The second stage of a massive wind-generation project, larger than most nuclear power stations, was approved in the UK parliament this week. The world’s largest wind farm is in the North Sea at Hornsea and will power 2.5 million homes. This stage brings the capacity of the wind farm up to 3 gigawatts of electricity, Continue Reading →
Japanese car manufacturer Taisei, this week demonstrated an electric car without batteries running on an electrified road. The proof-of-concept car was developed with Toyohshi University and traveled only a hundred metres at 10 kilometres per hour on a specially prepared road. A spokesperson for Taisei Corp said that the production version will come with batteries Continue Reading →
The massive floods in Louisiana that killed five people and made 20,000 homeless last week contained as much water as generally flows out of the Mississippi in three years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the USA will this week declare the floods as a one in five hundred year event. This is the Continue Reading →
Israel’s Ben Gurion University, this week released a report showing that half the world’s population will face chronic water shortages in the next two decades. The report indicates that one billion people already deal with water shortages on a daily basis. Evidence of this trend was confirmed in independent reports this week from cities as Continue Reading →
An analysis of global energy prices and production released by Gail Tverberg of Our Finite World last week indicates that the Peak Oil crisis of 2007 has now translated into Peak Debt depriving governments of revenue and leading to high disatisfaction levels with governments. Her analysis shows that a number of factors have led to Continue Reading →
Data released last month by University of Exeter indicates that the climate is currently moving toward the poles at an average of 125km a decade and is accelerating. The implications are that Arctic ecosystems are disappearing with plants and animals being “simply pushed off the planet” Also, an equatorial death zone is opening up, with Continue Reading →