NewEnergyNews: GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK (12-12)/

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YESTERDAY

THINGS-TO-THINK-ABOUT WEDNESDAY, August 23:

  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And The New Energy Boom
  • TTTA Wednesday-ORIGINAL REPORTING: The IRA And the EV Revolution
  • THE DAY BEFORE

  • Weekend Video: Coming Ocean Current Collapse Could Up Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Impacts Of The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current Collapse
  • Weekend Video: More Facts On The AMOC
  • THE DAY BEFORE THE DAY BEFORE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 15-16:

  • Weekend Video: The Truth About China And The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: Florida Insurance At The Climate Crisis Storm’s Eye
  • Weekend Video: The 9-1-1 On Rooftop Solar
  • THE DAY BEFORE THAT

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 8-9:

  • Weekend Video: Bill Nye Science Guy On The Climate Crisis
  • Weekend Video: The Changes Causing The Crisis
  • Weekend Video: A “Massive Global Solar Boom” Now
  • THE LAST DAY UP HERE

    WEEKEND VIDEOS, July 1-2:

  • The Global New Energy Boom Accelerates
  • Ukraine Faces The Climate Crisis While Fighting To Survive
  • Texas Heat And Politics Of Denial
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    WEEKEND VIDEOS, June 17-18

  • Fixing The Power System
  • The Energy Storage Solution
  • New Energy Equity With Community Solar
  • Weekend Video: The Way Wind Can Help Win Wars
  • Weekend Video: New Support For Hydropower
  • Some details about NewEnergyNews and the man behind the curtain: Herman K. Trabish, Agua Dulce, CA., Doctor with my hands, Writer with my head, Student of New Energy and Human Experience with my heart

    email: herman@NewEnergyNews.net

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  • WEEKEND VIDEOS, August 24-26:
  • Happy One-Year Birthday, Inflation Reduction Act
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 1
  • The Virtual Power Plant Boom, Part 2

    Friday, December 12, 2008

    GOOD STORIES THERE WASN’T TIME TO GET TO THIS WEEK (12-12)

    A NewEnergyNews Friday feature.

    MORE ON OBAMA'S SEC ENERGY APPOINTEE
    Energy secretary pick argues for new fuel sources
    H. Josef Hebert, December 10, 2008 (AP via Yahoo News)

    “Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for energy secretary, has been a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy, arguing that a shift away from fossil fuels is essential to combat global warming…a Chinese-American who currently is director of the Lawrence Berkeley “National Laboratory in California, has in recent years campaigned to bring together a cross-section of scientific disciplines to find ways to counter climate change.

    “If action is not taken now to stop global warming, it may be too late, he argues…One of the country's most renowned scientists, Chu in 1997 shared the Nobel Prize in physics with two other scientists for his research into ways to cool and trap atoms using laser light…More recently, Chu's scientific interests have centered on energy and finding ways to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources such as biofuels from plants and converting energy from the sun into a fuel. He has spoken frequently about the need to link the physical and biological sciences with engineering to rally independent-thinking scientists in the fight against climate change.

    “Chu frequently has used the bully pulpit in a campaign against global warming and the need for alternative energy and greater energy efficiency. During a lecture last summer in Washington he bemoaned the fact that people too often prefer to spend $1,000 on a granite kitchen counter top instead of improving their home's energy efficiency.

    “A few years ago he was one of six Nobel Prize-winning scientists who expressed their concern about global warming by sitting against and climbing into a massive tree on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley for a photograph that appeared in a special environmental issue of Vanity Fair magazine.

    “Despite his broad scientific credentials, Chu has little experience inside Washington or in what occupies much of the Energy Department's business — maintaining the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons and weapons research. Nor has he had much involvement in nuclear energy. He has shown little support for building a nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, one of the major issues facing the department. Obama also has expressed dislike for the Yucca project…”



    EU MOVES AHEAD ON 20% NEW ENERGY, TRIPLE 20
    EU agrees renewable energy to provide a fifth of needs by 2020
    December 9, 2008 (AFP)

    “EU governments and the European Parliament agreed Tuesday on a bill obliging Europe to use renewable sources for 20 percent of its energy needs by 2020…The goal, which will require major efforts from most member states, is part of a wider EU climate change package which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2020 and make 20 percent cuts in energy use…The deal will mean significant European investment in wind, wave, solar and, where possible geothermal power…The negotiators -- from the 27 member states, the EU commission and the European Parliament -- notably agreed on the use of biofuels, which the green lobby has criticised as "wrong-headed" due to the farming land which will be required…Each member states will be given national objectives…”


    GROUPS CALL FOR ACTION ON CAPE WIND
    Clean Energy and Environmental Groups Call for Immediate Action on Cape Wind; Meddling Seeks to Delay Release of Positive Environmental Report
    Michael Oko, December 11, 2008 (Natural Resources Defense Council)

    “Clean energy, environmental and public health groups call on the administration to move forward without delay on the Cape Wind project. These groups were outraged today by what appears to be further political meddling with the final approval for Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound…Opponents of the 130 turbine project are seeking to delay the delivery to the Minerals Management Service (MMS) of a positive technical study by the Coast Guard allowing for release of the project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The FEIS, expected to be released in January, is anticipated to conclude that the project’s environmental benefits would far outweigh its negative impacts…Last week, the Coast Guard reported on the findings of that study, indicating that Cape Wind would not pose a threat to navigation…Cape Wind opponents, however, are pushing Congress to block delivery of the Coast Guard report and delay the offshore wind project.”


    BIG MOVE ON SOLAR POWER PLANT
    BrightSource Energy Signs Contract With Siemens for Largest Ever Fully Solar-Powered Steam Turbine Generator; Turbine Generator to Be Operated at BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Power Complex
    December 9, 2008 (Centre Daily Times)

    “BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of large-scale solar thermal energy plants, has signed a contract with Siemens to purchase the steam turbine generator for BrightSource’s first 100MW plant at its Ivanpah Solar Power Complex in California’s Mojave Desert. The purchase marks another key step in BrightSource Energy’s path to construct the state’s first large-scale solar thermal power plant in nearly thirty years...The contract with Siemens is for the supply of a 123 MW fully solar-powered steam turbine generator. When completed, the turbine is expected to be the largest fully solar-powered steam turbine generator to date…The Siemens turbine is slated to be delivered in early 2011, and BrightSource expects this first phase of its Ivanpah Solar Power Complex to be operational and supplying solar energy to utilities in the fourth quarter of 2011…”

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