Category Archives: water

The Sharvelle System

2010-8-31 – 1:13 pm

In arid regions there’s a financial motivation to conserve water. The Sharvelle System use much less water than conventional anaerobic digesters.

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137 Contaminated Coal Waste Sites in 34 States

2010-8-27 – 7:29 pm

The coal industry destroy the land, pollute the air and water, impoverish communities, and sicken tens of thousands of people a year.

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Beacon Solar Energy Project

2010-8-25 – 7:51 pm

Todd Woody reports on licensing of the nation’s first large-scale solar thermal power plant in two decades. Licensing of the 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project comes after a two-and-a-half-year environmental review. The author is now hopeful that several other big solar farms will receive approval from the California Energy Commission in the next month. The [...]

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The Electric Reliability Council of Texas

2010-8-18 – 11:07 pm

Just more turbines not turning, nothing to use here, citizen. Move along and you may want to turn up your air conditioning some more.

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Levels of toxins rising rapidly

2010-8-14 – 7:03 am

Syncrude’s tailings pond is the largest, by volume of construction material, in the world, visible from space, full of sand and “dead water”, water containing carcinogenic hydrocarbons and toxic trace metals such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

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Geothermal in Nevada

2010-8-1 – 9:39 pm

Utility-scale electric power technologies need to move away from using fresh water for cooling

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Putting the CAFO Out to Pasture

2010-7-17 – 8:27 pm

Got your Club for Growth Zombie Identification Guide handy?

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Honey, Does Fort Chipewyan Have a Chinese Restaurant?

2010-7-12 – 5:48 pm

In Fort Chipewyan, one hundred of the town’s 1,200 residents have died from rare cancers and auto-immune diseases since 2000.

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Corn Oil Up

2010-6-27 – 12:21 pm

It’s the BP way

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From Gulf Stream to Gasland

2010-6-26 – 2:21 pm

New business opportunities, nicely packaged proposals with the proper amount of environmental consciousness, for the greater greed, er, good.

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