Word: nuclearization
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...Gore's speech was less a step-by-step plan than a sweeping call to action. His path to a decarbonized electrical supply doesn't surprise: more investment in solar and wind, keeping nuclear in the mix, maximizing energy efficiency and implanting carbon capture and storage for existing fossil fuel plants, plus a shift to electric cars. But Gore's message was subtly different this time. The man who has in the past called climate change a "moral and spiritual challenge" sounded more pragmatic notes. While sounding the alarm on melting Arctic ice and strange weather, Gore also emphasized...
...years? If the earlier, personal solutions to global warming - drive a hybrid, put in better insulation - were far too little, Gore's goal seems far too much. Less than 28% of our power currently comes from carbon-free sources, and the vast majority of that is hydroelectric and nuclear. High-tech renewables account for less than 3%. Wind and solar are growing far faster than fossil fuels such as coal or natural gas, but considering that we don't even know if economical carbon capture and storage will ever be possible, it's hard to see how Gore's target...
Security breaches at nuclear power plants are never a laughing matter. But with oil prices at near-record levels and the rush on to find safe, clean sources of energy, news of leaks at two different French nuclear sites could not have come at a worse time. Concern over the incidents is rekindling questions about the safety of France's giant nuclear power grid and could complicate the country's quest to become the world's leading purveyor of nuclear technology...
...With the confidence vote looming, it's unlikely Congress politicians will be drawing the public's attention to Singh's unpopular nuclear deal. The vote is expected to be close. Singh plugged the hole in his coalition created by the withdrawal of the leftist parties by teaming up with the democratic socialist Samajwadi Party, whose 39 seats almost make up for votes lost to the left. (One Samajwadi Party leader, Amar Singh, is a pro-American industrialist who has a framed picture of the Brooklyn Bridge hanging in his office.) With about a dozen lawmakers undecided, the Prime Minister...
This war prevents us from tackling nearly every serious threat we face, from a resurgent al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to a hostile Iranian regime intent on possessing nuclear weapons to the spread of extremist ideology around the world...