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Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 27, 2016 -
If current trends continue, domestic and industrial water demand would
more than double by the year 2050, and continue to increase after that,
according to a new study published in the journal Geoscientific Model
Development. The study introduces the first scenarios from the IIASA
Water Futures and Solutions (WFaS) initiative, a multi-year
interdisciplinary research project focusing on global wa ...
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In
the past year, the international community has made positive strides in
regard to humanity’s two most pressing existential threats: nuclear
weapons and climate change. In July 2015, at the end of nearly two years
of negotiations, six world powers and Iran reached a historic agreement
that limits the Iranian nuclear program and aims to prevent Tehran from
developing nuclear weaponry. And in December of last year, nearly 200
countries agreed in Paris to a process by which they will attempt to
reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide, aiming to keep the increase in
world temperature well below 2.0 degrees Celsius above the
pre-industrial level.
But
the diplomatic successes on Iran and in Paris have been offset, at
least, by negative events in the nuclear and climate arenas. The members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Science
and Security Board find the world situation to be highly threatening to
humanity—so threatening that the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock must remain at three minutes to midnight, the closest it has been to catastrophe since the early days of above-ground hydrogen bomb testing.North Korea’s nuclear test, vastly expensive nuclear modernization programs in the United States and around the globe, the world’s collective inability to effectively deal with nuclear waste, and the drumbeat of continued climate change remain very serious challenges. And as the Board writes in the 2016 Doomsday Clock Statement, “When we call these dangers existential, that is exactly what we mean: They threaten the very existence of civilization…” The video recording of the Doomsday Clock international news conference will be posted on our website within a few hours of the conclusion of the program. Board members Thomas Pickering, Lawrence Krauss, Sivan Kartha, and Sharon Squassoni were joined via a live, two-way link from Stanford University by California Governor Jerry Brown, former Secretary of State George Shultz, and former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry. As the signatories to 2016 Doomsday Clock Statement make clear, the Earth remains perilously and inexcusably close to metaphorical midnight. You can read the full report on the Bulletin’s website at www.thebulletin.org. It is still 3 minutes to midnight. | |||
According to preliminary
numbers from GTM Research, 59 gigawatts of solar PV were installed
globally in 2015, a 34 percent increase over 2014’s total.
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Less than two years after
Vermont almost quadrupled the amount of renewable electricity that
homeowners and small businesses can sell to their utilities, regulators
are looking for the best way to go even further to encourage renewable
energy production while ensuring costs stay low for everyone.
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| A Statement From U.S. Secretary Of Energy Ernest Moniz On New Leadership At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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By Dr. Ernest Moniz | Secretary of Energy, Monday, January 25, 2016 5:00 PM
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“The
Department of Energy welcomes Dr. Michael Witherell as the new director
of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Mike’s background
includes key academic, research, and management roles as a leading
particle physicist teaching at some of America’s finest universities,
former director of DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and
Presidential Chair in Physics at UC Santa… Keep reading →http://breakingenergy.com/2016/01/25/a-statement-from-u-s-secretary-of-energy-ernest-moniz-on-new-leadership-at-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory/?utm_campaign=Breaking+Energy+Daily+Digest&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=25599209&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--f2SO83bzrM2eB6H8XjdTExkmPtzk4fMPFGikb_Mjkqupw-KlNgg-7UsZtrbkS9ZGbO1NyCBj_m76nosQaypnOCUyPmw&_hsmi=25599209
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GE announced two deals that
will help meet the growing high-efficiency power needs in northern and
central China for two steam turbine generator units respectively at
Taihang Power Plant and Dabieshan Power Plant phase II project.
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