TODD WOODY, Green in the New York Times, August 25, 2010 California regulators on Wednesday approved a license for the nation’s first large-scale solar thermal power plant in two decades. The licensing of the 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project after a two-and-a-half-year environmental review comes as several other big solar farms are set to receive [...]
Archive for August, 2010
California Approves First New U.S. Thermal Solar Plant
Posted in California, News, Solar Farm, Solar Thermal, US Energy Policy, U.S., Renewable Energy, Electricity Generation, California Energy Commission, Mohave Desert, tagged Beacon Solar Energy, California, California Energy Commission, Electricity Generation, Kern County, Mojave Desert, NextEra Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar Farm, Solar Thermal, U.S. on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
San Francisco Considers Harnessing Wave & Wind Energy
Posted in Bay Area, California, Electricity Generation, Federal Waters, Hydrokinetic Energy, Marine Energy, MMS, News, Northern California, Ocean Energy, Offshore Energy Plan, Offshore Leases, Offshore Wind Energy, Pacific Ocean, Renewable Energy, San Francisco, Solar Energy, U.S., US Energy Policy, Western Renewable Energy Zones, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Turbines, tagged Bay Area, California, Danielle Murray, Electricity Generation, Gavin Newson, Johanna Partin, Kheay Loke, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, MMS Leases, Ocean Beach, Renewable Energy, Ronald Yeung, San Francisco, Solar Energy, Treasure Island, U.S., UC Berkeley, US Energy Policy, Wave Energy, West Coast, Wind Energy, Wind Farms, Wind Turbines on August 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
JOHN UPTON, San Francisco Examiner, August 22, 2010 The view to the west from Ocean Beach could one day be cluttered with scores of spinning windmills, generating power. San Francisco under Mayor Gavin Newsom has long explored the possibility of tapping alternative energy sources, including tidal, wave, solar, geothermal and wind power. San Francisco is [...]
Coral Doctor Sounds the Alarm about More Acidic Seas
Posted in Climate Change, Climate Scientists, CO2, CO2 Emission, Coastal Protection, Coral Bleaching, Coral Death, Coral Sea Death, Global Warming, News, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Conservancy, Ocean Ecology, Ocean Warning, Peak Oil, tagged Acidic Seas, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, CO2 Emissions, Coral Acidification, Coral Seas, Global Warming, John Guinotte, Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Life Extinction, Ocean Acidity, Ocean Protection, Phytoplankton on August 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
SETH SHULMAN for Grist, part of the Guardian U.K., August 23, 2010 The ocean has been our savior. Besides generating about two thirds of the oxygen we breathe, oceangoing phytoplankton — those floating microscopic plants that form the base of the aquatic food chain — absorb about a third of all the carbon dioxide we pump [...]
Soaring Temps Cause Mass Coral Killing in Indonesia
Posted in Andaman Sea, Climate Change, Coral Bleaching, Coral Death, Coral Sea, Coral Sea Death, Coral Seas, Environmental Issues, Global Warming, Indonesia, News, Ocean Ecology, Ocean Temperature, Ocean Warming, tagged Aceh, Andaman Sea, Climate Change, Coral Bleaching, Coral Death, Global Warming, Indonesia, Malaysia, Ocean Temperature, Ocean Warming, Sri Lanka, Thailand on August 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
DAVID FOGARTY and NICK MACFIE, Reuters, August 17, 2010 A dramatic spike in ocean temperatures off Indonesia’s Aceh province has killed large areas of coral and scientists fear the event could be much larger than first thought and one of the worst in the region’s history. The coral bleaching — whitening due to heat driving [...]
