Energy

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Philadelphia's new GridSTAR Center will serve as a "hub for workforce training, building performance testing, energy management research and ‘smart’ microgrid modernization deployments.”[read more]

climate change future?

Terrorism seems to be the only actionable trigger in our leaders' minds. Perhaps we need to brand Mother Nature a terrorist to provoke action on climate change?[read more]

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The average amount of energy the ocean absorbed each year over the period 1993 to 2008 was enough to power nearly 500 100-watt light bulbs for each of the roughly 6.7 billion people on the planet.[read more]

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With the EV industry reeling from grim news regarding Coda’s bankruptcy announcement and Fisker Automotive’s apparent demise, Tesla Motors is basking in a trifecta of great news stories that emerged from their camp.[read more]

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As a Wyoming study shows, real people are currently paying the price of lax regulations. It’s time to improve the regulation and monitoring of ozone forming pollutants and close the oil and gas loopholes in our environmental laws.[read more]

US CO2 emissions

The policy lesson is obvious—real and lasting reductions in CO2 come from economy-wide policy effects, not from the current transient boom in the US natural gas market.[read more]

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It's important we learn the "right" lessons from Fukushima. This will lead to improving the response following accidents, and then ultimately starting a meaningful dialogue to reduce the public fear of nuclear energy.[read more]

avian abbatoir?

Normally we ignore the radical fringe, but sometimes claims take on a life of their own. One such charge has found its way as an authoritative reference on Wipikedia, alleging that nuclear energy causes more bird kills than wind.[read more]

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Young attendees were invited to contribute their ideas. In particular, this meeting focused on ways that the symposium could better serve and attract a new generation of nuclear energy organizers, leaders, and participants.[read more]

EU shale development

As a result of the unconventional oil and gas revolution, American states have been updating their regulatory frameworks to include new measures to protect groundwater and reduce air emissions.[read more]

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Like any method of recovering fossil fuels, hydraulic fracturing does do damage to the environment. But, even accounting for methane leakage during extraction, the total carbon cost of natural gas is less than that of coal or oil.[read more]

solar energy apps

People have now become tools of their web and mobile applications. The solar industry has jumped right in with an influx of innovative new online technologies, digital apps, and customer engagement strategies.[read more]

solar energy + natural gas?

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has developed a method of combining solar energy into the natural gas production process to produce cleaner energy output with the same fossil fuel input.[read more]

US carbon emissions

Clean energy supplies have reduced U.S. carbon emissions by levels greater than most Developed countries. Which Government policies and other factors have contributed most towards reduced U.S. carbon emissions?[read more]

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The German anti-nuclear movement is intimately linked to the peace movement, and managed to link the public’s fear of nuclear annihilation with questions about the civil use of nuclear energy.[read more]