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Thoughts on Ending Energy Poverty and Copenhagen's Zero-Sum Game

December 11, 2009 by Jesse Jenkins
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Some food for thought here: Nathan Wyeth pens a very thoughtful column on the Copenhagen climate summit focused on the key challenges of fueling sustainable global development and expanded energy-access to the billions of energy poor worldwide, via the new WRI-affiliated blog, NextBillion.net: Excerpts below with emphasis added:... [read more]

European Commission unveils plans but no new money for low-carbon technology

October 25, 2009 by Climatico Analysis
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This month, the European Commission published development roadmaps for seven key low carbon technologies. Thy relate to wind, solar, bioenergy, CCS, nuclear technologies, as well as smart grids and energy efficiency, for the period 2010 and 2020. In 2007, the EU adopted a Strategic Energy Technology Plan. It set out a... [read more]

GE, clean tech and your tax dollars

October 20, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Let me state my bias upfront: I’m am admirer of GE and its chief executive, Jeff Immelt, and the company’s ecomagination initiative. GE and Wal-Mart are, as I have written, the most influential companies in America, and it’s great that they are serious about becoming more sustainable, and working with their customers and suppliers to do... [read more]

IEA Sends Message to Copenhagen Delegates: $10 tn Needed to Combat Climate Change

October 9, 2009 by WattHead Guest Contributor
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Originally posted at the Breakthrough InstituteMassive investment in clean energy technology, to the tune of approximately $10 trillion over the next two decades, is needed to combat climate change, according to the International Energy Agency's early release of the World Energy Outlook 2009. The new IEA report argues that the focal... [read more]

World Wide Reactor Deployment

September 21, 2009 by Charles Barton
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Scientists of the Reactor Physics Group at Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France, together with Sylvain David have made important contributions to Molten Salt Reactor technology during this decade. They are among the most important and far reaching energy thinkers in the world, yet outside of the narrow... [read more]