This is a nice report on global warming and renewable energy, produced by Greenpeace. It is about 12 minutes long.
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Combating Climate Change: Scaling Back Greenhouse Gas Emissions While Keeping the Lights On
If controlling global warming is a priority, then a transformation of how the world produced, transports and uses electricity will be required, IPCC report reveals. By David Biello , Scientific American Read the story here.
Indonesia Makes 2008 Guinness World Records As Fastest Forest Destroyer On The Planet
(source) Indonesia is destroying its forests faster than any other country in the world, at a rate of 51 square kilometers per day. The main reason for this? So they can plant oil palms to produce “green” biofuels for the west.
The Biofuel Illusion
I’ve always been opposed to the use of various crops for producing biofuels. While they sound good on the surface, when you look at them more closely it is easy to see that they entail more drawbacks than benefits. First of all these biofuels are not effective energy sources because they require nearly as much energy to produce as they end-up containing (same goes for hydrogen by the way). Various studies show that ethanol...
MIT-led panel backs ‘heat mining’ as key U.S. energy source
A comprehensive new MIT-led study of the potential for geothermal energy within the United States has found that mining the huge amounts of heat that reside as stored thermal energy in the Earth’s hard rock crust could supply a substantial portion of the electricity the United States will need in the future, probably at competitive prices and with minimal environmental impact. An 18-member panel led by MIT prepared the 400-plus page study, titled “The...