Alternative Energy in the News

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Alternative Energy News Tuesday April 3rd 2007

Nuclear power has too many negatives
(USA Today: Fri, 30 Mar) Nuclear power has too many negatives Alden Meyer, Union of Concerned Scientists - Washington USA TODAY's article Some rethinking nuke opposition correctly reported that the Union of Concerned Scientists is willing to consider nuclear power as part of a long-term...

Blowing in the wind
(The Bay City Times: Mon, 02 Apr) Jerry Decker is ready. His company, Midland Energy, has leased 12,000 acres of farmland in Michigan's Thumb as plots for up to 120 windmills. Decker and his partners are just waiting for Michigan leaders to pass a renewable energy standard, like more than 20 other states already have done.

UN nuclear chief to visit Jordan
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Sun, 01 Apr) UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is to visit Amman this month for talks with officials on Jordan's aim to obtain nuclear energy for peaceful use, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

Fusion Experiments Show Nuclear Power's Softer Side
(Addict 3D: Thu, 29 Mar) All but abandoned twenty years ago, nuclear energy is again hot news. But while new fission reactors vie with wind turbines and biofuels to raise the old NIMBY hackles, some look to a future where atoms are spliced, not split.

Nuclear energy 'not the solution to global warming'
(AFP via Yahoo! News: Mon, 26 Mar) Environment ministers from Austria, Iceland, Ireland and Norway said Monday that nuclear power was not the solution to global warming.

Gilbert Company Helping Calif. Firm Go Green
(KTAR 92.3 Phoenix: Mon, 02 Apr) A Gilbert renewable energy company is helping a firm in California go Green. Diversified Energy is helping Evergreen pulp convert one of its natural gas plants to use renewable biomass-generated fuel.

Ted out to blow down windmills
(New York Daily News: Sun, 01 Apr) Senator Edward Kennedy and his environmental activist nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are in a pitched battle to block a renewable energy plan that would place towering wind turbines off Cape Cod and Nantucket.

Vermont Yankee passes "milestone" in bid to extend license
(Boston Globe: Sun, 01 Apr) Federal regulators have found no outstanding safety issues at Vermont Yankee, giving the nuclear power plant a key OK in its bid to extend operation for an additional 20 years.

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