When Chris Huhne the British secretary of state of energy and climate change wrote in a letter to the Financial Times newspaper that nuclear will not have public subsidy because in contrast to the “infant industries of renewablesâ€, it is...
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Dispatch from Brazil: the energy issue
Brazil takes a lot of pride in the fact that 48% of its energy matrix is renewable, mostly thanks to hydropower, the source of 80% of the electricity consumed in the country, and ethanol, which has been powering vehicles in the country since the...
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Renewable energy consumption grows in Europe
According to a report issued by Eurostat, in 2008, energy from renewable sources was estimated to have contributed 10.3% of gross final energy consumption in the 27 member countries of the European Union, compared with 9.7% in 2007 and 8.8% in 2006...
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Happy World Environment Day
05th of June is the day we celebrate the environment. The date marked the beginning of the first UN conference on human environment, which took place between 05 and 16 June 1972. Here at Energy Refuge we celebrate the environmental all year round...
I recenty discovered a blog called Paleofuture which specializes in retro-futurism, visions of a perfect, high-tech future that never really was (or did not materialize as expected). Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some...
