A lot of the environmental costs of solar depend on how the panels and batteries are produced, transported and disposed of… and most importantly how the energy is stored. As renewable energy grows, storage will become a greater problem. In general, we would be better off producing energy like the sun (fusion) than trying to […]
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The Costs of Solar Energy
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Tagged batteries, climate change, evaporation, fusion, global warming, Nuclear Energy, nuclear fusion, solar panels, storage, The Economics of Turning Water into Electricity, toxic waste, turn water into electricity, water
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Heading Toward Hottest Year On Record
The The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a report showing “Global temperature reaches record high in September”. Global Highlights The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for September 2014 was the highest on record for September, at 0.72°C (1.30°F) above the 20th century average of 15.0°C (59.0°F). The global land […]
Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion offers the most hope at rectifying human induced climate change. Nuclear fusion is how the sun works. In a press release, Lockheed Martin states a breakthrough: The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Skunk Works® team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR) that can be developed and deployed in as little as […]
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Climate Change and the Presidental Action Plan
The President’s Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution in America Reducing Carbon Pollution from Power Plants Power plants are the largest major source of emissions in the U.S., together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas pollution. PROGRESS: In September 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposed carbon pollution standards for new power […]
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Tagged Clean Energy Infrastructure, climate change, coal power plants, global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, The President's Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution in America
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Climate Disruption
The United States of America released a report on global warming and has named the problem climate disruption. The report +confirms that climate change is not a distant threat — it’s affecting us now.” Climate disruption is “expected to become increasingly disruptive across the nation throughout this century and beyond,” the National Climate Assessment […]
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Tax Pollution
One of the only taxes that makes sense is a pollution tax. A progressive income tax is perhaps the worst type of taxation. Why would you want to tax people for being productive… then, tax them higher the more productive they are? These countries currently have taxes on carbon emissions: Australia, India, South Korea, Japan, […]
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Tagged cap-and-trade, carbon credits, carbon emissions, climate change, emissions trading, global warming, greenhouse gases, offset progams, pollution reduction systems, pollution tax, stop global warming
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Disappearing Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Arctic Sea Ice
The U.N.’s panel on global warming warns: Over the last two decades, the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass, glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and Arctic sea ice and Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease in extent (high confidence). • The average rate of ice loss 8 […]
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Why Doesn’t Global Warming Feel Warmer?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The report states that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” Then, why doesn’t it feel that much hotter? Because most of the rise in temperature is in the water: Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy stored in the climate […]
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U.N.: Humans Induce Climate Change
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that “we cannot accept a rising tide that floats only some boats and leaves many to drown.” Ban Ki-moon has been taking a strong stance on global warming. His latest efforts include getting world leaders to admit humans are impacting climate change. Most people would think this is a given. […]
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Tagged adapting, climate change, diseases, effects on health, extremely likely, global warming, health, heat, human activity, human induced, illness, impact of humans, weather, welleness
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Nuclear Energy Laser Uranium Enrichment
Many scientists have come to the conclusion that nuclear energy is one of the alternative energy solutions for climate change. A new process, laser enrichment, is a major advancement in the efficiency of nuclear energy production. The United State Nuclear Regulatory Commission said, “General Electric (GE) currently plans to use the Australian laser enrichment technology […]
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