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window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; Lithium-ion batteries still not ready to hit the road.
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As a reader pointed out, oil shale is in the news again:
Oil shale may finally have its moment
In a nutshell, ICP works like this: Shell drills 1,800-foot wells and into them inserts heating rods…
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Halloween Edition - to be updated following the release of the report
Yogi Berra once famously noted “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”
I will add a corollary to that,…
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Age: OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd has set an ambitious renewable energy target of 20 per cent by 2020 in a bid to hose down damaging fallout over Labor’s backflip on a climate change agreement. Despite the British Government last week signalling it would wind back its 20 per cent by 2020 target because it […]

Australian: THE uncomfortable facts about climate change have forced Labor to admit the inconvenient truth about its own position on global warming. If Labor wins office, Mr Rudd may find himself in the same position for which Labor has long criticised the Howard Government, refusing to ratify a post-Kyoto agreement because it does not include […]

Daily Telegraph: THE Kyoto accord on carbon emission reduction has been a salient feature of the Australian political debate for the past year. You couldn’t miss it. Sadly for them, nor could the two men put in charge of their party’s policy on the issue. Both Malcolm Turnbull and Peter Garrett have crashed […]

Agence France-Presse: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told a conference in Lisbon on Monday that he regretted Washington’s lack of engagement on global warming but insisted the US was not ignoring the issue. "Just because you don’t see Washington leading this issue, don’t be thinking that America is shirking its responsibilities," he said in […]

United Press International: Delegates from 136 countries, representing local governments, vowed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and use renewable and clean energy sources to combat climate change, at the second World Congress of the United Cities and Local Governments. Some 2,000 mayors, councilors, and other officials of local autonomies from around the world attended the […]

Edie: Nobel prize winner Al Gore, the Toyota Prius design team and entrepreneur Richard Branson are among those who make the influential list for their contributions to solving some of the biggest threats to the planet, such as climate change, pollution and species depletion. Former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev, naturalist David Attenborough […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: Japan’s greenhouse gas emissions fell 1.3 percent in the year ended in March partly due to a warm winter, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, but a rebound this year threatens to make Tokyo’s Kyoto goal still harder to reach. A Ministry of Environment official declined to comment, saying the government […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Reuters: A surge in investment in solar power is bringing down costs of the alternative energy source, but affordability problems still dog hopes for the 1.6 billion people worldwide without electricity. The sun supplies only a tiny fraction — less than one tenth of 1 percent — of mankind’s energy […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Eureka Street: Cutting waste is the fastest way to reduce carbon emissions and cope with other crises of climate change. Waste is about turning resources into non-usable rubbish without getting full value from them. Waste causes half our carbon emissions, and wastes resources and the human lives that produce them. […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Edie: Although the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) has only set caps for member states, other countries within the European Economic Area have chosen to run their own schemes in parallel. This week the European Commission has announced that its scheme will link with those of Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, […]

window.document.getElementById(’post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Edie: That is the sobering conclusion of a major new United Nations report prepared by almost 400 scientists. Global Environment Outlook: Environment for Development said that although political attention to environmental issues is increasing, this has not translated into significant process on climate change, loss of biodiversity and other problems […]