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Fighting climate change with nuclear energy

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Jun. 19 (Opinion) - Nuclear power is currently the only carbon-free energy source that can provide base load electricity, Stepp writes, a characteristic crucial to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change. Next-generation nuclear energy offers even more productive strategies for reducing carbon emissions. ...

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After Fukushima, Japan beginning to see the light in solar energy

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Chico Harlan - Jun. 18 (News Report) - Government subsidies raising interest in renewables, but higher bills could complicate Shinzo Abe's economic recovery plan Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels . Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion." The boom was sparked by a little-noted government policy, implemented nearly a year ago, that guaranteed generous payments to anybody selling renewable energy, including solar power. Because of that policy, known as a feed-in tariff, investors and analysts say Japan has become one of the world's fastest-growing users of solar energy. This year alone, Japan is forecasted to install solar panels with the capacity of five to seven modern nuclear reactors. Before the 2011 meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, Japan had all but neglected renewable energy, instead emphasising atomic power. But the accident at ...

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What lies behind the power price increases in Australia?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Quiggin - Jun. 18 (Comment) - To explain the latest 20% rise of electricity cost in Queensland, look no further than the free market reforms kickstarted in the 1990s.

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The Rationale for Wind Power Won't Fly

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Jay Lehr - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - Physical limitations will keep this energy source a niche provider of U.S. electricity needs.

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Google launches giant balloon powered internet in New Zealand

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Google launches giant balloons over New Zealand's south Island, carrying computer equipment that can create a high-speed internet infrastructure

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Google to use balloons to provide free Internet access to remote or poor areas

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Google has a truly sky-high idea for connecting billions of people to the Internet — 12 miles in the air to be exact — through giant helium balloons circling the globe that are equipped to beam WiFi signals below. ...

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Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Thomas Drake - Jun. 12 (Comment) - So we refused to be part of the NSA's dark blanket. That is why whistleblowers pay the price for being the backstop of democracy What Edward Snowden has done is an amazingly brave and courageous act of civil disobedience. Like me, he became discomforted by what he was exposed to and what he saw: the industrial-scale systematic surveillance that is scooping up vast amounts of information not only around the world but in the United States, in direct violation of the fourth amendment of the US constitution. The NSA programs that Snowden has revealed are nothing new: they date back to the days and weeks after 9/11. I had direct exposure to similar programs, such as Stellar Wind , in 2001. In the first week of October, I had an extraordinary conversation with NSA's lead attorney. When I pressed hard about the unconstitutionality of Stellar Wind, he said: "The White House has approved the program; it's all legal. NSA is the executive agent." It was made clear to me that the original ...

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Government boost for offshore wind

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 12 (News Report) - As the government offers £2m in grants to offshore wind innovation schemes, it also sets up a body to attract inward investment to the industry.

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From Trafalgar to Taksim, the politics of the square puts the wind up power | Simon Jenkins

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Simon Jenkins - Jun. 12 (Comment) - Forget Field Marshal Twitter. What scares rulers like Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are the street's wild squadrons Why does power hate a city square? A square fields no army, commands no votes, has nowhere to go. It is just a space. Yet it is space that invites occupation, an occupation hostile to power. Hence Turkey's president felt obliged yesterday to "recapture" Taksim Square in Istanbul. It had become an alternative seat of legitimacy, a place of defiance, an ugly gesture at his majesty. It took tanks, guns, gas and bulldozers, but cleared it had to be. Squares are civic holy places. Their geometry echoes to the ghosts of past uprisings, and holds promise of more to come. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had only to gaze on the turmoil of Cairo's Tahrir and recall Beijing's Tiananmen , Tehran's Azadi , Kiev's Independence and Athens's Syntagma . The very names must have called chaos to the colours and struck fear in the heart of power. A square in a capital city is a congress of the wild, a ...

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Silver linings in the IEA report on 2012 fossil fuel carbon emissions

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Dana Nuccitelli - Jun. 11 (Opinion) - Carbon emissions from fossil fuels reached record levels, but the 2012 rise was relatively small, and there are positive signs As Fiona Harvey reported for The Guardian, the International Energy Agency (IEA) 2012 World Energy Outlook Report found that annual carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to 31.6 billion tonnes (gigatonnes [Gt]).

