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The world’s only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming

Baua Electric

According to Gates, founder and chairman of TerraPower, Natrium will “be the most advanced nuclear facility in the world, and it will be much safer and produce far less waste than conventional reactors.” It’s being constructed near the retiring coal-fired Naughton power plant and is the world’s only coal-to-nuclear project under development.

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I’ve Done The Math – Now I’m Doing Something About It

Creative Greenius

But our friends in the oil, coal and gas industry have 5,795 gigatons of carbon on the books. Let’s not waste our time and capitol building another carbon burning plant that adds to the problem and which we will only have to shut down soon anyway. It’s already figured into their companies value and stock price.

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US DOE Issues Request for Information on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Market Development; Reports to Congress on Program

Green Car Congress

DOE is looking for information on other and related potential early market applications, including but not limited to airport ground support equipment, personal mobility applications, and grounds-keeping equipment. Analysis of excess and/or waste hydrogen sources. transit buses or other heavy duty vehicles).

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Solar Smackdown in Torrance – Installer Sues City on Behalf of the Sun

Creative Greenius

Just two people live in its 3000+ energy-wasting square feet. It’s just this mind-blowing waste of time. He’s a great resource and wonderful guy and he’s a old solar hippy. THE HOLY GRAIL OF SOLAR: $3 A WATT, CHEAPER THAN COAL. And at sub $3 you’re cheaper than coal. Joel Davidson would be the primary one.

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Inside The Green Task Force

Creative Greenius

For more than a year now in this blog I’ve been researching and reporting on climate change, energy and transportation issues and related environmental stories covering them on both a personal and a global perspective. Nobody has their finger on where each city’s emissions are at as Heidi does.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

Green Car Congress

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. To ignore this potential is wasteful and foolish.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

As another panelist pointed out, “ The New York Times is well-equipped to write the article about how Stimulus Funds have been wasted ”. How does the US deal with local and state economies with high carbon economies and little renewable resources? Or is it alive but too expensive and if so, what is the more affordable replacement?

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