Tag: Renewables
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Wind Surpasses Nuclear: Proof Positive Renewables Can Power the Planet
EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE — China’s overall wind energy resource is staggering. Harvard researchers estimate that China’s wind generation potential is 12 times larger than its 2010 electricity consumption …
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Atomic Dominoes Fall While Tanks Leak at Hanford
HARVEY WASSERMAN — This may yet become the first year in decades that the U.S. has fewer than 100 operating commercial reactors. It will also be the biggest year worldwide for the booming Solartopian industries that are transforming …
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Policy Matters: The Clean Energy Future of the U.S.
THE PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS — To reclaim a leadership position in the worldwide competition, the public and private sectors in the U.S. must work together to strengthen the clean energy industry …
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Will Climate Hawk Kerry Have the Courage to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline?
THINKPROGRESS — Does this sound like a man who is going to launch his term as Secretary of State approving the expansion of one of the dirtiest sources of fossil fuels in the world? His repetition of the word “courage” makes it sound like …
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Radical Shifts in Energy Policies Ignite Global Green Economy
UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME — Germany, Kenya and the Republic of Korea, among other states, have set out radical changes in their energy policies to harness the power of renewables, and reinvest in their natural capital …