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Business of Green - Looking for Wind Energy, Some Consider Turbines at Sea - NYTimes.comSeeking Wind Energy, Some Consider the Sea LAST June in a fjord in southwestern Norway, a 213-foot-tall wind turbine did something large wind turbines normally don’t do: it headed out to sea. Towed by tugboats, the newly built turbine, with three 139-foot rotor blades and a 2.3-megawatt ...
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Living on Earth: Harnessing the SevernA tidal project that would put a 10-mile concrete barrier across the United Kingdom’s longest river is generating controversy. The proposed Severn barrage would help the UK produce reliable, renewable energy in its efforts to combat climate change. But critics say the huge tidal wall will harm ...
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Living on Earth: Carbon Saturated Ocean[THEME] YOUNG: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts - this is Living on Earth. I'm Jeff Young. Developments in both science and politics on climate change: The US and China agreed to cooperate on cleaner and more efficient forms of energy. But world leaders ...
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Doubts raised on nuclear industry viabilityThe investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. A...
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Nuclear fusion: Coming to a basement near you soon | DVICELawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. debuted their Focus-Fusion-1 dense plasma focus research reactor in mid-October, after nearly 8 years of research and building. In the blink of an eye, this freezer-sized nuclear fusion demo machine can push more than 100 gigawatts of power through a space ...
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2Living on Earth: Harnessing the SevernIf there's one thing we ought to have learned from the climate change generated by human activity, it is that we must take into account the potential for unintended consequences of our attempts to fix the previous problems we have created. Certainly, every effort must be made to avoid another ...Geoffrey Ames added 29 hours ago
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1Chinese energy producers soar after record snows, Asian banks dip -- DailyFinanceWater or heating? Geez, you just can't mess around with Mother Nature without some unintended consequences!JDP added 3 days ago
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1Climate Change About National Security, Not Just Hugging Trees -- Sphere News, Opinion and AnalysisDUH! Mainly Repbulicans (but also many Democrats) serving their corporate energy company masters have for years "buried their heads in the sand" about this. If we had reduced or eliminated our dependence on foreign oil as Jimmy Carter urged and attempted to implement (torpedoed by the Saudi's ...JDP added 9 days ago
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1Ecosmackdown: Pets Versus Solar PanelsNow if we can just figure out how to get solar panels to purr, roll over, and fetch the newspaper ...JDP added 2 weeks ago
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2Colorado Among State Leaders for Bicycle CommutersWe're number 4! (thanks to Boulder, Ft. Collins, and Denver)Geoffrey Ames added 3 weeks ago
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