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no Voices from East Regional VIC – Wind farms bring many benefits
Does anybody in country east of Melbourne notice anything out of balance with this pic? Does wind not blow in whole eastern region? Or is it so staunchly LibNat that new Labor State government doesn’t think we’re worth bothering with?
>readmore> Yes2Renewables
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Tagged employment, regional development, renewables, Victoria, wind farms
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Facts won’t beat the climate deniers – using their tactics will
Lord Ponsonby: “How do you speak to the natives?——— Lord Snot: “In English, of course”Lord Ponsonby: “What if they don’t understand?”—Lord Snot: “I speak louder”
To win against Deniers – “Drown them not just with sensible conversations, but with useful actions. Flood the airwaves and apply tactics advertisers have successfully used for years. What we need now is to become comfortable with the idea that the ends will justify the means. We actually need more opinions, appearing more often and expressed more noisily than ever before.”
Hallelujah, let’s do it >readmore> TheConversation
Investors chip in as renewables rise towards record level
“Once again in 2014, renewable made up nearly half the power capacity added worldwide,” said Achim Steiner, executive director of UNEP. University of California Berkeley, reported in Nature Climate Change that solar energy alone could meet the demands of the state of California in the US up to five times over. Meanwhile, US farmers ploughed seven million acres of new land for corn and soy for conversion to biofuels intended as renewable energy for motor transport. In the course of doing so, they could have emitted as much carbon to the atmosphere as 34 coal-burning power stations in one year – or 28 million new cars on the road.
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Tagged Agriculture, biofuels, carbon dioxide, climate policy, Electricity generation, renewable energy, warming
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Unhappy 21st birthday for Uk’s nuclear white elephants
Reprocessing, by neither THORP nor MOX, never having lived up to expectations, Sellafield now has around 7,000 tonnes of uranium, for which there is currently no use and which must remain under armed guard night and day for fear of terrorist attack.
“Two white elephants don’t make for success at Sellafield”
After years of indecision about how to deal with unwanted surplus it’s been announced that THORP should close in 2018 when all foreign fuel has been reprocessed. Even after closure it will take years to decommission the plant and remove the waste.
>readmore> ClimateNewsNetwork
Major setback for latest EPR nukes, especially for France
Over budget by 300% and late by 10 years or more, latest crush is material defect in steel of massive containment vessels, too expensive to rectify. Having been a leader in nuclear, French now saving the planet by adopting renewables.
>readmore> ClimateNewsNetwork
Could Australia become a dumping ground for high emission vehicles
What’s the betting that Macfarlane will do as little as possible, to cause least offence with car lobby, disregarding ever increasing uncertainty causing decline in activity – ashamedly dragging us downwards, backwards, dirty and cheap!?!
>readmore> RenewEconomy
UN War on Golf Heats Up
Only in America…perhaps a poorly-executed parody of Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz’s (R) right-wing beliefs if Cruz had not posted it on his own website, the Tea Party stalwart touts a truly ridiculous conspiracy theory about George Soros…Agenda 21 attempts to abolish “unsustainable” environments, including golf courses, grazing pastures, and paved roads…it actually dates back 20 years, to George W time, when UN Sustainable Development Plan, to bring equality to world of developing and developed nations, was so contentious that it was undermined by invention of term Sustainability, which then and now has no meaning. In the same era, Millennium Development Goals were set in place, with slogans like “Make Poverty History”, especially foreign aid to be 0.7% of GDP of do not countries. Australia has now sunk as low as 0.2%, courtesy of Clown Prince Tony Abbott’s extreme budget cuts. What plans do we have, other than paranoid propaganda which stifles the economy?
>readmore> ClimateCrocks
40% + efficiency from 2 new Australian R&D successes
As the rest of the world is so enthusiastically adopting solar electricity, here are 2 more, local world leading products of R&D. Meanwhile, Clown Prince Tony continues to drag us downwards and backwards with such big subsidies for dirty, climate changing coal.
>read/view.mp4> ABC1 Catalyst
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Tagged concentrated solar, electricity storage, R&D, Raygen, solar, UNSW
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