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Energy Voices Fighting climate change with nuclear energy
Nuclear power is currently the only carbon-free energy source that can provide base load electricity, Stepp writes, a characteristic crucial to reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and fighting climate change. Next-generation nuclear energy offers even more productive strategies for reducing carbon emissions.
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On Cairo streets, generators' hum sends loud message about Morsi's failings
Egyptians are furious with President Morsi, who they blame for widespread electricity cuts that are further disrupting businesses, shops, and restaurants at a time of economic hardship.
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Energy Voices How 'green' is your power?
Many states and their destination cities have reasons to re-think how they are powered, Warren writes. The least costly energy fuel source may have other costs imposed upon their citizens, economy, and environmental assets. A recent report breaks down the US electricity mix.
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Israel accelerates cybersecurity know-how as early as 10th grade
Israel is strengthening cybersecurity recruitment and cooperation between hi-tech, academia, and the military as threats rise.
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Energy Voices Is nuclear fusion power now possible?
The quest for nuclear fusion power is well known, Daly writes, having been around since the dawn of the nuclear age, but the physics have precluded significant research. Until now.
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Change Agent Copenhagen makes an ambitious push to be carbon neutral by 2025
More bicycle lanes, biomass generation, public transit, cooling buildings with seawater – it's all intended to make Copenhagen the world’s first carbon-neutral capital by 2025.
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Change Agent How Ontario is putting an end to coal-burning power plants
Ontario is on the verge of becoming the first industrial region in North America to eliminate all coal-fired electrical generation. Here’s how Canada’s most populous province did it – and what the US can learn from it.
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Deal at Czech nuclear power plant fuels US-Russia economic rivalry
Companies with ties to the US and Russia are battling for a contract to expand a Czech nuclear power plant, which analysts say may be the gateway to kickstarting other nuclear power projects in Eastern Europe.
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Millionaire plans to send couple to Mars in 2018. Is that realistic? (+video)
The Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by space tourist and multimillionaire Dennis Tito, announces its plan to send a married couple on a flyby mission to the Red Planet beginning in 2018.
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Exclusive: Cyberattack leaves natural gas pipelines vulnerable to sabotage
A government report says a cyberattack against 23 natural gas pipeline operators stole crucial information that could compromise security. Experts strongly suspect China's military.
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Energy Voices Energy sector cyberattacks jumped in 2012. Were utilities prepared?
The number of cyberattacks on the computer systems of power grid and gas pipeline companies rose in 2012, a federal report shows, as cyberspies zeroed in on the energy sector.
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Secret US cybersecurity program to protect power grid confirmed
The National Security Agency is spearheading a program, dubbed Perfect Citizen, to develop technology to protect the power grid from cyberattack. The project worries privacy rights groups.
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EPA head Lisa Jackson will resign
Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, says she will step down at the beginning of President Obama's second term. Her four-year tenure includes some victories, especially car fuel-efficiency standards, but was marked with disappointments over global warming and coal ash controls.
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Energy Voices Edison Mission Energy files for bankruptcy. Is natural gas to blame?
Edison International's Edison Mission Energy filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday. Edison Mission's financial woes reflect the obstacles coal faces in a market increasingly dominated by cheap natural gas and a shift towards renewables.
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Change Agent Would the lights go out if superstorm Sandy hit the Netherlands? Nope.
The US can learn from the modern, disaster-resistant electric grid in the Netherlands.
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Change Agent Curacao looks at using ocean water for power
Curacao, an island nation in the southern Caribbean, may use cold seawater to generate power, taking an innovative step toward clean, local energy.
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Lessons from Sandy: how one community in storm's path kept lights on
President Obama toured Sandy-hit areas Thursday, even as some communities still wait for power. Princeton University avoided power outages by using a 'microgrid' – and the idea is spreading.
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Officials keep close eye on nuclear power plants as Sandy's winds whip
Though no nuclear power plants have been taken offline so far, officials along the east coast are overseeing plants carefully as hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey.
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Energy Voices Will tiny nanowires double the power of solar cells?
A Massachusetts-based startup hopes their method of using tiny nanowires will dramatically increase the energy produced by solar cells, according to OilPrice.com.
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Australia, India to begin uranium talks
Australia eyes eventually exporting uranium to India for its nuclear plants. With 40 percent of the world's uranium reserves and strict rules on exports, Australia expects the talks to last a year or more.
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Energy Voices The clunky, lagging transition to renewable energy
History suggests that it can take up to 50 years to replace an existing energy infrastructure, and we don't have that long, Cobb writes.
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China cyberspies suspected in new caper: what has experts worried
A China-based cyberespionage gang is suspected in the hacking of a major industrial control system firm in Canada. Experts warn the theft could facilitate creation of a cyberweapon.
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Scientists manage to boil water without bubbles
A new type of nanomaterial exploits the Leidenfrost effect, in which droplets of water can skate across hot a hot surface without boiling away, to boil water without creating explosive bubbles.
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Energy Voices In coal-reliant West, a shift to natural gas, renewables
For the first time in 30 years, carbon-dioxide emissions from coal-fired plants are dropping, due to the slow retirement of old coal plants. But the West is still more reliant on coal for electricity than states in the East.
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Power restored in India after world's worst blackout, cause unclear
India was up and running Wednesday after major electrical grid collapse caused the world's two worst power blackouts.
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