The Telegraph's Andrew Orlowski blasts the UK's sluggish response to its energy crisis, blaming bureaucratic delays, a decline in nuclear capacity and proposing small modular reactors as a belated remedy.
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“(W)e haven’t even started to talk about what might be ‘possible’ and are still mostly arguing about what is ‘feasible without compromising economic growth.’ These are of course extremely different things, and the latter will not get us anywhere near the 1.5 degrees C target.” Damon Matthews Although last weeks court cases and shareholder battles have been (rightly) called a[Read More...]
Twelve years ahead of schedule, a new report finds that China may already have had its worst year for carbon emissions—a sign that the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases could be well on its way to meeting the goals put forth by the Paris climate agreement.
(ANTIMEDIA) — The elephant in the room of the blockchain industry is energy usage. Financial pundits love to compare its intake to national consumption. For example, earlier this year Forbes pointed out that Bitcoin’s proof of work mechanism uses the same amount of electricity in a year as the entire nation of Switzerland. Ars Technica compared Bitcoin usage to the nation […]
Conservatives want members of Congress to look like the mug on the right, never like the young woman on the leftConnecticut Democratic primary voters basically kicked Joe Lieberman out of the party by denying him the 2006 Democratic nomination for the Senate seat he had held since 1994. He ran on the Connecticut for Lieberman Party that year.
Prometheus, bringer of fire, was punished for the crime of rendering less the sum of human wretchedness (Byron). Can we replace his gift with another? Or will we let the fire we burn, burn us?by Gaius PubliusIn the beginning, before we emerged into civilization, we were given fire as a source of energy — all we had to do was light it.
Liam Fox, right, British Secretary of State for International Trade, and Damien Green, the Work and Pensions Secretary smile as they leave 10 Downing Street following the weekly cabinet meeting in London, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. (AP/Alastair Grant)
The UK government has provided fossil fuel companies with £6.9 billion in financial support since 2000, according to a joint investigation by Energydesk and Private Eye.
Denmark just set a world record for one of its energy production sectors.
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Costa Rica was completely fossil fuel-free for 285 days this year.
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