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From Copenhagen's ashes, a better way to fight global warming
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Friday, January 15, 2010 |
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The Copenhagen Climate summit has led to much disappointment.Developing nations are not willing to cut down carbon emissions as it makes little economic sense. The cost of doing so is extremely high. The only way to combat the problem is to ramp up green-energy technologies, writes Bjorn Lomberg in The Washington Post.
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Japan eyes solar power from space
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Monday, November 02, 2009 |
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Japan's boldest plan to date is the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), in which arrays of photovoltaic dishes several square kilometres (square miles) in size would hover in geostationary orbit outside the Earth's atmosphere, reports Yahoo News. |
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Tata Motors to scrap electric vehicle launch in UK, upset at delay in govt loan
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Sunday, July 19, 2009 |
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Tata Motors has threatened to scrap its plan to launch Vista electric cars in the UK if it does not receive a 10 million pounds loan from Jaguar and Land Rover deal the British government soon. In April, Tata Motors registered its expression of interest to apply for the 10 million pounds loan to help launch the Vista electric vehicle. But the company was told that it will take another eight weeks for the business department to decide whether it had met the necessary criteria, reports The Economic Times. |
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‘Huge risk’ in alternative energy as proof of global warming cools
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 |
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Daniel Rice, manager of the BlackRock Energy & Resources Fund, speaks his mind on global warming and alternative energy. Unless the global warming patterns reverse and go higher again or the global economy makes a major recovery, Rice believes alternative energies like Exxon's algae fuel initiative will remain very much on the fringe, and investors in the space will face further disappointments, writes Aaron Task in the Yahoo News. |
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Agreeing to permanent IAEA safeguards is on the basis of permanent fuel supplies: Kakodkar
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission told the Hindu, in Mumbai on July 18, that “that “our agreeing to permanent safeguards is on the basis of permanent supplies [of fuel].” He also made the point that there were provisions in the India-specific safeguards agreement for “building up a stockpile [of fuel] to last for the full operating life of the reactors and our own ability to take corrective measures.” T.S. Subramanian speaks to Dr Kakodkar. |
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Can the algae save the planet?
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
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With the never ending demands of non-renewable fuel and still be able to decrease the GHG emission, the scientists finally think have the solution which is Algae. They believe that Algae is a big carbon sink and it can also be converted in many different fuel types. When and exhaust gas is mixed with water most of the CO2 and the nitrous oxide present in this will be absorbed by the algae present and this seems as the best solution to the big problem of climate change reports AFP from The Times of India. |
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Energy-frugal Japan toots horn at G8 summit
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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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At the three-day G8 summit, Japan is showcasing a range of high-tech products that could contribute to a low-carbon economy. Japan sees this as a golden opportunity to exhibit its state of the art technology, produced by some of the most established Japanese companies, to some of the most influential leaders of the world, and the accompanying journalist, from green vehicles to humanoid robots, reports AFP in the Times of India |
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Why the nuclear deal is climate change saviour
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Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
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As the new national action plan has been set to combat the problem of global warming, although it seems to be lacking the key element of the nuclear energy. It is believed that if India installed 20,000 MW of nuclear power by 2020 it would save the world 145 million tonnes of carbon emissions. Nuclear energy will be the only way that India could help substantially as renewable energy wont contribute to much and with the increasing economy and lifestyles, CO2 emissions is just going to increase writes Pramit Pal Chaudhuri of Hindustan Times. |
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Hydrogen fuel at gas station in California
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Friday, June 27, 2008 |
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Shell opened a new hydrogen filling point at one of its gas stations in California, which was charging $4.59 per gallon of regular petrol on 26th June '08. The bright blue "Hydrogen" labeled unit dispenses the fuel by the kilogram. Hydrogen is made and stored in a tank above the dispenser. For now, the fuel is available to roughly 100 hydrogen-powered vehicles on the road in California, all of them being used in demonstration programs by motor companies, drivers won't be charged for filling up at the station, writes Daisy Nguyen for the Associated Press. |
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A Better Way Than Cap and Trade
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Thursday, June 26, 2008 |
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A better response than cutting emissions would be to dramatically increase research and development on low-carbon energy -- such as solar panels and second-generation biofuels. Today, solar panels are one-tenth as efficient as the cheapest fossil fuels. Only the very wealthy can afford them. Many "green" approaches do little more than make rich people feel they are helping the planet. We can't avoid climate change by forcing a few more inefficient solar panels onto rooftops. With R&D that solar panels become cheaper than fossil fuels sooner rather than later. Imagine if solar panels became cheaper than fossil fuels by 2050. |
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