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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:02 PM PST
Smog Exposure During Pregnancy Tied to Tinier Babies
U.S. News & World Report - Feb 6, 2013
WEDNESDAY,
Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women exposed to particulate air
pollution -- commonly known as smog -- have a significantly greater risk
of having a baby with a low birth weight, according to a large new
international study.
Pollution has shrunk Indian newbornsTimes of
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 01:14 PM PST
Climate Action Programme
Poll: Americans back climate change regulation, not taxes
EurekAlert (press release) - 3 hours ago
DURHAM, N.C. -- Now that President Obama has put climate change
back on the table in his second inaugural address, a new national poll
finds growing public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions and
requiring utilities to switch to
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 08:53 AM PST
NPR
Blizzard alert: Northeast snowstorm could be among the worst of all time
NBCNews.com - 1 hour ago
Millions
of Americans brace for a massive storm that threatens to pummel the
Northeast and dump more than 2 feet of snow on parts of New England.
Winter Storm Warning Issued for FridaySalamanca Press (blog)
Northeast Braces For Powerful Winter Storm,
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:29 AM PST
Climate change threatens food security
ABC Online - 5 hours ago
SARAH CLARKE: With climate scientists warning of a long term global
warming trend, the forecast across the Asia Pacific region is one of
greater variability.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:23 AM PST
Environmental Leader
Head of IMF: climate change is 'the greatest economic challenge of the
21st ...
Mongabay.com - Feb 6, 2013
Climate change not debt or austerity is "the greatest economic challenge
of the 21st Century," according to Christine Lagarde, the head of the
International Monetary Fund (IMF).
"Future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 07:07 AM PST
Columbus Dispatch
A Cleaner Way to Use Coal Kevin Bullis
MIT Technology Review - 9 hours ago
In ordinary coal plants, coal is pulverized to make a fine powder and then burned in air to produce steam to drive turbines.
OSU process gets 'clean coal' energyColumbus Dispatch
New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy Without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale ...Science Daily (
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:44 AM PST
Areva Studies Asia Offshore Wind Projects as Turbines Get Bigger
Bloomberg - 1 hour ago
Areva, Vestas Wind Systems A/S and Siemens AG aim to expand in Asia as China plans 5,000 megawatts of offshore wind by 2015.
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:19 AM PST
Solar farm eyed for closed landfill
The Daily News of Newburyport - 5 hours ago
Mayor
Thatcher Kezer and city councilors this week confirmed there is
interest in using the former landfill at the intersection of Route 150
and South Hunt Road for solar power, which could bring a considerable amount of revenue into Amesbury. But ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 06:17 AM PST
Nanoantenna Solar Cell Efficiency Can Blow Silicon Out Of The Water
CleanTechnica - 5 hours ago
Today, conventional silicon solar cells are 10% to 20% efficient (this
means that they generate 100 watts to 200 watts per square metre of
cells, respectively).
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:40 AM PST
Changing the Conversation on Climate Change. Bloomberg
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:35 AM PST
Farm Futures
Legislators' Climate Change Panel Catches Ag Industry's Attention
Farm Futures - 6 hours ago
Though
it's a controversial topic, U.S. Rep Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and U.S.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., stand firmly behind climate change as a
risk to the country - and now National Farmers Union President Roger
Johnson announced his ...
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST
Media Let Climate Change Off The Hook In Fishing Debate
Media Matters for America (blog) - 17 hours ago
As
government scientists and policymakers attempt to safeguard
disappearing populations of Atlantic Cod off of the New England coast
with stricter catch limits, state and national media continue to ignore
the role of anthropogenic climate change in ...
Climate change
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:32 AM PST
Straits Times
Amazon forest more resilient to climate change than feared - study
Reuters - 18 hours ago
The boost to growth from CO2, the main gas from burning fossil fuels
blamed for causing climate change, was likely to exceed damaging effects
of rising temperatures this century such as drought, it said.
Climate science: Global warming and tropical
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Posted: 07 Feb 2013 05:31 AM PST
MiamiHerald.com
Report outlines climate change options for Obama administration
MiamiHerald.com - 14 hours ago
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Resources Institute, a think tank that focuses on the environment and
socioeconomic development, looks at the technical and legal authority
President Barack Obama could use to build on the pledge in his inaugural
address to address climate change.
