States Pursue New Ways to Boost Solar Development
e360.yale.edu — The solar power boom in Germany, Spain, and parts of the U.S. has been fueled by government subsidies. But now some U.S. states are pioneering a different approach: issuing tradable credits that can be sold on the open market. So far, the results have been promising. (Submitted by tbhurst) More…
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Scientists Search for LochNess Monster, Find 100K Golf Balls
planetgreen.discovery.com — When Scottish scientists went into the depths of Loch Ness, they hoped to find evidence of a prehistoric creature along the loch floor. Instead, what they discovered were golf balls, hundreds of thousands of them. Golf balls take between 100 and 1,000 years to decompose in the wild, and as they break down, they release toxins and heavy metals. (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
Energy Agency: financial crisis an unprecedented opportunity
arstechnica.com — The International Energy Agency has come out with its World Energy Outlook for 2009, finding that the financial crisis has caused an unusual drop in both energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. It's also caused a big drop in the development of fossil fuel sources, which the IEA considers a rare opportunity to start limiting their use. (Submitted by DiggUnderground) More…
Biotech Firm Makes a Breakthrough in Creating Fuel from Air
gas2.org — In what could be a major breakthrough, Joule Biotechnologies announced that it has directly produced fuel from just the plentiful carbon dioxide in the air around us using highly engineered photosynthetic microbes. (Submitted by tbhurst) More…
Whistleblowers Say World Oil Stats Deliberately Inflated
treehugger.com — World oil reserves are far lower than officially reported, and the situation far more serious than publicly admitted. That's the word from two anonymous IEA whistleblowers. To add insult to industry, the figures were deliberately massaged, at least in part, to appease the United States: The real figures for oil reserves would trigger a buying panic (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
Spanish Wind Farms Outperform 11 Nuclear Power Stations
ecofriend.org — Spanish wind farms with a theoretical maximum capacity of almost 18GW generated 11.5GW, providing about 53% of Spain’s total electricity needs. The output was a new record in a country that has the world’s third largest array of wind turbines. (Submitted by robinbal) More…
Massive Sinkhole Threatens Entire City of Carslbad, NM
mnn.com — The New Mexico city which is home to Carlsbad Caverns National Park could collapse because of irresponsible extraction practices by the oil industry. The problem is so severe that the Eddy County Commission declared a state of emergency last Thursday. "(The sinkhole) would be like a bomb going off in the middle of town." (Submitted by naturalpapa) More…
The Fight Over the Future of Food
reuters.com — Nearly 5,000 miles away, in laboratories in St. Louis, Missouri, hundreds of scientists at the world's biggest seed company, Monsanto, also want to feed the world, only their tools of choice are laser beams and petri dishes. (Submitted by CaliforniaEagle) More…
10% of US Electricity Comes from Old Russian Nuclear Weapons
nytimes.com — Nuclear disarmament has become an integral part of the electricity industry, little known to most Americans. Salvaged bomb material now generates about 10 percent of electricity in the United States — by comparison, hydropower generates about 6 percent and solar, biomass, wind and geothermal together account for 3 percent. (Submitted by Lederhosed) More…
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