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Mar. 22nd, 2008
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Not exactly what the songsmiths had in mind for that tune. "Why Can't We Be Friends?" is an alternative. That they meet at Emirates stadium once again reminds us that sarcasm is dead. As we already know from earlier readings, France has problems with it's own inadequate (for the "renaissance") nuclear labor force.
Sarkozy, Brown to Unveil Nuclear Cooperation Plan - The Times (India) - 22 Mar 08
"Britain and France will announce a deal to build new nuclear power stations and export the technology worldwide during President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit next week, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants in January and wants to take advantage of French expertise to help build them, the paper said.
The announcement is due to be made at a summit involving Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Arsenal football club's Emirates stadium in north London on Thursday. Brown hopes that the venture will help Britain to develop a skilled labour force to work in the power stations which would then work alongside French workers to sell power stations abroad in the next 15 years, the paper said."
Original Guardian (UK) article, Britain and France to Take Nuclear Power to the World.
"Brown hopes the partnership will create a skilled British labour force who would then work in partnership with France to sell nuclear power stations to other countries over the next 15 years."
Sarkozy, Brown to Unveil Nuclear Cooperation Plan - The Times (India) - 22 Mar 08
"Britain and France will announce a deal to build new nuclear power stations and export the technology worldwide during President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit next week, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants in January and wants to take advantage of French expertise to help build them, the paper said.
The announcement is due to be made at a summit involving Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Arsenal football club's Emirates stadium in north London on Thursday. Brown hopes that the venture will help Britain to develop a skilled labour force to work in the power stations which would then work alongside French workers to sell power stations abroad in the next 15 years, the paper said."
Original Guardian (UK) article, Britain and France to Take Nuclear Power to the World.
"Brown hopes the partnership will create a skilled British labour force who would then work in partnership with France to sell nuclear power stations to other countries over the next 15 years."
Not exactly what the songsmiths had in mind for that tune. "Why Can't We Be Friends?" is an alternative. That they meet at Emirates stadium once again reminds us that sarcasm is dead. As we already know from earlier readings, France has problems with it's own inadequate (for the "renaissance") nuclear labor force.
Sarkozy, Brown to Unveil Nuclear Cooperation Plan - The Times (India) - 22 Mar 08
"Britain and France will announce a deal to build new nuclear power stations and export the technology worldwide during President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit next week, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants in January and wants to take advantage of French expertise to help build them, the paper said.
The announcement is due to be made at a summit involving Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Arsenal football club's Emirates stadium in north London on Thursday. Brown hopes that the venture will help Britain to develop a skilled labour force to work in the power stations which would then work alongside French workers to sell power stations abroad in the next 15 years, the paper said."
Original Guardian (UK) article, Britain and France to Take Nuclear Power to the World.
"Brown hopes the partnership will create a skilled British labour force who would then work in partnership with France to sell nuclear power stations to other countries over the next 15 years."
Sarkozy, Brown to Unveil Nuclear Cooperation Plan - The Times (India) - 22 Mar 08
"Britain and France will announce a deal to build new nuclear power stations and export the technology worldwide during President Nicolas Sarkozy's state visit next week, the Guardian reported on Saturday. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants in January and wants to take advantage of French expertise to help build them, the paper said.
The announcement is due to be made at a summit involving Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Arsenal football club's Emirates stadium in north London on Thursday. Brown hopes that the venture will help Britain to develop a skilled labour force to work in the power stations which would then work alongside French workers to sell power stations abroad in the next 15 years, the paper said."
Original Guardian (UK) article, Britain and France to Take Nuclear Power to the World.
"Brown hopes the partnership will create a skilled British labour force who would then work in partnership with France to sell nuclear power stations to other countries over the next 15 years."
What's Right With Kansas?
Mar. 22nd, 2008 08:12 amA bit of local good news.
Sebelius Vetoes Coal Plant Bill - Salina (KS) Journal - 21 Mar 08
"Gov. Kathleen Sebelius sought again Friday to extend an olive branch to Sunflower Electric after she vetoed a bill that would have let the company build two new coal-fired power plants. But Sunflower, a Hays-based electric generation and transmission cooperative, wasn't interested, instead urging lawmakers to override the veto."
"Sebelius posed her second compromise proposal to Sunflower, seeking to encourage the utility to add more wind power to their system, to pursue more energy efficiency and to build a smaller coal-fired generator. But Steve Miller, Sunflower's spokesman, said that wouldn't work because it was 'unbelievably' expensive.
