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• The world’s first osmotic power plant from Statkraft

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia The principle of harnessing osmosis has the potential to produce enormous amounts of energy anywhere that salt water and fresh water meet. We looked at some of the approaches to turning this theory into reality earlier this year , including Statkraft’s plans to build a prototype power ...
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• California pushes cap-and-trade plan

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  California today issued the nation’s first blueprint for a broad-based cap-and-trade program to control global warming emissions. The pioneering effort would cap greenhouse gases emitted by more than 600 power plants, refineries, cement plants and other big factories at 15% below today’s levels by 2020. And it would ...
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• 17% CO2 Emissions Reduction – Are You Joking?

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 445
  Yesterday, President Obama announced a target for emissions reduction that the U.S. will take to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. That target will be a 17% reduction in the emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) by the year 2020. IT’S A PHYSICAL IMPOSSIBILITY. This will be a long post, because something as ...
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• Detroit puts the wheels on solar manufacturing

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 415
  In Monday’s Los Angeles Times, I write about the migration of renewable energy firms from California and the Southwest to the nation’s industrial heartland to tap the down-and-out region’s manufacturing might: At a recent solar energy conference in Anaheim, economic development officials from Ohio talked up a ...
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• Biggest California CO2 emitter is…

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 159
  The biggest greenhouse gas emitter in California isn’t in California. A string of PacifiCorp power plants are the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide included in the state’s 2008 inventory of carbon sources tied to state use . California aims to start a cap-and-trade system for carbon pollution in 2012, if it is ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Mongolia on Its Way to Becoming a Solar Power Giant

  
  Solar Power Updates & News — Authority: 113
  Great things are happening in Inner Mongolia when it comes to solar power. This Mongol autonomous region located in northern China is becoming a powerful player in the alternative energy sector, and as such China wants to use the region to house various solar farms.This post was originally published on Solar Power ...
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• World Awaits US Plan to Help Curb Global Warming

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 129
  Washington – With just over two weeks to go before global climate negotiations in Denmark, the United States has yet to decide whether it can meet international expectations and offer to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by a certain amount in the next decade. The success or failure of the talks in Copenhagen could ...
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• Pakistan rolls out fighter jet produced with Chinese assistance

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Islamabad, Nov 23 (DPA) Pakistan Monday celebrated the rollout of a multi-purpose jet fighter manufactured in the country under a joint venture with China.The first locally produced JF-17 Thunder made its debut at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, a small garrison town some 65 km northwest of Islamabad.Prime ...
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• Vedantix report warns UK biomass project could fail

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  A recent report conducted by Vedantix found that biomass investors are in risk of failing to meet operational goals because the country’s biomass sector could only meet five to ten per cent of the forecasted 2014 demand. The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) had earlier set a target to generate 15 per ...
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• Researchers develop tool to tap natural heat for more energy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 23 (IANS) Efficient large-scale power generation from geothermal and other low-grade heat sources may now be viable, thanks to a revolutionary new technology.A team led by Behdad Moghtaderi, professor at the University of Newcastle Centre for Energy, worked with Granite Power Ltd (GPL) to develop the ...
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• Important News - Nov. 22

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  1) Bankruptcy an Option, Says Mayor’s Fiscal Task Force (San Diego) “Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | A private task force of prominent local business leaders formed by San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders is recommending the city file for bankruptcy unless it undergoes a series of urgent and drastic fiscal reforms, according ...
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• Indian PM Manmohan Singh lands in US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington DC, Nov 22 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Indian PM Manmohan Singh is on a state visit to the US, at the invitation of the American President Barack Obama. It is a four-day official visit.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his team landed at the Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland on Sunday afternoon, which [...]
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• ENERGY: Do we have enough uranium for the proposed nuclearization of energy sources?

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 119
  “Counting on new nuclear reactors as a climate change solution is no more sensible than counting on an un-built dam to create a lake to fight a nearby forest fire.” — Peter Bradford, former U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Like coal, natural gas, and oil, uranium is a nonrenewable resource. ...
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• India, US putting finishing touches to reprocessing pact

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 22(IANS) Ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Tuesday summit with US President Barack Obama, Indian and US officials were busy putting finishing touches to a crucial agreement on reprocessing spent nuclear fuel. The conclusion of the pact that would bring their landmark civil nuclear ...
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• Leaving Iraq would bring $53bn reconstruction back to square one, fears America

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Baghdad, Nov. 21 (ANI): The United States has spent 53 billion dollars in relief and reconstruction work in Iraq since the 2003 invasion, but American officials fear that Iraq will not be able to maintain the facilities once the Americans have left, a report in The New York Times said on Saturday.The American concerns ...
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• Radioactive waste contaminating water supply

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Nuclear facilities and power plants are contaminating Canadian food and water with radioactive waste that increases risks of cancer and birth defects, says a new report to be released today.
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• Solar revolution prompts rethink of grid projects

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 415
  photo: Solyndra In my Green State column in Grist this week, I talk to Ryan Pletka, a renewable energy expert at engineering and consulting firm Black & Veatch, who has been conducting economic analysis for California’s Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative.  The rapid evolution of the solar market has ...
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• New Energy Bill Aims at Pushing UK Towards a Low Carbon Economy

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  The latest energy bill that has just been announced aims at pushing the UK towards a more low carbon economy. This new energy bill includes a £9.5 billion levy on electricity suppliers to fund four demonstration carbon capture and storage coal power plants. The levy is known as the CCS Incentive, and it was announced ...
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• UK political parties stipulate policies on climate change

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 436
  A recent article by the Guardian stated that the UK’s Labour party is boasting itself as the forerunner in the global fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions. The group is proud for being the first to put the climate change at the agenda of the G8, to call a UN Security Council meeting on climate change and to pass a ...
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