Posted in Energy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
“China’s rapid economic growth and heavy reliance on increasingly expensive foreign oil, the vast environmental toll that is one of the most apparent costs of China’s economic success, persistent rural poverty in China and [...]
Posted in Energy, Europe, Solar Energy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula.
Arranged in tidy rows, like the vineyards and olive groves that quilt the typical Portuguese landscape, the panels belong to a solar power plant that comes on line this month and is due to [...]
Posted in CO2-Emission, Climate, Research on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
Science has come a long way with predicting climate. Increasingly sophisticated models and instruments can zero in on a specific storm formation or make detailed weather forecasts — all useful to our daily lives. But to understand global climate change, scientists need more than just a one-day forecast. They need a deeper understanding of the [...]
Posted in Economics, Energy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
Revenues in four key alternative energy sectors — including biofuels and wind power — will more than triple to $254.5 billion by 2017, market research firm Clean Edge said on Tuesday. Last year, revenues in the biofuels, wind power, fuel cells and solar photovoltaics industries were $77 billion, up 40 [...]
Posted in Wind Energy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
Suzlon Energy Limited has announced a retrofit program to resolve blade cracking issues discovered during operation of some of its S88 turbines in the U.S. The retrofit program involves the structural strengthening of 1251 blades on its S-88 2.1 MW turbines, Suzlon says.
“We have a close working relationship with [...]
Posted in Climate, Europe, Policy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
The EU’s energy intensive industries are trying to get a “free lunch” in the EU’s climate change agenda by making false claims and creating excessive “hype” about the threat of delocalisation or “carbon leakage”, writes Green MEP Claude Turmes ahead of the upcoming Council summit.
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Posted in Climate, Europe, Policy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
The European Union wants developing countries to make more effort to cut their ballooning greenhouse gas emissions rather than rely on carbon offset schemes, a European Commission official said on Tuesday. The Kyoto Protocol on global warming allows rich countries to meet binding targets on greenhouse gas emissions by funding [...]
Posted in Climate, Policy on 2008-03-12 | No Comments »
Europe must prepare for increased competition over dwindling resources, waves of climate change refugees and energy wars, warns a new report to be presented to European leaders during the 13-14 March Spring European Council.
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News: Climate change ‘could bring an end [...]
