Full Coverage: Energy

20.02.2007 Kansainvälinen WWF on tyrmistynyt Suomen kielteisestä suhtautumisesta EU:n päästövähennyssuunnitelmiin. Euroopan komissio on esittänyt EU:n kasvihuonekaasujen vähentämistä 20 prosentilla vuoteen 2020 mennessä. WWF korostaa, ettei ilmastonmuutoksen hidastaminen vaaranna EU-maiden kilpailukykyä, päinvastoin. Samalla se ihmettelee, aikooko Suomi torpedoida oman maineensa modernina, ympäristönsuojelua ja korkeaa teknologiaa ajavana maana.

19.02.2007 Il parlamento iracheno sta per approvare la nuova legge che regolamenterà il settore energetico e aprirà le porte ai cosiddetti ‘investimenti’ delle grandi multinazionali del petrolio, tra cui l’italiana ENI. "La legge voluta dalla grandi multinazionali petrolifere, ENI inclusa, prevede l’introduzione dei cosiddetti PSA – Production Sharing Agreements – i quali consentiranno alle multinazionali enormi profitti a scapito dell’erario iracheno" - segnala 'Un ponte per...' che invita a firmare un petizione online al Ministro dell'Economia e Finanze Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa e al presidente dell'ENI Roberto Poli. La legge è stata ufficialmente presentata in Parlamento senza nessun tipo di consultazione, come era stato invece richiesto dalle rappresentanze sindacali. Nella sua visita a sopresa a Baghdad dei giorni scorsi, il Segretario di Stato americano, Condoleezza Rice ha ribadito la necessità di "affrettare il varo di una legge sul petrolio, in modo da garantire un’equa distribuzione dei proventi fra i vari settori della popolazione".

19.02.2007 from about my planet:
Combined heat and power - also known as 'cogeneration' and 'micro CHP' - is now becoming a viable way to both heat and power your home.

16.02.2007 from Treehugger:
The new cold cathode bulbs offer several big advantages.

15.02.2007 from Green Options:
A new technology that could make large-scale geothermal energy widely available. It could supply all US electricity demand.

14.02.2007 The action to collect signatures for the petition requiring from the Government to provide the same treatment to the citizens reserved for the Aluminium Corporation expanded to Kotor and Niksic, and the citizens can now sign the petition online, at http://www.pravodaznam.info/peticija.htm, reports MANS.

14.02.2007 from timesunion:
'The British Guardian newspaper was almost gloating about the bad news in the IPCC climate report... Fortunately, there is a solution, one that is grippingly unoriginal, requires no special knowledge of economics and is easy for any country to implement.'

14.02.2007 from bean-sprouts blog:
'I got thinking about the ways Ed and I economised when we were students. A big part of it was being energy efficient whilst cooking, so I made a list of things we did,' says Melanie Rimmer.

13.02.2007 from ZDNet blogs:
The "Night Wind" project wants to store wind energy produced at night in refrigerated warehouses and to release this energy during daytime peak hours.

12.02.2007 from Celsias:
Given the great disparity of lifestyles globally, how would we ration fossil fuel? Where are we heading?

09.02.2007 La Revolución Energética, aplicada hoy con éxito en Cuba y Venezuela, llegará muy pronto también a Nicaragua, con el cambio gratuito de casi dos millones de bombillos incandescentes por otros de menor consumo en todos los hogares del país.

06.02.2007 from build desk:
Want to calculate your home's U value? Or work out how much insulation you need for a building project? This online calculator does it all and explains all you need to know about U values.

02.02.2007 Greenpeace campaigners dumped four tonnes of coal on the doorstep of the environment department this morning. They said that despite today's UN report that the world is on the verge of climate catastrophe, the Prime Minister was ushering in a new generation of coal-fired power stations that will still be pumping out greenhouse gases in 50 years' time.

02.02.2007 from solarsaddle blog:
Are Green tariffs 'like the availability of "diet" foods - which make little difference to people's waistlines because all they do is make them feel virtuous and that somehow they have a "right" to indulge in a "sinful" Mars bar?'