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British nuclear power consultation flawed: report (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 01:00:55
| LONDON (Reuters) - The British government's public consultation last year on the need for new nuclear power plants to tackle climate change and bridge the looming energy gap was flawed and misleading, a group of academics said on Friday.
The government, which has said repeatedly new nuclear power stations are needed, was forced by a legal ruling last February to undertake the consultation which ended in October. |
Chicken Fat Converted Into Biodiesel Using Methanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 09:00:53
| “Major oil companies are already examining biodiesel as an alternative to petroleum,” said R.E. “Buddy” Babcock, professor of chemical engineering. “With the current price of petroleum diesel and the results of this project and others, I think energy producers will think even more seriously about combining petroleum-based diesel with a biodiesel product made out of crude and inexpensive feedstocks.” |
Welcome to the Solar Century (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 09:00:53
| New technology means solar power could one day provide all the world’s energy needs — but governments must do their bit.
Until a few years ago the suggestion that solar power might provide the answer to the intertwined problems of long term energy security and climate change would have been dismissed as a pipedream. The high cost of solar cells, their inefficiency in converting the sun’s rays into electricity and the lack of state investment or assistance for renewable energy start-ups meant there was little hope.
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Groups seek to stop relicensing of nuclear plants (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-04-2008 at 09:00:53
| HOUSTON (Reuters) - A coalition of East Coast environmental and anti-nuclear groups filed a petition with U.S. regulators on Thursday to suspend all pending relicensing efforts by nuclear reactors in the United States.
A coalition called Stop the Relicensing of Oyster Creek joined with Riverkeeper to petition the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to suspend the license renewal process "until objective and independent analysis" is used, the groups said in a release. |
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