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Waiting on new climate deal 'will set world on a path to 5C warming'

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Fiona Harvey - Jun. 10 (News Analysis) - International Energy Agency chief economist says rising emissions make limiting increase to 2C 'extremely challenging' The world cannot afford to wait for a new global climate change agreement to come into force in 2020, because doing so will mean an end to hopes of limiting global warming to moderate levels, one of the world's foremost authorities on energy has warned. Carbon dioxide emissions from energy rose by 1.4% in 2012 to a record high of more than 31bn tonnes, according to a report from the International Energy Agency on Monday, driven in part by a striking 6% rise in emissions from Japan following its phase-out of nuclear power and continuing growth in emissions from China. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the IEA, and one of the world's most respected energy experts, told the Guardian that greenhouse gas emissions were continuing to rise so fast that pinning hopes on a replacement for the Kyoto protocol would set the world on a path to 5C of warming, which would be ...

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Carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012, IEA report says

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Jun. 10 (News) - Global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use rose 1.4 percent to 31.6 gigatons in 2012, setting a record and putting the planet on course for temperature increases well above international climate goals, the International Energy Agency said in a report scheduled to be issued ...

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Australians are waking up to why coal matters

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Oliver Milman - Jun. 10 () - Bill McKibben says there is increasing momentum behind the anti-fossil fuel movement, whatever the outcome of the election.

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Climate change: let's bury the CO2 problem

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Myles Allen - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - We can't stop fossil fuels being burned: but we can easily act now to capture and store carbon with CCS technology How often have you read that we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to solve the problem of climate change – shortly followed by frustration and disappointment? People might expect me, as a climate scientist, to be disappointed by the failure of the attempt by the MP Tim Yeo to set an ambitious decarbonisation target in Tuesday's debate on the energy bill. But I'm not. Not because I don't think it is possible, or even desirable: get climate policy right, and I believe we will have largely decarbonised the UK power sector by 2030. And the UK, having led the world into this era of venting fossil carbon into the atmosphere, clearly has a duty to lead the world out of it. But ambitious targets backed by micromanagement of energy supply and demand are leading nowhere. What other country is going to attend a seminar on the UK energy bill and think, "Great idea, let's do that"? ...

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What about local veto for fracking?

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Jun. 06 (Opinion) - David Cameron and George Osborne have pandered to a noisy minority on wind. But doing the same for shale gas would kill their dream of a fracking future.

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Wind farm incentive boost for locals

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 06 (News) - Local communities in England are to be given more powers to resist onshore wind farms, but also offered greater incentives to accept them, ministers say.

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MPs urge UK to consume less meat

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 04 (News) - The UK population must be encouraged to eat less meat "over time" in an effort to make the global food supply more sustainable, MPs say.

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Trans-US solar plane sets off again

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 03 (News Report) - A solar powered plane aiming to cross the US from the West Coast to the East Coast begins its third leg, flying from Dallas, Texas, to St Louis, Missouri.

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Minister attacks climate sceptics

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 03 (News Analysis) - Lib Dem energy and climate secretary Ed Davey is to make an unprecedented attack on "blinkered" and "publicity-seeking" climate change sceptics.

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A Floating Wind Tower Is Launched in Maine

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MATTHEW L. WALD - Jun. 01 (News Report) - A Floating Wind Tower Is Launched in Maine

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Renewable energy is clean, cheap and here – what's stopping us? | Ashley Seager

Sat, 01 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ashley Seager - Jun. 01 (News Report) - Energies such as solar and wind have seen dramatic price falls. The revolution in non-grid energy should be embraced by the UK The report from the Committee on Climate Change arguing that investing in renewable energy would eventually save consumers a lot of money is spot on. We are regularly told by conventional utility companies, many politicians and commentators that energies such as solar and wind are hopelessly expensive and reliant on enormous subsidy. But this is simply wrong. Renewables have seen such dramatic price falls in the past few years that they are threatening to upset the world as we know it and usher in an almost unprecedented boom in the spread of cheap, clean, home-produced energy. Solar will be the cheapest form of power in many countries within just a few years. In places such as California and Italy it has already reached so-called "grid parity". Onshore wind, on a piece of land not constrained by years of planning delays, is already the cheapest form of energy ...

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Opinionator: Can You Eat Too Little Salt?

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By MARK BITTMAN - May. 29 (Opinion) - Opinionator: Can You Eat Too Little Salt?

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Geoengineering: Our Last Hope, or a False Promise?

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By CLIVE HAMILTON - May. 27 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Contributor: Geoengineering: Our Last Hope, or a False Promise?

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Merkel cools EU-China trade war talk

Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 27 (News Report) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she wants to reach an agreement with China over import tariffs and avoid triggering a damaging trade war.

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In a Plus for Electrics, Tesla Repays a Big Federal Loan Early - NY Times: Business

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By PETER EAVIS - May. 23 (News) - DealBook: In a Plus for Electrics, Tesla Repays a Big Federal Loan Early

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