Science and Technology:
¶ A small start-up company in California claims to have produced a design for solar PVs that makes the cost of electricity from solar less than those of coal and natural gas. [Triple Pundit]
World:
¶ The UK-Ireland agreement that Irish wind farms would provide power to the UK is seen to have exposed anti-renewable rhetoric in Scotland as a politically motivated scare tactic by those opposed to Scottish independence. [SNP]
¶ Windpower is now China’s third most important source of energy, surpassing nuclear. [EcoSeed]
¶ The referendum on nuclear power in Bulgaria had a majority voting in favor of nuclear power, but it failed anyway because voter turnout was too low to be legally binding. [Deutsche Welle]
¶ There are reports of a huge explosion at the Iranian enriching facility that has been such a matter of world concern of late. The government of Iran denies the reports. [Bahrain News Agency]
US:
¶ One byproduct of fracking in Pennsylvania is highly radioactive water. [Timesonline.com]
¶ J. Wayne Leonard is stepping down from his job at Entergy this week. [Rutland Herald]
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