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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT
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the Midwest, coal-fired power plants capable of producing about 12,000
megawatts of power will be replaced in the next few years with gas-fired
turbines, at a cost of $33 billion, according to a study released this spring."
http://www.statejournal.com/story/18363508/coal-to-gas-conversion-not-an-easy-decision-for-midwest-utilities
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:08 AM PDT
New EPA Rules Could Prevent 'Fracking' Backlash - Businessweek
www.businessweek.com/.../new-epa-rules-could-prevent-fracking-ba...
Apr 18, 2012 – ... emissions from natural gas production, a rare set of
regulations that may ... Most of the leakage occurs where it's taken
from the ground, and ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:01 AM PDT
Massachusetts on the Verge of Passing Natural Gas Leak Legislation
In the final session of the legislative calendar, natural gas
pipeline safety advocates are looking to the Massachusetts Legislature
to pass a bill today that would require natural gas companies to more
closely monitor and repair the thousands of existing natural gas leaks
across the state and develop a
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:55 AM PDT
Natural Gas and the Invisible Spill: How Much Methane Is Reaching the Atmosphere?
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2111562,00.html#ixzz26kcBXD5z
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:52 AM PDT
Is Shale Natural Gas Worse for the Climate Than Coal?
Read more: http://science.time.com/2011/04/11/frack-is-shale-natural-gas-worse-for-the-climate-than-coal/#ixzz26kbQmrim
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 10:49 AM PDT
The End of Global Warming: How to Save the Earth in 2 Easy Steps
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/09/the-end-of-global-warming-how-to-save-the-earth-in-2-easy-steps/262418/
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:52 AM PDT
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:40 AM PDT
Natural Gas Vehicles Ever More Feasible for Fleets
WFPL - Sep 7, 2012
On one side, so large it's hard to miss, is a sign that says “Think
Green, Think Clean”—a reference to the fact that this truck burns
cleaner natural gas. ... And if car companies aren't making vehicles,
there's no incentive to build filling stations ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:38 AM PDT
Government sets strict fuel-economy goal of 54.5 by 2025
USA TODAY - Aug 28, 2012
The vehicles will undergo more urgent evolution of current trends so
that, in a decade or so, the American streetscape could resemble science
fiction, including: •More gas-electric hybrids and plug-in hybrids.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:37 AM PDT
Natural gas usage by US trucks to skyrocket - report
Reuters - Sep 4, 2012
Natgas demand in trucks may reach 14 bcfd by 2030. * Cheap natgas could
displace diesel. * Hurdles remain, could reduce demand growth.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:21 AM PDT
Nuclear Power: Is It Time for a Disruptive Technology?
White House Chronicle - 14 hours ago
The company that has revolutionized war in the air with Predator drones
wants to do the same thing for nuclear power. It wants to soar away from
today's reactor designs, rooted in the 1950s and the beliefs of Adm.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 09:05 AM PDT
World Record Academy
Fastest pace of deforestation in the world: Indonezia
World Record Academy - 2 hours ago
[May 05] JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia had the fastest pace of deforestation
in the world between 2000-2005, with an area of forest equivalent to
300 soccer pitches destroyed every hour, Greenpeace said on Thursday.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:42 AM PDT
Subsea ravine leaks a new headache for carbon capture
Reuters - 1 hour ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Companies looking to store polluting carbon
under the sea will have to pay more for tougher seabed screening, after
geologists discovered a three-kilometre long fracture near Norway's
pioneering subsea carbon storage project in the ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:30 AM PDT
Global warming: Businesses see 'tangible and present risk'
Summit County Citizens Voice - 7 hours ago
According to a survey of 405 of the biggest global companies conducted
by the Carbon Disclosure Project, 37 percent say they are already seeing
the impact of climate change on their business - up from 10 percent in
2010. The Carbon Disclosure Project ...
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:19 AM PDT
Southwest Likely to be Loser Thanks to Climate Change
KNAU Arizona Public Radio - 2 hours ago
Despite this year's abundant monsoon season, researchers say climate
change could be pushing the Southwest into a period of sustained
drought.
7 degrees of desperation: Author to speak in Flagstaff on coping with
climate ...Arizona Daily Sun
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 06:17 AM PDT
Climate change could see a third of Victoria's animal species extinct in
60 years
Herald Sun - 19 minutes ago
VICTORIA could bear the brunt of a climate change front that would see
almost a third of animal species wiped out in less than 60 years.
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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 02:26 PM PDT
Please let me know if you will.
Solid progress is being made on book 4: Dr. Lester Brown - Carbon.
Actionable Essentials. It is a practice more common than not in
consulting of all types, and Dr. Brown is a consultant, to generate your
next billing with your current one, by leaving so much hanging, raising
so many questions that you are asked back time, and time, and time...
again.
