Energy

We Need to Ditch Our Filthiest Source of Energy: Coal
http://richarddawkins.net/2014/06/we-need-to-ditch-our-filthiest-source-of-energy-coal/

I say ditch all dirty forms of energy that cannot be sustained by the earth's natural systems.

How a Solar-Powered Water Wheel Can Clean 50,000 Pounds of Trash Per Day From Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/25/solar-water-wheel-trashbaltimore-inner-harbor/

You know the problem here is not litterbugs but police who refuse to enforce littering laws.

‘Our oceans are sick’
http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/our-oceans-are-sick-291093571737

A clean energy future is coming! The utility company El Paso Electric just announced it will DOUBLE its solar energy production and will be COAL-FREE by 2016. This is great news for the nearly 400,000 customers in west Texas and southern New Mexico. EPE is setting the example that we want to see from all utilities – taking steps away from dirty fossil fuels and toward a clean energy future! Read more on EPE clean energy announcement: http://bit.ly/1js8qHQ

Then add your name here to join nearly 5,000 people who’ve called on Congress to support more clean energy: http://wefb.it/uFHhiJ


Also
Investment In Clean Energy And Efficiency Could Spur A $12 Billion Market
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3454515/off-grid-clean-energy-12-billion-market/

ALPS system brought back online at Fukushima Daiichi
http://enformable.com/2014/06/alps-system-brought-back-online-fukushima-daiichi/

Old news but very important.

Fukushima's radioactive soil sparks fights, exposes the enormity and hopelessness of clean-up task
http://www.straight.com/news/680196/fukushimas-radioactive-soil-sparks-fights-exposes-enormity-and-hopelessness-clean-task

In the months after the 2011 catastrophe, environment ministry experts estimated that the amount of radioactive topsoil from parts of four surrounding prefectures that would have to be “decontaminated” and stored could be as high as 29 million cubic metres, about enough to fill the 59,000-capacity B.C. Place Stadium 23 times.
However, Yuichi Moriguchi, a University of Tokyo environmental-engineering professor, pegged the amount as closer to 100 million cubic metres, enough to fill 80 B.C. Places.
The image attached, is BC STADIUM.



STILL THINK NUCLEAR ENERGY IS SAFE, CLEAN AND COST EFFECTIVE???

Dip yer bread in time for the muck-shifting profession Rex.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

Besides, the gradual familiarising with increasing levels of radioactivity in the air and the water, should, if evolution works as fast as farmerman says it does, enable us to evolve to tolerate levels which are unthinkable now and which might be on the way.

A sort of mass immunisation programme.

Nuclear radiation destroys DNA it does not make it evolve. Immunization causes the body to build up an immune response to disease.

Stop spreading your stupid right wing babble here...

"Radiation works by damaging the genes (DNA) in cells." therefore killing them...

http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/treatmenttypes/radiation/radiationtherapyprinciples/radiation-therapy-principles-how-does-radiation-work

You do look a bit foolish Rex when you set yourself up to save us from ourselves.

But don't worry too much--it wears off with experience.

If you would sit yourself down, merely as an exercise I mean, in front of your HD wide-screen TV for most of the rest of July, and watch the Tour de France, you will see the beast you are engaged in delivering us from.

Chevron Admits The Truth: Oil Shale Will Use Huge Amounts Of Western Water
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/08/3457738/chevron-oil-shale-water/

Natural gas is so much cheaper than solar and wind. (cynical)

Ummm ... this is scary. Oklahoma now has more earthquakes than California.

Point http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/24/okla-earthquake-swarm-fracking_n_4158134.html
Counterpoint http://www.energyfromshale.org/environment/fracking-and-earthquakes

Doubts over ice wall to keep Fukushima safe from damaged nuclear reactors
http://fukushimaupdate.com/doubts-over-ice-wall-to-keep-fukushima-safe-from-damaged-nuclear-reactors/

How The South Portland City Council Foiled Big Oil’s Plan To Sneak Tar Sands Out Of Canada
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/22/3462541/south-portland-big-oil-foiled/

In 2014, Colorado Oil And Gas Spills Are Happening Twice A Day
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/29/3465290/colorado-oil-gas-spill/

Halliburton-owned business almost blows up town, gets $49k fine—and $1.8 million tax break
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/06/1319661/-Halliburton-owned-business-almost-blows-up-town-gets-49k-fine-and-1-8-million-tax-break

Wow. Human activities, including burning fossil fuels like coal, are the main drivers of a HUGE increase in mercury levels in the ocean, according to a new study.

You know what doesn't cause mercury to increase in our oceans? Clean, renewable energy! That's why we're calling on Congress to push the United States to transition to a clean energy future. Add your name here to join in: http://wefb.it/uFHhiJ

Check out more details from the study here: http://bit.ly/1phC7S8

Ecologists Just Saved Miles Of Texas Coastline Using BP Oil Spill Money

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/22/3474439/conservation-land-texas-bp/

Africa Will Add More Renewable Energy In 2014 Than In The Last 14 Years Combined
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/08/21/3473991/africa-adding-renewable-energy/