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 01:42 PM PDT
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 02:41 PM PDT
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Posted: 17 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT
"In
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: 14 Sep 2012 01:39 PM PDT
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 01:33 PM PDT
Domestic Fuel
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Water-wise biofuel crop study to alter plants metabolic, photosynthesis
process
Phys.Org - 6 hours ago
They aim to apply this knowledge to biofuel crops. The team will develop
novel technologies to redesign bioenergy crops to grow on economically
marginal agricultural lands and produce yields of biomass that can
readily be converted to
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:42 PM PDT
Airlines grapple with food vs. biofuel debate
Chicago Tribune - 8 minutes ago
The European Union plans to impose a limit on the use of
crop-based biofuels, in a major shift in the region's
much-criticizedbiofuel policy, according to draft legislation seen by
Reuters. The policy U-turn comes after studies cast doubt on the ...
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT
Over 450 Electric Car Charging Stations to Be Installed by BC Government
Mobile Magazine - 19 hours ago
They say that one of the bigger reasons why electric cars haven't
soared in popularity is the lack of infrastructure. When you have a
relatively shorter range on a “full tank” of electricity, you need to be
sure that there's somewhere you can charge up ...
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:35 AM PDT
Why the recent plunge in US carbon emissions may not last
Washington Post (blog) - 3 hours ago
EIA expects carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, which fell by
2.3 percent in 2011, to further decline by 2.4 percent in 2012.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:33 AM PDT
Idaho's 1st big solar plant to be built soon
Businessweek - 2 hours ago
Other alternative energy developers, particularly those planning wind
farms on Idaho's gusty Snake River plain, have struggled, as the state
Public Utilities Commission considers rule changes pushed by utilities,
including Idaho Power, that make it ...
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:10 AM PDT
Walmart Expands Solar Initiative in Arizona
Sacramento Bee - 5 minutes ago
The solar panels at the distribution center alone will generate up to
5.3 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year, which is the
equivalent of powering more than 400 homes and taking equivalent of
approximately 600 cars off the road.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 11:05 AM PDT
Solar and wind energy may stabilise the power grid
Phys.Org - 1 hour ago
(Phys.org)—Renewable energies such as wind, sun and biogas are set to become increasingly important in generating electricity.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 10:56 AM PDT
Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost
The Guardian - 2 hours ago
Without nuclear, the battle against global warming
is as good as lost. Even many greens now admit this in private moments.
We are already witnessing the first signs of the collapse in the
biosphere this entails - with the Arctic in full-scale meltdown ...
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 06:49 AM PDT
http://business-standard.com/india/news/solar-power-catching-upconventional-energy/486435/
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT
Reducing Red Meat Consumption Lowers Chronic Disease Risk
Food Product Design - 18 hours ago
Consumption of red and processed meat (RPM) is a leading contributor to
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and high intakes of these foods increase
the risks of several leading chronic diseases.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:56 AM PDT
Ocean Energy Flows To U.S. Grid For First Time
EarthTechling - 40 minutes ago
by
Pete Danko For the first time, power from the ocean is making its way
onto a US grid. Ocean Renewable Power Company said Thursday that Bangor
Hydro Electric Company had confirmed that electricity was flowing from
ORPC's Cobscook Bay Tidal Project in ...
Ocean Turbine Electricity Flows To Power
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:32 AM PDT
Extreme weather likely as ice loss accelerates
The Spokesman Review - 5 hours ago
Arctic sea ice is shrinking at a rate much faster than scientists ever
predicted and its collapse, due to global warming, may well cause
extreme weather this winter in North America and Europe, according to
climate scientists.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:16 AM PDT
House GOP scrubs climate concerns from EPA bill
The Hill (blog) - 14 hours ago
The latest House bill aimed at thwarting climate change
regulations drops previous language that acknowledged scientific
concerns about global warming and evidence of rising temperatures and
sea levels.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:07 AM PDT
Obama Declared Record-Breaking 99 Disasters in 2011
ABC News - 1 hour ago
In a year rife with Southern droughts, Midwest tornadoes and Eastern
floods, President Obama declared a record-setting 99 disasters
throughout 2011.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:02 AM PDT
Fossil Fuel Industry Ads Dominate TV Campaign
New York Times - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama
first ran for president, being green was so popular that oil companies
like Chevron were boasting about their commitment to renewable energy,
and his Republican opponent, John McCain, supported action on global ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:39 PM PDT
Sea Shepherd Partners with Nation...
