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Alternative Energy News Saturday January 13th 2007

EU citizens favour renewable energy
(Financial Express: Wed, 10 Jan) BRUSSELS, Jan 10 (Xinhua): European Union (EU) citizens are very positive about renewable energies and many expect fossil fuels to be replaced by renewable energy in the future, according to a EU survey published recently.

California coastal commission sued over nuclear power plant
(The Daily Comet: Fri, 12 Jan) An environmental group has sued state coastal regulators, alleging they violated state laws by authorizing a project at a nuclear power plant without requiring its operator to follow measures to ease the facility's damaging impacts on the central coast.

Merkel says Germany should lessen dependence on Russian energy
(The Daily Star Lebannon: Wed, 10 Jan) Faced with another unsettling interruption of Russian energy supplies, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany must find ways to cut its dependence on any one source of oil and gas, from conservation to renewable energy and even a fresh look at nuclear power, REPORTED AP.

Russian Oil Troubles Trigger Profits in EU Renewable Energy Sector: Analyst
(SYS-CON Media: Sat, 13 Jan) There is a new industrial revolution underwayworldwide, and Europe is in the vanguard. This sea change in the politicsof power will be felt from Birmingham to Bucharest and beyond.

Chinese nuclear power plant goes on line
(UPI: Tue, 09 Jan) LIANYUNGANG, China, Jan. 9 (UPI) - China's $3.3 billion, Russian-built Tianwan nuclear power plant became fully operational Tuesday, two years after its planned start date, officials said.

Open Project to Develop Renewable Energy System
(Slashdot: Tue, 09 Jan) rohar writes "We have been working on a system that combines some existing indirect solar technologies to build a location independent, renewable, reliable and economically feasible indirect solar electrical power generation system. The idea is to 'roll-your-own' geothermal source by capturing heat from the ambient air with a solar powered absorption heat pump, store it underground and generate ...

Hungary's MOL, Iceland's Enex start well-testing in geothermal energypilot project
(Interfax: Fri, 12 Jan) BUDAPEST. JANUARY 12. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Icelandic geothermal energy firm Enex and Hungary's top oil/gas company MOL have started testing the first of two wells in a joint pilot geothermal energy project in Western Hungary's Ortahaza, Enex announced in a statement.

Mol spending Ft 1 bln for geothermal power plant feasibility study
(Budapest Business Journal: Fri, 12 Jan) Hungarian oil and gas company Mol is spending Ft 1 billion to investigate the possibility of building a geothermal power plant near Iklodbordoce, in southeast Hungary, project leader Attila Kujbus told MTI on Friday.

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