Sebelius also established a task force of business executives, energy experts and scientists and named as its leader Cessna Aircraft Company's President Jack Pelton of Wichita."
Sebelius Vetoes Coal Plant Bill - Salina (KS) Journal - 21 Mar 08
"Gov. Kathleen Sebelius sought again Friday to extend an olive branch to Sunflower Electric after she vetoed a bill that would have let the company build two new coal-fired power plants. But Sunflower, a Hays-based electric generation and transmission cooperative, wasn't interested, instead urging lawmakers to override the veto."
"Sebelius posed her second compromise proposal to Sunflower, seeking to encourage the utility to add more wind power to their system, to pursue more energy efficiency and to build a smaller coal-fired generator. But Steve Miller, Sunflower's spokesman, said that wouldn't work because it was 'unbelievably' expensive.
Sebelius also established a task force of business executives, energy experts and scientists and named as its leader Cessna Aircraft Company's President Jack Pelton of Wichita."
What's Right With Kansas?
Mar. 22nd, 2008 08:12 amA bit of local good news.
Sebelius Vetoes Coal Plant Bill - Salina (KS) Journal - 21 Mar 08
"Gov. Kathleen Sebelius sought again Friday to extend an olive branch to Sunflower Electric after she vetoed a bill that would have let the company build two new coal-fired power plants. But Sunflower, a Hays-based electric generation and transmission cooperative, wasn't interested, instead urging lawmakers to override the veto."
"Sebelius posed her second compromise proposal to Sunflower, seeking to encourage the utility to add more wind power to their system, to pursue more energy efficiency and to build a smaller coal-fired generator. But Steve Miller, Sunflower's spokesman, said that wouldn't work because it was 'unbelievably' expensive.
Sebelius also established a task force of business executives, energy experts and scientists and named as its leader Cessna Aircraft Company's President Jack Pelton of Wichita."
Sebelius Vetoes Coal Plant Bill - Salina (KS) Journal - 21 Mar 08
"Gov. Kathleen Sebelius sought again Friday to extend an olive branch to Sunflower Electric after she vetoed a bill that would have let the company build two new coal-fired power plants. But Sunflower, a Hays-based electric generation and transmission cooperative, wasn't interested, instead urging lawmakers to override the veto."
"Sebelius posed her second compromise proposal to Sunflower, seeking to encourage the utility to add more wind power to their system, to pursue more energy efficiency and to build a smaller coal-fired generator. But Steve Miller, Sunflower's spokesman, said that wouldn't work because it was 'unbelievably' expensive.
Sebelius also established a task force of business executives, energy experts and scientists and named as its leader Cessna Aircraft Company's President Jack Pelton of Wichita."
While the UK sucks up to France for a new partnership in nuclear proliferation, Germany continues to poach the apparently undesirable global solar industry. Hopefully Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with the vision and money for renewables, like Google, can pull us out of the weeds on this one.
Lessons From Germany's Energy Renaissance - Globe and Mail (CA) - 22 Mar 08
"Enter Germany. The ever-so-generous Germans tracked him down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse - free money, and lots of it - as long as Arise promised to build a PV factory on German soil. The German love-fest even came with flowers for Mr. MacLellan's wife, Cathy.
Today, Arise's first factory is about a month away from completion in Bischofswerda, a pretty eastern German town about 35 kilometres east of Dresden, in the state of Saxony. Covering two storeys and 100,000 square feet, the sleek grey metal building will have some 150 employees and produce enough PV cells each year to power the equivalent of 60,000 houses. The value of the annual output, based on today's prices, will be $375-million, or more than three times the company's current value on the Toronto Stock Exchange."
"No PV cells are made in Canada. The Canadian solar industry, lured by money and markets, is jumping across the Atlantic and landing in Germany and a few other European countries with generous incentives."
"There's more to it than energy security. Germany is both latching onto, and propelling, an industrial trend. It wants to do to renewables what it did to the car industry; that is, create a jobs and export juggernaut. 'We are at the beginning of the third industrial revolution,' said Mr. Machnig, referring to the growth potential for renewable energy."
"PER CENT OF GERMAN ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY RENEWABLES
2000: 3%
2020*: 20%
2050*: 50%
BREAKDOWN OF WORLD'S PHOTOVOLTAIC CAPACITY
Germany 56%
U.S.: 8%
Japan: 17%
Rest of the world: 19%"
Lessons From Germany's Energy Renaissance - Globe and Mail (CA) - 22 Mar 08
"Enter Germany. The ever-so-generous Germans tracked him down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse - free money, and lots of it - as long as Arise promised to build a PV factory on German soil. The German love-fest even came with flowers for Mr. MacLellan's wife, Cathy.
