‘Baseload’ power planned for Australia, in huge solar energy plant
Cobra Energy Eyes $1 Billion Solar Power Plant For Australia – Ecofriend, Mar 19 2010, Eco Factor: Massive solar power plant designed to generate 250MW of energy.Cobra Energy has unveiled plans to develop a massive $1 billion solar power plant in Australia that will be able to generate up to 250MW of renewable electric power. Continue reading
China aiming to be world leader in renewable energy
China – A Powerhouse in Renewable Energy, Renewable Energy World, March 21, 2010, “China missed the first industrial revolution, missed the computer revolution, and the biology revolution – they want to be a leader in the green revolution.” And indeed, China is now the third largest producer in the wind power market and one of the fastest-growing in domestic wind installations. For the fourth consecutive year, China has more than doubled its wind installations.
And offshore wind, a technology with a great deal of sex appeal, is yet another story. China installed its first major offshore wind farm near Shanghai and is 9th in the world as far as total offshore capacity……..China is also the world leader in PV manufacturing and production –
150 German towns unite against nuclear power
150 German towns want nuclear power ended, de.indymedia.org, Diet Simon, 17 March 2010Themen: Atom Weltweit ÖkologieLocal power utilities in Germany have formed an anti-nuclear power alliance saying that planned longer running times for nukes are endangering their plans to invest billions in climate-friendly green energies… Continue reading
France’s nuclear industry – not safe, not clean
(This site contains an informative video on France’s radioactive pollution. In French and Italian)
The safe French nuclear is a Government joke. Try and put the words France “nuclear accidents” into Google. You get about 28,000 results. Nuclear accidents in France are no longer news.
(France and Italy) Nuclear dwarves, Beppe Grillo’s Blog 17 March 2010, “…….If the nuclear “picciotto” {rank and file mafioso} in Italy is Berlusconi, its instigator is Sarkozy. The greatest pusher of nuclear power stations in the world. And thus it is with joy that I read the news of the electoral collapse of the “Transalpine Carlànano”. One dwarf attracts another…. Sarkozy could lose in the whole of France at the second round…. Continue reading
Gambling Central Australia’s future, with nuclear wastes
A major omission in Dr Switkowski’s comments concerns what effects over thousands of years that leaking and leeching radioactive waste might have upon Australia’s precious subterranean aquifers. For a nation as reliant as we are on underground water, that represents a massive gamble to say the very least.
NUCLEAR UNDER TONES?, Larry Buttrose, 15 March, 2010, “…Dr Switkowski continues: “Eventually spent fuel is transported to a national repository, a well-engineered deep hole in the ground, probably in central Australia.” Continue reading
ANSTO Partnering with French Nuclear Agency
Is it not odd t
hat the nuclear powers that be, are going ahead with new nuclear reactor projects, that are not only untested, but, it is openly admitted, for which there is no nuclear waste solution.!
Generation IV reactor systems are also being developed which will require new nuclear waste solutions.
Ansto bolsters research collaboration, World Nuclear News, 15 March 2010 .The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has widened its nuclear research cooperation with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as signing an agreement with an Australian university to conduct research into the storage of radioactive waste. Continue reading
Exploitation of impoverished Niger, by foreign uranium miners, including Australia
Uranium Major Niger Urged to Review Contracts, ABC News, NIAMEY (Reuters) 14 March 2010, – The new junta ruling in Niger, one of the world’s biggest uranium producers, should review and possibly renegotiate dozens of resource exploitation contracts, civil rights groups said on Saturday. Continue reading
Australia’s young doctors ignorant about ionising radiation
Medical students unaware of radiation hazard, IBTHealth -15 Mar, 2010, Over half of medical students and junior doctors underestimate the amounts of radiation involved in regularly ordered scans with 25 per cent wrongly accept that magnetic resonance imaging emits radiation. Continue reading
Nuclear, Fossil Fuel, people stack Australia’s New Renewable Energy Centre
Members of the interim board for the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy include:
• Graeme Hunt (Chair) – formerly in charge of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam expansion;
• Prof Mary O’Kane – former Vice Chancellor of Adelaide University;
• John Ryan – awarded the public service medal for his work on the PM’s Task Force into Development of Uranium Mining and Nuclear Energy in Australia;
• Emma Stein – has served on the boards of energy, oil and gas utilities;
• Dr John Wright – CSIRO Energy Transformed;
• Other members without clear relevant expertise in renewable energy development.
Centre for Renewable Energy welcome, but Greens amendments would have improved it | Greens MPs
Australia’s Renewable Energy Centre designed to fail
“You could almost say (the centre) was designed to fail.”
Greens slam new renewable energy body, Sydney Morning Herald, March 10, 2010 The Australian Greens have slammed a new body designed to develop renewable energy in Australia.Greens’ senator Christine Milne told parliament the Australian Centre for Renewable Energy was not independent, transparent or adequately qualified to carry out its duties Continue reading
Australia could reduce greenhouse gas without nuclear power
Nuclear does not have the answers we need, Sydney Morning Herald, SCOTT LUDLAM, March 10, 2010 -“…….Dr Hansen argues that energy efficiency and renewable energy sources are our first-line weapons in the battle against climate change. No arguments there. In the Australian context, we have a growing body of scientific research mapping out sustainable energy scenarios that would allow us to keep the lights on while also sharply reducing greenhouse emissions. Continue reading
Review: Nuclear waste dumping, nuclear’s costs and safety
Australia: Others join Maralinga veterans’ court case. Mounting opposition to NT nuclear waste dump, while both major parties push for it. Movement for sustainable energy becoming nationally organised
International: Questions in U.S. Congress about financial risks of Obama’s nukes policy, as States become anxious over costs and safety. Pro nukes enthuise over “clean”, “renewable” nuclear energy Safety risks raised over UK’s planned French nuclear reactors, while France mounts push to sell nuke reactors to 3rd World. Practicality and popularity of renewable energy continues to grow.
Australian organisations unite to lead new climate, energy, campaign
The Transition Decade: New Campaign Aims to Reshape Australia’s Climate Politics, T10 Starts with Community-Wide Engagement, SolveClimate.com, by Leigh Ewbank – Mar 7th, 2010, In Australia, several environmental groups have banded together to encourage a new approach to climate action. Continue reading
Open your eyes, Australia, on nuke dumping on Aboriginal land
Australian aboriginals to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land, Open Your Eyes News 4 March 2010 First you steal their land; then you wipe out 90% of their population, mainly through diseases; then you steal their children; then you use their land for nuclear bomb testing; then you count them as “flora & forna” in censuses until 1967; and then you dump the world’s nuclear waste on the desert land that you recently and reluctantly gave back.
Open Your Eyes News » Australian aboriginals to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land
Australia needs job-rich renewable energy, not nuclear power
If Australia aimed to build a renewable energy sector that represented 5 per cent of the global market by 2030 we could realise some 500,000 jobs in our renewable energy industry and finally take advantage of our advanced research base.
Responsibly addressing the urgency of climate change cannot afford to be delayed or misled by nuclear industry hype.
Nuclear energy: money can’t buy love, ABC, david Noonan, 3 March 2010, The truth is investment in nuclear energy means massive capital costs and very low employment benefits…. Continue reading
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