continue reading
New York city start for the anti-nuclear renaissance
It’s also the anti-nuclear movement’s opportunity to excite the American people with a vision of what a world free of nuclear weapons looks like and how to get from here to there..
The New Anti-Nuclear Movement, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Frida Berrigan:, 16 April 2010, “………NPT FocusAt the end of April, people will be coming to New York City from all over the world to participate in and monitor the UN Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. They will gather at the “For a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World” conference at Riverside Church in Manhattan on April 30 and May 1. Continue reading
USA’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission ‘in bed with nuclear industry’
Over the years, it has become apparent that the NRC is clearlyIN-BED with the nuclear industry in the push to certify the old nuclear plants for an additional 20-years of operation. The NRC is clearly engaged in a great nuclear experiment with public health and safety hanging in the balance
NRC Wants to Dig Another $10-Billion Dollar Hole in the Ground for Nuclear Waste | Before It’s News , 17 April 2010, “………..The NRC along with the nuclear industry are desperately seeking a quick solution to this dilemma because the government continues to authorize licenses for the construction of more nuclear power plants in the USA. Continue reading
Regions and cities acting on Climate Change, side-stepping international agreements
A pattern is emerging in the geopolitics of climate change this year: Countries are banding together to begin to map out strategies to adapt to and mitigate climate change outside of the UNFCCC process and ahead of a final international climate agreement. Continue reading
Most of world’s electricity could come from renewables
A World Run On Low Carbon Energy No Pipe Dream : Renewable Energy News, 15 APRIL, 2010 |The myth of low carbon and renewable energy sources not being able to supply the majority, if not all, the developed world’s electricity requirements in the near future is being busted almost weekly in recent months. Continue reading
France’s Feed-In Tariff – 50% Renewables by 2015
Revised Feed-in Tariff in France: To Drive Sustainable Renewable Market Development, WORLD WIDE POSTS, 13 April 2010 GlobalData Renewable energy sources offer viable options to address the energy security concerns of a country. France has been making consistent efforts to increase the presence of renewables in the country’s energy basket. France has set a target of a 21% share of renewable energy in the electricity consumption of energy by 2010 and 50% by 2015. Continue reading
Desert solar energy in Ontario could provide immense electrical power
“Nuclear power for all of the United States is about 100 gigawatts. We can produce 90 on barren land with just solar in this tiny region
Solar Power in Ontario Could Produce Almost as Much Power as All U.S. Nuclear Reactors, Studies Find ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2010) — Solar power in southeastern Ontario has the potential to produce almost the same amount of power as all the nuclear reactors in the United States, according to two studies conducted by the Queen’s University Applied Sustainability Research Group located in Kingston, Canada. Continue reading
Renewable energy to have record growth in 2010
2010 will see record overall new investment in clean energy.
Global increase in renewable energy investments in Q1 2010 Alternative energy news, April 13, 2010,New financial investment in renewable energy worldwide totaled $27.3bn in the first quarter of 2010, up from $20.8bn in the same period a year earlier Continue reading
The economic and social realities of nuclear energy
Waste not … or get nukes — High Country News, Eric Jantz Apr 13, 2010 “……..To begin with, there’s the issue of who benefits from increasing nuclear power generation. At every point along the nuclear fuel chain, the flow of money reinforces current economic and social power disparities. Continue reading
Renewable energy gets big boost in Ontario
Ontario Issues $8 Billion in Renewable Energy Contracts – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com April 9, 2010, By JOHN LORIN An Ontario government agency yesterday announced $8 billion in new renewable energy deals under the province’s bulked up feed-in tariff program, with 184 wind, solar, hydro and landfill gas projects winning long-term contracts to provide a total of about 2,500 megawatts of green power…..
Ontario Issues $8 Billion in Renewable Energy Contracts – Green Inc. Blog – NYTimes.com
Nuclear power no good against global warming
Why James Hansen is wrong on nuclear power | Links April 8, 2010 With both third- and fourth-generation nuclear plants outside the time bracket, what is left for environmentalists who hanker after nuclear power? The only option for them is the one embraced by the French and Chinese governments, and now, it seems, by the Obama administration in the US: an accelerated roll-out of second-generation nuclear plants, built to standardised designs following rushed or non-existent consultation with the plants’ future neighbours. Continue reading
Growth of Wind Energy in USA
Wind Energy: Yet Another Reason for Industrial Policy Daily Kos by Meteor Blades – Apr 08, 2010 TA decade ago, the federal Energy Information Administration predicted that the installed capacity of wind turbines in the United States would, at best, reach 20,000 megawatts by 2020. It was one of the EIA’s patented underestimates of renewable energy sources. This morning, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) released its annual report [pdf]. Installed U.S. wind capacity as of December 2009: 35,000 megawatts. Of that, 10,000 megawatts were installed in 2009, the most in U.S. history, and 39% of the total new electricity-generating capacity installed last year, second behind natural gas. Some 3000 megawatts are currently under construction.
Daily Kos: Wind Energy: Yet Another Reason for Industrial Policy
Desert solar farm to boost economy in San Joaqiun Valley
Large-scale solar power represents a way out of those economic troubles for Westlands.
Finally! One Big Solar Project Environment and Business Can Agree On, The Energy Collective, by Taylen Peterson 04/06/2010 “….The plan involves the reuse of “dead” farmland in the San Joaquin Valley. Years of intense farming has left a huge amount of acreage overly salty and fallow. And unlike other proposed solar sites in California, especially the Mojave Desert, this land is not habitat to endangered species.
So without much other use for the land, local residents, environmentalists and industry are pleased with the solar prospect. Continue reading
Successful flight of solar-power plane
Vast majority of war veterans favour renewable energy
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Tell the Ukrainian Government to Drop Prosecution of Peace Activist Yurii Sheliazhenko
Petition to revoke the licensing of the Near Surface Nuclear Disposal Facility (NSDF) at Chalk River. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7247
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