EPA report on greenhouse gas emissions data from large facilities

Greenhouse gases are the primary driver of climate change, which can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, poor or elderly; increases in ground-level ozone pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses; as well as other threats to the health and welfare. [1]

According to the greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions data published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the energy related businesses are the main producer of greenhouse gas emission. The agency writes:

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart a star of yesterday, an old man

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, 72 is the former chairman of the energy and mining giants Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-American, and a current board member of Saudi Aramco and Accenture. [1]

He was a managing director of Shell in 1995 when the the Brent Spar platform sank and the execution of Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa took place. [2]

The shame of the Doha Climate Conference 2012

The USA, Japan and other countries but not the Arab world are to be blamed for the failure of the Climate Conference in Doha on November 2012
The news from Qatar are as expected. No decision are made and Climate depletion will go on. All delegates, however, are contented because their job will continue as usual. Not the Arab world is to be blamed for the fail of the Conference, still less Saudi Arabia. The delegates and the politicians at home are those who must be ashamed.

British company will build the largest solar power plant of Africa in Ghana

Blue Energy, controlled by Investmentfonds Stadium Group, says it will build a $400m 155MW solar photovoltaic (PV) plant. It will be fully operational by October 2015. The Nzema near the village of Aiwiaso in western Ghana will install 630,000 PV modules increasing the country's electricity capacity by 6%. [1]

Germany is doing well after shut down of 8 nuclear power plants, says study

After the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan, in March 2011, the German government ordered 8 nuclear power plants to shut down. The remaining 9 plants will closed by 2022, or earlier. Operational safety and  the absence of safe repositories for nuclear waste cleared the way to the nuclear phase-out.
Fears that  Germany might become a net importer of electricity proofed to be unfounded. [1]

Elon Musk, the prototype of the ugly American

The whole scientific society is concerned about the future of humanity. Desertification goes on in Africa. Storms and floods devastate other regions. Hunger and distress destroy any hope of a normal life in other parts.

In the meantime the USA, the most powerful military nation, is backing Elon Musk as a symbol figure of the megalomania of a nation living at the expenses of humanity.

South Korean nuclear power plants closed because of substandard reactor components

The Nationaal reports that two power plants in South Korea were close and three others are under investigation regarding safety concerns. Eight companies supplying parts to Kepco had forged 60 certificates to cover 7,682 substandard reactor components since 2003. [1]

Kepco, the Korea Electric Power Corporation is the main contractor for four reactors at the UAE's Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, which is expected to be completed by 2017.

One Billio Euro to Shut Down Nuclear Power Plant

The nuclear power plant in Brunsbüttel, Germany, will be demolished. Its owner, the energy giant Vattenfall requested the permission at the ministry of energy  in Kiel. Vattenfall expects that the permission will take four years to be granted. The demolition will take another 10 to 15 years. The complete shut down will cost between 500 million to 1 billion Euro.

Price dictates German Energy Revolution

Conventional power plants grind coal into dust, which is then blown into a boiler. The German electricity company added a silo to the system and may now power down to 10 per cent of its maximum output and run on a low level, if necessary.  Without a silo conventional power plants can go no lower than 35 percent of maximum output. [1]

Germany and Great Britain are leading the energy of the 21th century, followed by Japan and France

Germany was the first to shut down nuclear power plants and change to renewable alternatives to fossil. The German Chancelor Mrs Merkel decided Germany to quit nuclear energy as a reaction to the disaster of Fukushima. Meanwhile wind energy and photovoltaic are supplying the majority of the electricity needed.

The infrastructure and the technology of transferring the electricity to where it is  needed is now being developed. Hydrogen technology, as a mean to store energy is already being used.

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