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Alex Parker

Small modular reactors: the day of nuclear 'plug and play'? - 1 views

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  • Alex Parker on 08 May 14
     
    US firm Babcock & Wilcox is developing a small modular reactor.
Alex Parker

Te Mihi Geothermal Power Station - Power Technology - 1 views

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  • Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14
     
    The 166MW Te Mihi geothermal power plant has been constructed by Contact Energy on the Wairakei geothermal steamfield in Taupo, New Zealand. Construction of the $750m plant was completed in May 2014. The Te Mihi project was part of a $750m programme to develop the Wairakei-Tauhara geothermal system.
Alex Parker

MIXKRET 5 [VIDEO] - Putzmeister Underground - Mining Technology - 1 views

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  • Alex Parker on 01 Jul 14
     
    Video by Putzmeister Underground: A brief overview of the MIXKREKT 5 underground mining machine from Putzmeister
Alex Parker

Claire Field: BP and Westminster in Scottish oil cover up? - 1 views

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shared by Alex Parker on 19 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 19 Sep 14
     
    What started as a low-profile trip by the PM to Shetland to announce a household energy policy and pat a pony has become an under the radar inspection of an oil field with the potential to tear apart the union. Are the UK government and BP in cahoots or is it just 'utter nonsense'?
Alex Parker

The top 10 biggest power companies of 2014 - 1 views

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  • Alex Parker on 08 Oct 14
     
    Five of the world's ten biggest power companies are based in Europe; the remaining five are all based in the United States. Power-technology.com profiles the world's ten biggest power companies of 2014 based on Forbes calculation of net market capitalisation, assets, sales and profit.
Benno Hansen

Do nations go to war over water? : Article : Nature - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 25 Mar 09 - Cached
  • There are 263 cross-boundary waterways in the world. Between 1948 and 1999, cooperation over water, including the signing of treaties, far outweighed conflict over water and violent conflict in particular. Of 1,831 instances of interactions over international freshwater resources tallied over that time period (including everything from unofficial verbal exchanges to economic agreements or military action), 67% were cooperative, only 28% were conflictive, and the remaining 5% were neutral or insignificant. In those five decades, there were no formal declarations of war over water2.
  • it is foolish for Israel, a water-short country, to grow and then export products such as oranges and avocados, which require a lot of water to cultivate
  • water 'embedded' in traded products could be important in explaining the absence of conflict over water
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  • as poor countries diversify their economies, they turn away from agriculture and create wealth from industries that use less water. As a country becomes richer, it may require more water overall to sustain its booming population, but it can afford to import food to make up the shortfall
  • Israel ran out of water in the 1950s: it has not since then produced enough water to meet all of its needs, including food production. Jordan has been in the same situation since the 1960s; Egypt since the 1970s. Although it is true that these countries have fought wars with each other, they have not fought over water. Instead they all import grain.
  • Palestinian and Israeli water professionals interact on a Joint Water Committee, established by the Oslo-II Accords in 1995. It is not an equal partnership: Israel has de facto veto power on the committee.
  • Inequitable access to water resources is a result of the broader conflict and power dynamics: it does not itself cause war.
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      Benno Hansen on 25 Mar 09
       
      From causation to hen/egg
  • although India and Pakistan have fought three wars and frequently find themselves in eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation, the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, arbitrated by the World Bank, has more than once helped to defuse tensions over water
  • predictions of armed conflict come from the media and from popular, non-peer-reviewed work
  • I offered to revise its thesis, but my publishers pointed out that predicting an absence of war over water would not sell.
  • most importantly, improve the conditions of trade for developing countries to strengthen their economies
Benno Hansen

How to adapt to climate change : Nature News - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 25 Feb 09 - Cached
  • They're also growing vegetables — rather than crops like wheat — on floating gardens. They use a bamboo frame and load it with water hyacinth, which rots and makes a bed for vegetables to grow. Then when the flood water rises, they can still harvest food.
Benno Hansen

Capitalism as a threat to the environment - The Irish Times - Sat, Aug 09, 2008 - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 14 Jul 09 - Cached
  • "Today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that threatens the planet,"
  • current obsession with GDP growth at all costs must be abandoned
  • a shift to much more participative and popular forms of democracy
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  • a shift to a post-consumer society is needed
  • "tackling climate change is the pro-growth strategy for the longer term"
Benno Hansen

