From USA Today.
A funny cartoon, with a serious message. Many politicians and leaders don’t understand the benefits of switching to a low carbon economy.
Shifting to a low carbon economy and embracing ecologically sustainable development will bring untold benefits for humanity, and for Australians.
There is no doubt about the science of climate change, and the predictions [...]
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News from Copenhagen
Sean Kidney, convenor of the Carbon Bonds Initiative, is up in Copenhagen at the moment and is writing up some very interesting tidbits from the side-show.
I was particularly interested in this comment regarding renewables:
2. More practically, Q-Cells, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic solar companies, claims that solar cells have reached grid price parity in [...]
Most subsidies still go to dirty, polluting fossil fuels
Another report from the New York Times tells how in the US, most government subsidies for energy research goes to polluting fossil fuels and unsafe nuclear energy:
Despite a lot of promises, no one so far has wanted to pay the extra costs to make wind and solar more than a trivial energy source. Research is [...]
Alternative energy funded funneled to dangerous nuclear
The New York Times reports that money is being funneled to dangerous nuclear energy over safe, clean and unlimited solar and wind energy projects:
Scientists are hoping to expand the range of sunlight’s wavelengths that can be absorbed, and to cut the amount of energy the cells lose to heat. One goal is to make materials [...]
Germany runs out of solar panels
CleanTechnica reports that, due to its gross feed-in tariff, Germany has run out of solar panels.
A burst of new business at the end of 2009 put Germany close to adding a record of solar power to the grid, according to the head of Germany’s BSW solar industry association, Carsten Koernig. He estimates that in this [...]
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