Tennessee: Early Warnings on Coal Ash Pond Leaks (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
The Tennessee Valley Authority knew for the past decade of leaks at the fly ash retention pond that ruptured two weeks ago, TVA and state inspection reports have revealed.
Judge: Duke Energy Misled Jurors about Witness (Chicago Tribune)
Lawyers for Duke Energy misled jurors about a witness who testified during a trial over whether the utility broke federal clean air laws at power plants in Indiana and Ohio, a federal judge has ruled.
Sempra Solar Energy Project Makes Advances in Costs (Los Angeles Times)
California-based Sempra Generation has unveiled a new 10-MW solar farm in Nevada. An analyst claims the facility can produce power at a cost of 7.5 cents a kilowatt-hour -- less than the 9-cent benchmark for conventional electricity.
Japan Geothermal Projects Pick Up After 20 Years: Report (Reuters)
Several Japanese firms will kick off new projects to build geothermal power plans this year for the first time in nearly two decades, the Nikkei business daily has reported.
Canadian Oil-Sand Mines Stuck as Crude Price Plummets (The Times)
Canada's once-booming oil sands industry is cooling fast, as the plunging oil price undermines investment. More than $60 billion worth of projects in Alberta have already been delayed in the past three months.
EU Denounces Socialite’s Carbon Offset Project (The Sunday Times)
A carbon-offset project in Mozambique run by socialite Robin Birley has been accused by the European commission, its main donor, of making unsubstantiated claims about its environmental impact.
S. Africa to Start Wind Power Project: Official (AFP)
South Africa's state-run power utility Eskom plans to start operating wind turbines this year to boost the supply of electricity in advance of the 2010 World Cup, a company spokesman has said.
Arctic Ice Shelf Loses Another Chunk
Americans can only thank themselves for this disaster, If the U.S. had chosen to be a moral people, and leaving Iraqi oil alone, and following Al Gore, decided to develop the South Western deserts, with the technology of the times - solar/thermal-molten sodium - electricity installations, for the same amount of money as that war cost, ($650 Billion), today, we would be tapping into the largest, renewable, sustainable, energy source the world has ever known. It would have paid every energy bill in the U.S.A. for maintenance fees only - FOREVER! It would be equivalent to an oil field that can NEVER run dry! Low cost electric power, and storeable hydrogen gasoline replacement from the electricity, for all!
After the millions of murders, and $650 billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!
The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopath, rich Arabic saber dancing daddie’s boy oilman, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep! (also see http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan)
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