Connie Hedegaard: Time Is Up - The Deadline Is Copenhagen - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 28 Nov 09 - Cached
  • We can choose to go down the road towards green prosperity and a more sustainable future. Or we can choose a pathway to stalemate and do nothing about climate change leaving an enormous bill for our kids and grand-kids to pay.
  • According to the International Energy Agency every year lost to inaction will cost us 500 billion dollars.
  • The deal should involve binding medium and long-term greenhouse gas reduction goals for developed countries
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  • put the big developing economies on a cleaner and greener path to prosperity
  • provide assistance for the vulnerable countries
  • how we can work together to disseminate and develop technology and knowledge
Benno Hansen

Off the Shelf - 'Green Gone Wrong' - Can Capitalism Save the Planet? - Review - NYTimes... - 0 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 06 Apr 10 - Cached
  • corporate America has led us into thinking that we can save the earth mainly by buying things
  • ‘lazy environmentalism,’ is geared toward the masses that aren’t willing to sacrifice,”
  • armchair activism actualizes itself most fully in the realm of consumer goods; through buying the right products we can usher our economic system into the environmental age.”
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  • many of the small organic producers who are expected to lead the reinvention of the food system can barely make ends meet
  • If there was ever a time to ponder the long-term consequences of our spending habits, it’s in the wake of the worst economic crisis in decades, which was fueled by rampant consumer borrowing.
Benno Hansen

Nobel Laureates Speak Out - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • The Stockholm Memorandum concludes that we have entered a new geological era: the Anthropocene
  • we are transgressing planetary boundaries that have kept civilization safe for the past 10,000 years.
attayaya yaya

Green Fuel - 1 views

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  • attayaya yaya on 24 Jun 11
     
    Salah satu upayanya adalah menciptakan berbagai kendaraan yang lebih bersifat ramah lingkungan yang menggunakan bahan bakar yang juga ramah lingkungan. Umumnya bahan bakar itu disebut Bahan Bakar Ramah Lingkungan atau Bahan Bakar Hijau atau Greener Fuels.
Benno Hansen

How the 1% Pillage the Environment | AlterNet - 1 views

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shared by Benno Hansen on 02 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • when there’s money to be made, both workers and the environment are expendable
  • If you are a CEO who skims millions of dollars off other people’s labor, it’s called a “bonus.”  If you are a flood victim who breaks into a sporting goods store to grab a lifejacket, it’s called looting.  If you lose your job and fall behind on your mortgage, you get evicted.  If you are a banker-broker who designed flawed mortgages that caused a million people to lose their homes, you get a second-home vacation-mansion near a golf course.
  • The 1% are willing to spend billions impeding democratic initiatives, which is why every so-called environmental issue is also about building a democratic culture.
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  • If you drag heavy fishnets across the ocean floor and pulverize an entire ecosystem, ending thousands of years of dynamic evolution and depriving future generations of a healthy ocean, it’s called free enterprise.  But if, like Tim DeChristopher, you disrupt an auction of public land to oil and gas companies, it’s called a crime and you get two years in jail.   
  • Tearing apart wildlife habitat to make a profit and doing the same at a workplace are just considered the price of doing business. Clearcutting a forest and clearcutting a labor force are two sides of the same coin. 
  • The desperate effort to grow the economy to solve our economic woes is what keeps Timothy Geithner at the helm of the Treasury and is what stalls the regulation of greenhouse gasses.  It’s why we are told we must sacrifice environmental quality for pipelines and why young men and women are sacrificed to protect access to oil, the lubricant for an acquisitive economic engine.
  • we have built an all-encompassing economic engine that requires unending growth.  A contraction of even a percent or two is a crisis, and yet we are embedded in ecosystems that are reaching or have reached their limits.
  • Like so much else these days, the crash, as it happens, will not be suffered in equal measure by all of us.  The one percenters will be atop the hill, while the 99% will be in the flood lands below swimming for their lives, clinging to debris, or drowning.
  • Degrading the planet’s operating systems to bolster the bottom line is foolish and reckless.  It hurts us all.  No less important, it’s unfair.  The 1% profit, while the rest of us cough and cope. After Occupy Wall Street, isn’t it time for Occupy Earth?
Alex Parker

Celebrating Surya - India's lofty solar ambitions - 1 views

www.power-technology.com/...-lofty-solar-ambitions-4269386

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shared by Alex Parker on 20 May 14 - No Cached
  • Alex Parker on 20 May 14
     
    In line with their ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, the Indian government has recently announced plans for what could become the world's most powerful solar plant.
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