Sepp Hasslberger: Mega Hybrid Solar Projects Ready to Challenge Baseload Fossil Fuels

05 Energy
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Thermal solar with storage capacity combined with solar photovoltaics is set to challenge the fossil fuels base load electricity production…

Mega hybrid solar projects ready to take on baseload fossil fuels

2015 is shaping up to be a big year for the development of huge, hybrid solar power plants – the mega solar complexes that combine solar PV with solar towers and storage, and which are tipped to compete, soon, with baseload fossil fuels on both price and energy supply.

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Sepp Hasslberger: Nuclear Waste Piped Into Atlantic Ocean

03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Not only is radioactive water from Fukushima poisoning the Pacific, they are doing it in the Atlantic ocean as well…

Plutonium being pumped into Atlantic ocean through miles of underwater pipes — Nuclear waste left lying on beach…

The dumping of nuclear waste in the sea was banned worldwide in 1993, yet the nuclear industry has come up with other ways. They no longer dump the barrels at sea; they build kilometers of underwater pipes through which the radioactive effluent now flows freely into the sea. One of these pipes is situated in Normandy [near] the French reprocessing plant in La Hague… The advantage for the nuclear industry? No more bad press… disposal via waste pipes remains hidden from the public eye, quite literally.

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Mini-Me: 120,000 Antelope Drop Dead

03 Environmental Degradation
Who?  Mini-Me?
Who? Mini-Me?

Huh?

Why have 121,000 antelopes in Kazakhstan suddenly dropped dead?

Just three weeks ago, there were thought to be about 300,000 saiga roaming the Kazakh steppes. Now, nearly 121,000 carcasses have been discovered. 

An estimated 300,000 saiga roamed across the Kazakh steppes on May 11, when the first dead antelope was discovered. By May 27, nearly 121,000 carcasses had been found in three huge areas of their usual habitat, Agriculture Ministry officials said.

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