German energy shift faces headwinds
Source: News 24
Pulheim :: Germany | updated 2013-05-19 07:46:56 -0700 | green-news
Tense engineers have their eyes peeled on complex colour-coded diagrams on a wall-sized screen that makes their control room look like the inside of a spaceship. They work with a power system that would have seemed equally futuristic not so...
Joe Oliver: The end of fossil fuels would be an economic and social catastrophe
Source: The Globe & Mail
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 14:36:44 -0700 | green-news
EDT After taking a hiatus during the 2012 U.S. election campaign, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver headed south of the border in March to Chicago and Houston, and in April to Washington where he met the new interior secretary, Sally...
Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
Source: Inter Press Service
Bonn :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 15:34:44 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles Recently, China's First National Census of Water discovered they'd lost more than 28,000 rivers compared to just 20 years ago. Most experts blame the loss on massive overuse and engineering projects to shift water from one region to...
Car boss asks Merkel to rethink CO2 pledge
Source: The Local
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 06:45:18 -0700 | green-news
www.thelocal.de/money/20130521-49829.htm
Energy Storage: Continuing to Evolve
Source: Forbes
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2013-05-15 08:28:50 -0700 | green-news
Like many emerging technologies that look to go mainstream in the long-run, storage is starting to gain more visibility, but still being utilized mostly in high value and niche applications. Solar power used to be that way twenty years ago,...
Study looks at storing wind energy in Mid-Columbia
Source: Tri-City Herald
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2013-05-21 07:19:07 -0700 | green-news
Sites north of Boardman in Benton County and about 10 miles north of Selah in the Yakima Canyon could store enough wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each month, according to the study, conducted by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
At trade talks, U.S., E.U. ready for fight on genetically modified crops
Source: Washington Post
Springe :: Germany | updated 2013-05-17 19:11:27 -0700 | green-news
A regional train of the Deutsche Bahn drives past a blooming rapeseed field near Springe, Germany. Many European farmers say that genetically modified crops have uncertain environmental consequences. Germany Many Europeans see American farming and its reliance on genetically modified...
Tipton high on Keystone Pipeline
Source: The Durango Herald
Berlin :: Germany | updated 2013-05-16 23:38:34 -0700 | green-news
Tipton W itnesses at a House hearing Thursday on the Keystone XL Pipeline emphasized the pipeline's safety compared with other methods of transporting fossil fuels...Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, led the House Committee on Small Business hearing, asking Congress to support...
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