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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 07:09 AM PDT
Natural Gas Vehicles Ever More Feasible for Fleets
WFPL - Sep 7, 2012
On one side, so large it's hard to miss, is a sign that says “Think
Green, Think Clean”—a reference to the fact that this truck burns
cleaner natural gas. ... And if car companies aren't making vehicles,
there's no incentive to build filling stations ...
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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 07:07 AM PDT
Annual Sales of Natural Gas Trucks and Buses Will Surpass 180000 by 2019 ...
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
- Sep 12, 2012
A new report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant's Energy Practice,
forecasts steady growth in the market for natural gas trucks and buses:
annual worldwide sales of these vehicles will more than double over the
next seven years, growing from less ...
First
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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 06:37 AM PDT
Honor our vets with jobs bill; reforesting Appalachia could be on shovel-ready ...
Lexington Herald Leader - 7 hours ago
Backers of the reforestation
project had hoped for funding in 2009 through energy legislation that
fizzled. Jobs for vets is another chance, if Republicans let it move.
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Posted: 16 Sep 2012 05:56 AM PDT
Visualized: Apple's 20 megawatt solar farm
Engadget - 1 hour ago
We've
seen Apple's North Carolina data center in various states of undress,
but never before have we seen its associated solar farm looking so
complete.
Apple's dual 100 acre solar farms revealed in aerial photosGreener Ideal
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:23 PM PDT
Torque News
Electric Cars Will Reach Destination With Alternative Energy Source
Torque News - 2 hours ago
Not too many people would argue against the fact that the successful
mass adoption of electric vehicles, EV hinges on the feasibility of
producing clean and renewable energy.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:19 PM PDT
World's First Integrated CCS of Coal-fired Power Plant Emissions - US ...
Equities.com - 6
minutes ago
... demonstration project jointly under way by Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and Southern Company, a major U.S. electric
utility, has begun underground injection of carbon dioxide (CO2)
recovered from emissions from a coal-fired power ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:04 PM PDT
Soaring food prices leave middle-class hopeless
Hindustan Times - 1 hour ago
Steady increases in prices of cereals, vegetables and other basic food
items might compel the aam aadmi to cut back on protein, meats and other
nutritious diets.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:57 AM PDT
AWEA Wants New 2030 Renewable Energy Target
Domestic Fuel - 5 hours ago
Several Ministers met earlier this week at an informal Energy Council
meeting in Nicosia. In response, the European Wind Energy Association
(EWEA) warned that their credibility was at risk if they debated future
renewable energy policy without ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:56 AM PDT
No Breakthroughs Necessary: 95 Percent Renewable Energy Possible By 2050De Smog Blog (blog)
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:39 AM PDT
Idyllic Oregon thrust into energy export debate
Reuters - 1 hour ago
COOS BAY, Oregon (Reuters) - When federal officials arrived in this
scenic but economically struggling port a few weeks ago for hearings on a
proposed liquefied natural gas plant, some residents had a sense of
déjà vu: it was only six years earlier, in ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT
A Fracking Good Story
Carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. are at their lowest level in 20
years. It’s not because of wind or solar power.
By Bjørn Lomborg|Posted Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, at 6:30 AM ET
Loving's Comments:
Friend, you are playing loose with the lives of the next 200 billion
kids. Have you no soul? It is impossible that you don't know that
depending on the amount of
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 10:29 AM PDT
The Future of Renewable Power
The Atlantic-Sep 10, 2012
You make a persuasive case that under Steven Chu the Department of
Energy shifted from a typical government agency to something like a ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT
How Social Media Is Helping Plant 1 Million Trees In Patagonia
EarthTechling - 17 hours ago
Then I discovered Reforest Patagonia. Last December, a devastating
man-made fire burned over 43,000 acres in the iconic Torres del Paine
National Park.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 09:01 AM PDT
Republican Energy Policy Puts National Parks at Risk
SustainableBusiness.com - 21 hours ago
The amount of land protected by governments to slow down species loss
and conserve eco-systems critical for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and replenishing the world's fresh water supply grew by an
area the size of Russia over the past 20 ...
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 08:28 AM PDT
Hydrogen Fuel News
Atmospheric wind energy systems could power the world
Hydrogen Fuel News - 15 minutes ago
Wind energy
could be enough to satisfy the entirety of the world's energy demand,
according to a new study from the Carnegie Institution for Science.
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Posted: 15 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT
Power East Coast via wind? Doable with 144000 offshore turbines, study
says
NBCNews.com (blog) - 50 minutes ago
It would require 144,000 offshore turbines standing 270 feet tall - not
one of which exists since proposals have stalled due to controversy and
costs.
Stanford Report
Offshore wind energy could power entire US East Coast, Stanford
scientists say
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