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Wind can supply more than one third of US energy demand by 2050. Renewables are surging in the US and the fastest growing is wind power. According to a Department of Energy (DoE) Wind Vision report, wind power currently supplies 4.5 percent of US energy by 2016 that will rise to 7 percent. Wind energy has declined in price by almost 60 percent in the last five years and the DoE report predicts that it will be "directly competitive" by 2025. The switch from coal to wind could help avoid 12.3 gigatonnes of emissions amounting to 400 billion in climate...

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Advances in nuclear fusion could prove to be a powerful source of energy with very few negative environmental consequences. In a historic scientific achievement, a nuclear fusion reaction has generated more energy than put into it. Nuclear fusion is the melding of atomic nuclei that happens inside stars. Employing the power of the stars could radically change our energy equation and expedite the demise of fossil fuels. Fusion power is the energy generated by nuclear fusion processes. In fusion reactions, two light atomic nuclei fuse to form a heavier nucleus (in contrast with fission power). In doing so they release...

In a bizarre turn of events, the tragic disaster in Fukushima Japan is contributing to the climate crisis. The anti-nuclear movement that arose after the meltdown of a Japanese reactor has forced a number of governments to phase out atomic energy. In response to the decommissioning of nuclear plants, many nations are turning to fossil fuels to meet their energy shortfalls. This is increasing carbon emissions and helping to lay the foundation for runaway climate change.    ___________________________________ The explosion of the Fukushima reactor in 2011 prompted many nations to abandon nuclear power and turn to fossil fuels to meet...

France will reduce its dependence on nuclear energy while decreasing its use of fossil fuels and slashing its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This is in stark contrast to nations like Japan, Germany, and Italy which are increasing fossil fuel use to make up for the decommissioning of nuclear plants.  France plans to ramp up wind and other renewable sources of energy to replace nuclear. When he was elected in 2012, French President François Hollande promised to reduce the country’s use of nuclear energy from 75 percent to 50 percent by 2025. This vision was reiterated in April, by the new...

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