Wisconsin’s 556-megawatt Kewaunee Nuclear Power Station, located 27 miles southeast of Green Bay, permanently shut down yesterday after its owner, Dominion Resources, Inc., was unable to find a buyer for the 39-year old facility.
According to Dominion, the decision was purely economic; Kewaunee could no longer sell its electricity...
May
08
Chances are that in the next few days, the concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere will exceed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in about 4 million years.
Recently, Mauna Loa Observatory on the big island of Hawaii has been regularly recording daily CO2 levels above 399 ppm, with several hours already exc...
May
06
A powerful, 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southeastern Iran today at 3:44 p.m. local time (10:44 UTC), about 31 miles (50 km) from the Pakistani border, and 121 miles (195 km) SE of the city of Zahedan.
With the quake centered in a sparsely populated region of mountains, deserts and small villages, the extent of damage remains la...
Apr
16
© London Array Limited
The first phase of the London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, became fully operational on April 6, and is expected to produce enough renewable electricity to power nearly half a million homes a year while reducing CO2 emissions by more than 900,000 tons each year.
The London Array is located i...
Apr
11
How often after a Big Energy disaster do we come to learn that the parties to blame were previously cited — sometimes more than once — for the same type of safety violation(s) that caused the latest incident?
Whether it’s a coal mine collapse, a ruptured pipeline, or a leaking oil well, what first appears to be an ...
Apr
08