Beach Caro...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:28 AM PDT
Climate Scientists Face Organized Harassment in U.S.
Bloomberg - 46 minutes ago
While outspoken scientists of human-caused climate change
in the United States endure torrents of freedom of information
requests, hate mail and even death threats from skeptics, their
counterparts abroad have been free to do their work without fear.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:18 AM PDT
Green jobs: Turns out red and swing states are showing the most growth
Written by
Katie Fehrenbacher
in 812 Google+ circles
GigaOM - 1 hour ago
While negativity about green jobs, and the zombie that is Solyndra, are
being used as political fodder for the election year, it turns out that
traditionally Republican and swing states are actually showing some of
the most growth
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:08 AM PDT
China to subsidize energy-saving desktops, air conditioners
Global Times - 10 hours ago
The country will earmark 14 billion yuan (2.22 billion US dollars)
in subsidies to encourage the purchases of six types of energy-saving
products, including desktop computers, air-conditioners, fans, water
pumps, compressors and transformers.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 10:05 AM PDT
ARPA-E and the Future of Power
The Atlantic - 26 minutes ago
ARPA-E is financing projects to test better and cheaper batteries, more
efficient air conditioners, new carbon capture and
sequestration technologies, alternatives to rare-earth materials, and so
on. Maybe electrofuels that bypass photosynthesis will ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:07 AM PDT
Environmental Leader
E2 Report: Biofuel Industry Will Produce up to 2.6bn Gallons by 2015
Environmental Leader - 1 hour ago
Biofuel production capacity has increased from 437 million gallons in
2011 to more than 685 million gallons in 2012, according to a new report
from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2).
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 09:02 AM PDT
The race to make an electric car that charges as quickly as a petrol one
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
When it comes to electric vehicles, topping up the "tank" does indeed
take a long time, one of the primary barriers to more widespread
adoption of EVs
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:55 AM PDT
The race to make an electric car that charges as quickly as a petrol one
The Guardian - 1 hour ago
When it comes to electric vehicles, topping up the "tank" does indeed
take a long time, one of the primary barriers to more widespread
adoption of EVs.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT
New research shows Endangered Species Act is failing
Examiner.com - 1 hour ago
Goble contends that while “The ESA was intended to interact with state
and local regulations to prevent extinction” the reality is that “these
regulations are often insufficient to maintain a species' population,
and the ESA itself may hinder the ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:31 AM PDT
Sudan Inflation Accelerated to 42.1% in August on Food Cost
Businessweek - 3 hours ago
Prices of food and drinks, the biggest component in the consumer price
index, rose 3.9 percent in the month as the cost of meat, beans and
vegetables increased as much as 11.8 percent, the Khartoum-based agency
said today in an e-mailed statement.
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:22 AM PDT
Global Carbon Trading Takes a Big Step Forward
Triple Pundit - 4 hours ago
It
has often been pointed out that our modern world could quickly become
cleaner, safer, and more sustainable if only externalities, such as air
pollution or carbon emissions, were internalized, so that they could be
captured and factored into the ...
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 06:04 AM PDT
LEDs Surging Ahead in Energy Efficiency
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:57 AM PDT
Enough wind to power global energy demand
ScienceBlog.com (blog) - 13 minutes ago
New
research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount
of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects
high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole. Their work is published September 9 by Nature ...
Wind power can meet global energy
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:50 AM PDT
China pushes wind power, but no quick payoff for producers
Reuters - 4 hours ago
HONG
KONG (Reuters) - China will order its dominant electricity distributors
to source up to 15 percent of their power from renewable energy
including wind, but slow compliance means it may be years before the
country's struggling wind power developers ...
Chinese utilities ordered to buy up to
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Posted: 10 Sep 2012 05:38 AM PDT
German solar panels reaching grid parity
Energy Live News
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