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Carbon Capture

Biomass: should we burn trees to generate electricity? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

... absorption is greater than extraction, it is not a case of waiting for a new tree to re-grow so carbon balance is maintained. For example, in 2012 the US EPA reported that forest carbon sequestration in the US had increased 31 per cent since 1990 even as demand for wood increased. In fact, taking the US as an example: There seems to be some concern and debate about the "sustainability ...

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Solar

Tesla Repays $465 Million Government Loan Early - NYTimes.com

... million loan that the Energy Department made in 2010. The repayment is a lift to the Obama administration, whose clean-energy loan programs faced criticism after the collapse of Solyndra, the solar panel maker. The company, using money it raised last week in the markets, is repaying the government nine years before its loan was due. "Today's repayment is the latest indication that the Energy ...

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Nuclear

U.S. Congress moves to tighten sanctions on Iran - Yahoo! News

... President Barack Obama 's administration to do more to crack down on Iran's nuclear program. A U.N. report showed on Wednesday that Iran was pressing ahead with constructing a nuclear reactor that Western experts say could offer it a second way of producing material for a nuclear bomb if it decides to make one. There is not yet a companion Senate bill to the House measure, but the ...

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Hydroelectric

World Bank pledges $1 billion to aid peace in Africa's Great Lakes | Reuters

... economic development, create jobs, and improve the lives of people who have suffered for far too long." The biggest chunk of the aid - $340 million - will go towards an 80-megawatt hydroelectric project in Rusumo Falls, providing electricity to Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania to ease chronic black-outs. PEACE DIVIDEND African leaders signed a deal in February seeking to end two decades of ...

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Coal

College Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Continues To Grow On Campuses

... University. "The world that we're going to be raising our kids in is going to be very different from the one we were born into." The campaign targets companies that own most of the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves. While many schools argue divestment would harm their endowments, an analysis conducted for The Associated Press casts doubt on that. The research firm S&P Capital IQ ...

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Oil

College Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Continues To Grow On Campuses

... "The world that we're going to be raising our kids in is going to be very different from the one we were born into." The campaign targets companies that own most of the world's coal, oil and natural gas reserves. While many schools argue divestment would harm their endowments, an analysis conducted for The Associated Press casts doubt on that. The research firm S&P Capital IQ found ...

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Gas

College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds - Yahoo! News

... about climate change. And unlike apartheid, the target of previous divestment campaigns, there is no ready alternative to fossil fuels. The global economy is powered by coal, oil and natural gas. Affordable, low-carbon alternatives to these fuels aren't widely available. Campaign organizers acknowledged their efforts may take years to have any effect, but they are frustrated, they said, ...

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Wind

Biomass: should we burn trees to generate electricity? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

... big hole we're in on climate change. Assuming that the NGOs still support the 2 degrees Celsius global carbon budget limit (2DS), then are they really suggesting we can run the economy on wind power (I am a supporter), solar PV and electric cars? Do they think tidal power won't get massive opposition from other NGOs? This is just not credible and allows critics to dismiss NGOs and go all out ...

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Geothermal

Geothermal Energy Interests Growing Steadily in Japan

... A unit of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp., Japan’s largest steelmaker, expects annual sales of 5 billion yen ($49 million) from its geothermal business as early as 2015. Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co. plans to expand its business in Japan and in countries such as Indonesia, Ryuichi Kageyama, general manager for the geothermal power business, said at a briefing today. It also ...

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Green Energy

Tesla Repays $465 Million Government Loan Early - NYTimes.com

... tax credits that reduce the purchase price. After a $7,500 tax credit, the lowest-cost Model S is $62,400. The company is also able to generate large amounts of revenue from selling green energy credits to other automakers. Morgan Stanley estimates that Tesla can cover its capital expenditures this year from selling those credits. Tesla was able to pay back the loan all at once because it ...

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Renewable Energy

Warning Scotland Against Independence: Renewables Will Suffer, Says Ed Davey

... The energy secretary also used his speech to reveal new figures from his department that show that since 2010, more than £29bn of investment has been announced in UK renewable energy. Of that total figure, £14.5 billion went to England, £13.1 billion to Scotland, £1.4 billion to Wales and £304 million to Northern Ireland. "The UK offers a uniquely ...

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Alternative Energy

Why Your Auto ETF Is Missing Out On Tesla's (TSLA) Rally - Yahoo! Finance

... when investing, but not investing has cost some huge returns[for more ETF analysis, make sure to sign up for ourfree ETF newsletter]. A Clean Energy Fund's Hero Incomparison the alternative energyfund (QCLN, B- )is by no means the most popular or largest ETF, but its heavy bet in Tesla has proven very lucrative for the fund.By following a modified market cap weighted index, QCLN tracks the ...

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Carbon Credits

Biomass: should we burn trees to generate electricity? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

... hold. Recent work by Dr Martin Jungunger of Utrecht University shows that either carbon debt' doesn't exist or it is very short even with adverse assumptions (Carbon payback period and carbon offset parity point of wood pellet production in the South-eastern United States, Jan Gerrit, Geurt Jonker, Martin Junginger and Andre Faaij, University of Utrecht). What is this obsession with whole trees' ...

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