Posts tagged Climate Change
California’s Central Valley may soon go nuclear
Dec 29th
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The Fresno Nuclear Energy Group and Areva have signed a letter of intent to build nuclear reactors in California’s Central Valley. Areva is proposing to build its EPR reactor somewhere in Fresno County, possibly beginning construction in 2017. If this nuclear push in the golden state is successful, it will set a strong precedent [...]
Your guide to the two newest proposals
Dec 28th
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In the madness leading up to and following the U.N. Climate Conference in Copenhagen two weeks ago, many have lost track of the climate change legislation working its way through Congress in the U.S. The last many heard of it, the controversial Kerry-Boxer bill was bound up in committee, poised for almost certain doom. Since [...]
Deadlock persists as bigwigs fly in for climate summit’s last days
Dec 16th
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After a week and a half of back-and-forth negotiations, presentations and protests, the next three days will be the most critical for the COP15 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen. But even as top leaders fly in to hammer out a deal, the chances of producing an effective treaty to reduce greenhouse gas [...]
GreenBeat: Al Gore says Smart Grid part of ‘the single largest solution’ to climate change
Nov 20th
Nobel Prize winner and former vice president Al Gore gave a wide-ranging, passionate talk at VentureBeat’s GreenBeat 2009 conference yesterday in San Mateo about combating global warming. We already liveblogged Gore’s talk, but for folks who don’t want to read the blow-by-blow description, here’s a summary.
Perhaps the most significant point: That energy efficiency is “the [...]
GreenBeat: Live-blogging Nobel Prize winner Al Gore
Nov 20th
Straight from GreenBeat 2009, we bring you former vice president and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore. I’ll be live-blogging this session — so it won’t be perfect or word-for-word, but it will be fast! We’ll pull out the gems as soon as we can.
Laura Ipsen, Cisco System’s smart grid guru is introducing Al Gore right [...]
