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| NStar asks to keep wind power costs from public |  |
| NStar wants to avoid public disclosure of the price it`s seeking to pay for electricity from three New England wind power projects. |
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| Planning commission works on Town Plan alternative energy siting | |
| The Waitsfield Planning Commission is working its way through draft language to update the Town Plan`s treatment of how alternative energy installations, including wind turbines, should be sited. |
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| DynGlobal Prepares to Deploy Its Solar Powered Water Purification to Japan | |
| DynGlobal, a US based company dedicated to advanced technology, renewable energy, and solar power solutions announced today that it is supporting the victims of the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan by providing portable and point of use solar powered water purification systems. |
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| Datapipe Purchases 100 Percent Renewable Energy | |
| Datapipe has increased its green power purchases 6-fold from last year to nearly 56 million kWh annually, the equivalent of 100 percent of its total purchased electricity use for its San Jose and New Jersey data centers. |
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| Heroism Is Part of a Nuclear Worker`s Job | |
| Hugh Pickens writes "In 1988, Michael Friedlander was a newly minted shift technical adviser at a nuclear power plant near the Gulf Coast when Hurricane Gilbert, a Category 5 storm, was bearing down on the plant. They received word that all workers should leave except for critical plant personnel, and there was never a question: `my team and I would stay, regardless of what happened.` `The situation facing the 50 workers left at Fukushima is a nuclear operator`s worst nightmare,` writes Friedlander. `But the knowledge that a nuclear crisis could occur, and that we might be the only people standing in the way of a meltdown, defines every aspect of an operator`s life.` The field attracts a very particular kind of person, says Friedlander, and the typical employee is more like a cross between a jet pilot and a firefighter: highly trained to keep a technically complex system running, but also prepared to be the first and usually only line of defense in an emergency. `We will likely hear numerous stories of heroism over the next several days, of plant operators struggling to keep water flowing into the reactors, breathing hard against their respirators under the dim rays of a handheld flashlight in the cold, dark recesses of a critically damaged nuclear plant, knowing that at any moment another hydrogen explosion could occur.`"
The severity rating of the crisis has now been raised from 4 to 5 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, and Japan`s Prime Minister called the situation "very grave."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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| MESSENGER Enters Orbit Around Mercury | |
| krswan writes "From the NASA press release: `At 9:10 p.m. EDT, engineers in the MESSENGER Mission Operations Center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., received the anticipated radiometric signals confirming nominal burn shutdown and successful insertion of the MESSENGER probe into orbit around the planet Mercury.` If you don`t know much about this little spacecraft, check out its website. Designed with a completely passive cooling system, it will stay at 600C on the sun side, but room temperature behind the sunshade. During its 6-year journey it used solar panels as sails, relying on the solar wind instead of thrusters to adjust its trajectory. Over the next year it will build a high-res map of Mercury, and maybe determine if there is really ice hiding within polar craters (PDF)."
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| Renewable energy firm to create 50 jobs in Kildare | |
| A new manufacturing facility for wind turbines has announced plans to create at least 50 highly-skilled jobs over the next three years. |
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| Bills Clear The Way For More Development Of Clean, Sustainable Geothermal Resources | |
| Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter signed four bills into law today that are aimed at improving the process for leasing Idaho`s precious and sustainable geothermal resources, especially those found beneath State-managed land in Idaho. |
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| Renewable Energy Standards: Savvy or Silly? | |
| State renewable energy standards have gained momentum over the past decade with 29 states having put in place various types of standard mandates and five more having implemented voluntary standards (34 total). Now the federal government is looking to get into the game with a bi-partisan bill (S. 3813) aiming to set a minimum national standard. Renewable energy standards certainly feel good, but do they really provide the best path for achieving their goals? The existing renewable energy standards are savvy in finding a way to reduce fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions while simultaneously being politically palatable to a broad array of people. But they are a bit silly in their formulation. |
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| Natural Power, RES and FEUP join forces to develop next generation VENTOS CFD Model | |
| Natural Power, RES and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal have signed a significant research and development joint venture focused on developing the next generation VENTOS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model for wind energy applications. The announcement was made during this year`s EWEA conference in Brussels. |
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| German Solar Energy May Get a Boost from Japan`s Nuclear Disaster | |
| The nuclear power plant crisis unfolding in Japan after the massive earthquake has already caused political fallout in Germany and could usher in a new era of renewable energy in Europe`s largest economy. |
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