Today, Arise's first factory is about a month away from completion in Bischofswerda, a pretty eastern German town about 35 kilometres east of Dresden, in the state of Saxony. Covering two storeys and 100,000 square feet, the sleek grey metal building will have some 150 employees and produce enough PV cells each year to power the equivalent of 60,000 houses. The value of the annual output, based on today's prices, will be $375-million, or more than three times the company's current value on the Toronto Stock Exchange."
"No PV cells are made in Canada. The Canadian solar industry, lured by money and markets, is jumping across the Atlantic and landing in Germany and a few other European countries with generous incentives."
"There's more to it than energy security. Germany is both latching onto, and propelling, an industrial trend. It wants to do to renewables what it did to the car industry; that is, create a jobs and export juggernaut. 'We are at the beginning of the third industrial revolution,' said Mr. Machnig, referring to the growth potential for renewable energy."
"PER CENT OF GERMAN ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY RENEWABLES
2000: 3%
2020*: 20%
2050*: 50%
BREAKDOWN OF WORLD'S PHOTOVOLTAIC CAPACITY
Germany 56%
U.S.: 8%
Japan: 17%
Rest of the world: 19%"
While the UK sucks up to France for a new partnership in nuclear proliferation, Germany continues to poach the apparently undesirable global solar industry. Hopefully Silicon Valley entrepreneurs with the vision and money for renewables, like Google, can pull us out of the weeds on this one.
Lessons From Germany's Energy Renaissance - Globe and Mail (CA) - 22 Mar 08
"Enter Germany. The ever-so-generous Germans tracked him down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse - free money, and lots of it - as long as Arise promised to build a PV factory on German soil. The German love-fest even came with flowers for Mr. MacLellan's wife, Cathy.
Today, Arise's first factory is about a month away from completion in Bischofswerda, a pretty eastern German town about 35 kilometres east of Dresden, in the state of Saxony. Covering two storeys and 100,000 square feet, the sleek grey metal building will have some 150 employees and produce enough PV cells each year to power the equivalent of 60,000 houses. The value of the annual output, based on today's prices, will be $375-million, or more than three times the company's current value on the Toronto Stock Exchange."
"No PV cells are made in Canada. The Canadian solar industry, lured by money and markets, is jumping across the Atlantic and landing in Germany and a few other European countries with generous incentives."
"There's more to it than energy security. Germany is both latching onto, and propelling, an industrial trend. It wants to do to renewables what it did to the car industry; that is, create a jobs and export juggernaut. 'We are at the beginning of the third industrial revolution,' said Mr. Machnig, referring to the growth potential for renewable energy."
"PER CENT OF GERMAN ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY RENEWABLES
2000: 3%
2020*: 20%
2050*: 50%
BREAKDOWN OF WORLD'S PHOTOVOLTAIC CAPACITY
Germany 56%
U.S.: 8%
Japan: 17%
Rest of the world: 19%"
Lessons From Germany's Energy Renaissance - Globe and Mail (CA) - 22 Mar 08
"Enter Germany. The ever-so-generous Germans tracked him down and made him an offer he couldn't refuse - free money, and lots of it - as long as Arise promised to build a PV factory on German soil. The German love-fest even came with flowers for Mr. MacLellan's wife, Cathy.
Today, Arise's first factory is about a month away from completion in Bischofswerda, a pretty eastern German town about 35 kilometres east of Dresden, in the state of Saxony. Covering two storeys and 100,000 square feet, the sleek grey metal building will have some 150 employees and produce enough PV cells each year to power the equivalent of 60,000 houses. The value of the annual output, based on today's prices, will be $375-million, or more than three times the company's current value on the Toronto Stock Exchange."
"No PV cells are made in Canada. The Canadian solar industry, lured by money and markets, is jumping across the Atlantic and landing in Germany and a few other European countries with generous incentives."
"There's more to it than energy security. Germany is both latching onto, and propelling, an industrial trend. It wants to do to renewables what it did to the car industry; that is, create a jobs and export juggernaut. 'We are at the beginning of the third industrial revolution,' said Mr. Machnig, referring to the growth potential for renewable energy."
"PER CENT OF GERMAN ELECTRICITY GENERATED BY RENEWABLES
2000: 3%
2020*: 20%
2050*: 50%
BREAKDOWN OF WORLD'S PHOTOVOLTAIC CAPACITY
Germany 56%
U.S.: 8%
Japan: 17%
Rest of the world: 19%"