You know the line — “Renewable energy shouldn’t receive government support. If it can’t stand on its own in the free market, it doesn’t deserve to grow.” The answer — total freakin’ hogwash, horsefeathers, balderdash! First of all, as you might have gathered from the title, fossil fuel’s historical … [continued]
On July 16, in record high temperatures, about 100,000 protestors took to the streets of Tokyo to show their opposition to Japan’s reliance on nuclear power. In June, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Japanese reactors needed to be restarted to avoid electricity shortages. One reactor has already been restarted, … [continued]
Here’s a great guest post from the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, written by Executive Director Dr. Stephen Smith. It covers a few stories that I nearly wrote on here on CleanTechnica and sister site Planetsave, as well as several others. The video at the top comes from the … [continued]
This is a pretty awesome new offering from NREL. And, as far as we here at CleanTechnica can tell, the data looks as accurate as anything we’ve seen. However, one thing to note is that renewable energy costs are dropping fast, and nuclear and fossil fuel costs are generally … [continued]
Well over four hundred tons of uranium have been converted from former Soviet Union nuclear warheads. Called “Megatons to Megawatts,” the program was started by USEC, a global energy company and leading supplier of nuclear fuel. It was planned to last twenty years and is a partnership between industry and … [continued]
36 leading organizations recently teamed up to “fight for a new American Clean Energy Agenda and create a renewable energy reality by 2030,” anti-nuclear organization NIRS (Nuclear Information and Resource Service) states. And it’s about time, isn’t it? Many of these organizations have been fighting for clean energy for … [continued]
Abengoa’s Helios 1 solar thermal power plant went live this week, indicative of the leading, but compromised, role Spanish companies are playing in the fast-growing global renewable energy market. Nuclear and hydro power providers have been reaping the benefits of a flawed Electric Power Act that ties the rates they charge consumers to oil prices.
Japanese electronics giants, solar PV players, and power utilities have been working up project plans in advance of a national solar and renewable energy Feed-in Tariff, which industry observers say may catapult Japan past Italy and Germany as the world’s largest solar energy market. […]
Other than our dozens and dozens of stories and our other news roundups, here are some more noteworthy cleantech and dirty energy stories from the past week or so: Clean Energy (In General) Aruba has enlisted Sir Richard Branson in a 100% green energy push. “The Caribbean island of … [continued]
A reader recently dropped the below quote/list in a comment on a post regarding nuclear power in Australia. I thought it was an excellent one and have been meaning to get to it for awhile. It certainly summarizes my own 7 reasons for being against nuclear. While some people (well, most … [continued]
