Installed EU wind capacity has reached the 100 gigawatt mark - the equivalent of power generated from 39 nuclear plants or a train of coal stretching from Buenos Aires to Brussels - but financial risk threatens growth, industry body EWEA said.
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Kuching, Malaysia (AFP) May 22, 2013 - About 300 Borneo tribespeople staged a protest at a world hydroelectric industry meeting in Malaysia on Wednesday to denounce dams they say are destroying forests and native ways. Delete the scoop?
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Wind only sets the market price if it is the most expensive resource on the system, and that almost never happens because wind has a zero fuel cost. If wind is setting the price, everything else in the area has been turned off. Delete the scoop?
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 22, 2013 - A suite of disquieting global phenomena have given rise to the Anthropocene, a term coined for a new geologic epoch characterized by humanity's growing dominance of the Earth's environment and a p...
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Mankind gives little thought on how our activities affect global enviromental systems, and how those systems enable and sustain our lives. Mankind in general has has had a malignant effect on these natural systems which is accellerating with population growth and usustainable harvesting and use of natural resources, such as water. The way things are going now, by the next century the earth's capacity to sustain human life at any sort of comfortable level at anywhere near current population levels will be greatly diminshed. I believe in the US for the general population it could be like life was during the last World War, with extreme resource conservation measures and rationing. But, unlike WW !! when scarcities ended after the war and you had an accelleration of economic growth along with a population boom, a growing economy will further strain resources and already badly damageged ecological systems. It is likely that reduced population will have the most effect on improving peoples lives as it will result in less strains on available resources and ecosystems. I understand this is rather a bleak picture, but humans seem to be more of a reactive animal with little heed of foresight, so I don't see much change occuring in our resource use or economic beliefs. We are likely not to change our current habits until we are forced to. Comments are welcome.
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