Opinion:
¶ “Cutting our carbon would help UK business” Renewable energy is not just good for ruffling the perfectly coiffed feathers of the likes of Donald Trump; the sector is also good for UK industry, consumers and economy. [Financial Times]
¶ “Australia’s wind energy debate spinning out of control” Anti-wind farm activists are blaming turbines for everything from herpes to doubling power prices. [The Guardian]
Economics:
¶ Over the past 5 years, solar power has been growing at 63.2% per year, a pace that could easily continue until 2020. For the past 15 years, nuclear power has not grown, but electric output has grown at 3.4%, so nuclear is losing market share. [Business Insider]
Science and Technology:
¶ The Solar Impulse, the solar-powered airplane that can fly at night, is on the next leg of its journey, flying from Dallas-Fort Worth to St. Louis. The 20-hour flight from Texas started around 4:00 AM on Monday. [NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth]
World:
¶ Municipal leaders in the Ontario region that is home to one of the world’s largest nuclear power plants are facing allegations they discussed proposed storage facilities for radioactive waste in secret because they feared damaging their electoral fortunes. [Regina Leader-Post]
¶ Anti-nuclear organizations turned out in force in major protests in Tokyo on June 2, looking to have an impact on the Upper House election in July and protest the planned restart of nuclear reactors. Organizers say there were 85,000 demonstrators. [Asahi Shimbun]
US:
¶ A solar-powered robotic boat will be sailing from Rhode Island to Spain. It is a product of the creative minds of college students, who somehow could not all the project to drop as they went on in life. [The Providence Journal]
¶ Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Georgia Power over the monopoly’s reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status. [Worcester Telegram]
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