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What U.S. renewable-energy execs are asking is that government provide a regulatory environment that, at minimum, doesn't discriminate against them. Amory Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute and a longtime cheerleader for clean energy, points out that in 1996 the California legislature discontinued a policy that encouraged alternatives and efficiency by allowing utilities to make money even if they sold less power (a policy that was reinstituted in April). Policies that allow solar and wind power to be sold to the grid during peak production periods--now in place in more than 30 states--also...
...wide shaft tunnels 1,000 ft. down into the mountain to the Department of Energy's planned dumping site for thousands of tons of nuclear waste
...TABLE MOUNTAIN...
...YUCCA MOUNTAIN...
...view from the top of Yucca Mountain in Nevada sweeps down past hillsides tangled with creosote bush to the rocky, sun-baked desert floor, with Las Vegas about 90 miles to the southeast. The proximity to that city is a problem for Nevadans--and perhaps for the future of nuclear power in this country--because the Federal Government wants to bury inside Yucca Mountain the most toxic garbage that humankind has produced: 77,000 tons of highly radioactive waste generated by America's 103 nuclear power plants. A thousand feet below the mountain's peak, a tunneling machine called...