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Japan's Nuclear Superpower (Motley Fool) On Wednesday, Japan's consumer electronics powerhouse, Toshiba, announced that it is acquiring a 77% stake in Westinghouse Electric Company - more than half again as much as it had originally intended to take. As previously reported, Toshiba won the bid to buy Westinghouse Electric out from under the U.K.'s British Nuclear Fuels for a total purchase price of $5.4 billion. Renewable energy offers multiple advantages (Delta Farm Press) Over the past few months motorists have paid more than $3 a gallon for fuel to get them to work, to markets and to even more critical locales such as hospitals. And folks who drive for a living, long haul truckers, for instance, have been hammered by high energy costs. New York University Buys 118,000,000 kWh of Wind Power! (Treehugger) As an adjunct professor at New York University (NYU), it was amazing to hear that the university announced it would purchase 118,000,000 kWh of wind power. It will be the largest purchase of wind power by any U.S. college or university, according to the EPA's Green Power Partnership Program, the largest purchase of wind power by any institution in New York City, and the 11th largest purchase nationally. Conservatives' greenhouse dilemma (Plattsburgh Press Republican) On the same day this week that Canada's energy minister was talking emissions standards with automobile companies doing business in the country, her colleague, the federal minister of natural resources, was releasing a forecast which shows the scope of the energy-conservation challenge ahead. Pondering a future after oil peaks (OCRegister) Two members of Orange County's Board of Supervisors were among a roomful of elected officials from across Southern California who heard a presentation Thursday about the prospects for dwindling world production of crude oil.

Corn furnace keeps Herminie family toasty (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) fter moving into their Sewickley Township home several years ago, Ben and Jennifer Cramer quickly grew weary of paying heating bills that, in some winter months, reached into the hundreds of dollars. Clean technology for a clean future (Bangkok Post) This concept car is GM's third rendition of what is termed as the reinvention of the automobile. It incorporates drive-by-wire and brake-by-wire technology to complement its zero-pollution technology. Hybrid Nation (Outside Online) Thankfully, hybrid cars have undergone a radical makeover since they were introduced in 1999, and the latest models are snazzier, roomier, and more powerful than the original rides. Schwarzenegger signs bill to put 10,000 more hybrids in HOV lanes ... (Capitol Weekly) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that will allow owners of hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles to drive in carpool lanes, even while driving solo, until 2011. Tired of Salem Power Plant? Try solar (Marblehead Reporter) here is no greater local symbol of the threat imposed by global warming than the coal-burning behemoth sitting on the edge of Salem harbor. We decided that it was time to do something practical about global warming, and we recently installed a solar power system on the roof of our house. Click here for yesterday's news Click for this page's permanent location

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