 Go Solar, Wind Or Geothermal If You Want Renewable Energy With Life-cycle Efficiency
(Science Daily: Mon, 13 Aug) Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning? Using these criteria, researchers have identified the three viable renewable energy resources as solar energy, wind power and geothermal energy.
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 Report says renewable energy would lift economy
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Thu, 16 Aug) Moving to "a renewable energy economy" would create more than $6 billion in new economic activity, including a $460 million increase in net farm income, and create more then 44,000 new jobs in Pennsylvania, according to a study released yesterday.
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 FPL Proposes Expanding Nuclear Power
(AP via Yahoo! Finance: Wed, 15 Aug) Florida Power & Light Co., a unit of energy company FPL Group Inc., said Wednesday it intends to expand its power production in Florida and will pursue building two new nuclear power units.
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 EU committed to renewable energy
(Farming Life: Wed, 15 Aug) THE European Union is now committed heavily committed to significantly upping its reliance on renewable energy sources over the coming years. But does such a strategy come with its own environmental downside?
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 Nuclear Power In Space - Part 2
(SpaceDaily: Thu, 16 Aug) by Yury Zaitsev Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007 Nuclear power could greatly contribute to spacecraft capabilities. The Soviet Union first developed nuclear powered generators for spacecraft in the 1960s.
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 Renewable energy fair shows oil alternatives
(KTUU Anchorage: Mon, 13 Aug) The U.S. continues to be the world's largest energy consumer and likewise is under pressure at home and abroad to cut back. Conservation is one way of doing that and the other is seeking alternative energy.
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 Energy Firms Plan New Nuclear Power Plants
(NPR: Wed, 15 Aug) For the first time in decades, the country's energy companies are gearing up to build new nuclear power plants. David Whitford, editor-at-large at Fortune magazine, speaks with John Ydstie.
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Adding Up Renewable Energy: Do The Benefits Of Renewable Energy Sources Stack Up?
