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Solar Power now Cheaper than New Nuclear in NC Former Duke chancellor, economist cites “historic crossover” . says solar costs keep dropping as nuclear costs climb – and that utilities should stop rejecting solar
The New York Times May 17, 2010 Water Adds New Constraints to Power By ERICA GIES SAN FRANCISCO — In the Mojave Desert, solar developers are scrambling to secure permits to build vast expanses of new generating capacity. But they are discovering that cost and carbon emissions are not the only limiting factors in new [...]
GRASSROOTS CLEAN ENERGY/ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS: KERRY-LIEBERMAN DIRTY ENERGY BILL IS NO SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CRISIS 200 environmental, peace, consumer, religious organizations and small businesses today joined together to blast the Kerry-Lieberman “climate” proposal as a taxpayer bailout of the nuclear power industry and other dirty energy interests that would be ineffective at addressing the climate crisis.
By: Harvey Wasserman April 26, 2010 This week 24 years ago, untold quantities of lethal radiation began pouring into the atmosphere from the catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl Unit 4. Nearly a million people have died because of it. And on this horrific anniversary we have now seen the stumble of a very bad climate bill. [...]
Denis Hayes | Earth Day 2010 international chairman | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2010 4:30 am | Nuclear power has never lived up to the promises of its backers. Their latest claim — that nuclear energy represents an easy answer to global warming — has as much validity as that old industry chestnut of producing [...]
Presentation & Discussion by Harvey Wassermann The Way to Solartopia and Away from Nuclear /Fossil Fuel Energy Dependence What: Talk & Discussion by Harvey Wasserman When: April 19, 2010 Where: The Haven at First & Market 112 W. Market Street Time: 7 pm Benefit Beans & Rice Dinner at 6pm Suggested Donation $5. Harvey Wassermann [...]
In making the case for a rapid conversion away from heavily polluting energy sources like coal and nuclear power to cleaner generation, renewable energy advocates often confront the argument that their scheme is impossible due to the intermittent nature of sun and wind.
Nuclear Power and the Bottomless Bank Envisioning a Nuclear Future—Funded by Taxpayer Dollars By Roger Witherspoon Congress and the Obama administration are on a course to provide the nation’s nuclear industry an unprecedented financial package—one that could dwarf the combined expenditures of last year’s bailout programs. And the legislative package comes with restrictions that would [...]
By Cathy Garger Unless you’ve been hidin’ out in a 1961 nuclear fallout shelter, you’ve no doubt seen a hefty push to create what is gleefully being called a –Nuclear Renaissance.|| With memories of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island –so, like,
“A New Energy Future: Conservation, Efficiency,and Renewables” Physics Building at the University of Virginia Saturday, Oct. 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Keynote Address and workshops on energy efficiency, wind energy, biomass. sustainable food production, alternatives to coal and nuclear energy production and more. $10(includes lunch). Preregistration is encouraged. “REAL DISCUSSION, REAL [...]
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