Archive for ‘Energy’
Opposition Flares To Calvert Cliffs Reactor
October 11th, 2007
(Baltimore) A reactor could be added at Calver Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, but opposition to the plans are growing.
Popularity: 4%
Ethanol Fuel Offering Cheaper Alternative
October 10th, 2007
(Pittsburgh) A gas station in Monroeville is offering a sale on E-85 ethanol fuel this morning; KDKA’s
Popularity: 2%
Climate change may make Arctic energy resources easier to reach.
October 9th, 2007
Access to oil may be easier, but drilling through melting ice proves to be a challenge.
Popularity: 2%
Nuclear towers demolished
September 29th, 2007
Fifty years of British industrial history were reduced to rubble within a couple of minutes. Four 88-metre high cooling towers at Calder Hall, the world’s oldest industrial scale nuclear power station, were blown up with 192 kgs of explosive as part of the plant’s decommissioning.
Popularity: 2%
Power Plant Workers Caught Sleeping On The Job
September 27th, 2007
Baltimore workers were suppose to be protecting a nuclear facility, but some workers at a Pennsylvania Nuclear Power Plant are caught fast asleep on the job.
Popularity: 5%
China attempts to go green
September 27th, 2007
Solar energy is flourishing in China as it attempts to reduce the impact of industrialisation.
Popularity: 2%
New Technology Helps Schools Go Green
August 29th, 2007
Currently, there are more than 176 green colleges and universities, according to the U.S. Green Buildings Council, and the number continues to grow. Going green not only helps improve the air and water quality, it also conserves natural resources.
Popularity: 3%
Kazakh oilfield development halted
August 27th, 2007
The oilfield’s developers, AgipKCO consortium also includes Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp, Total, ConocoPhillips, Japan’s Inpex Holdings Inc and the Kazakh oil company KazMunaiGas.
Popularity: 2%
Going Green: Solar Panels
July 24th, 2007
Gerald Guiling designed solar panels for farmers in Kentucky.
Popularity: 3%
