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Some say oil and gas exploration is essential as a source of jobs and revenue for Alaska Native communities, but activists argue it is simply exploitation. 
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Brazil is in the midst of a hydropower construction boom that is inundating large areas of rainforest and driving indigenous people from their lands — all while failing to fully develop the country’s vast potential for solar and wind energy.
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Unable to overcome fierce opposition from the oil industry and resistance from some Democrats , Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders announced Wednesday that they will remove a major portion of an ambitious proposal to combat climate change.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Avery disappoint turn of events. Please note this was only to halve (not eliminate) gasoline use.
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Finding more sources of renewable energy will be critical to battle climate change. In northern Europe, they’re harnessing the ocean winds offshore. Some in Massachusetts are looking to replicate that with some help from across the Atlantic.
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Offshore wind power facilities are becoming more common but a California effort faces hurdles.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
While the points made about engineering challenges of deepwater, anti-wind activists, etc. are true, we are leaving out the massive challenge that is permitting in the waters off California. Many tidal projects off the California coast have all been killed by permitting. Hence we have tidal projects going in off of Oregon and Baja California, but not here (even though these are designed in the halls and computers of California firms).
Our soon to be shuttered offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel are one potential source of help in this deepwater environment. To be sure, these are enough of a platform, but they could be parts/nodes of a wider array of ocean-based energy production.
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Tidal energy gets a boost from the insurance giant Prudential. The company of CEO, John Strangfeld invests £1 billion in Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay Project.
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An agreement on paying for the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power plant near San Clemente needs to be more favorable to consumers, state regulators said Friday.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
When we calculate the direct costs (leaving aside the issues related to waste internment and multi-millenium storage of highly radioactive substances) of nuclear power, decommissioning must be in the equation. I have found such costs rarely are accounted for. When they are the estimates are typically rarely close to the actual amounts we have seen (e.g. >$4 billion for this SONGS example).
PIRatE Lab's curator insight,
September 6, 2014 10:48 AM
When we calculate the direct costs (leaving aside the issues related to waste internment and multi-millenium storage of highly radioactive substances) of nuclear power, decommissioning must be in the equation. I have found such costs rarely are accounted for. When they are the estimates are typically rarely close to the actual amounts we have seen (e.g. >$4 billion for this SONGS example). |
