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Tidal power is a huge energetic resource that we are hardly using so far. Here is a UK project that promises to get serious about power from the sea.

Poetry in Motion: Power Plant Will Use Ocean Tides to Power 155K Homes

This planned power plant in Wales may look like the Guggenheim Museum but its benefits far outweigh the beauty: it will use the rise and fall of ocean tides to generate enough renewable electricity to power 155,000 homes for 120 years.

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2015/10/222015/10/21

Eagle: Renewables Create Jobs, Heal Planet

03 Economy, 03 Environmental Degradation, 05 Energy, 11 Society

300 Million Talons... — 300 Million Talons…

Renewables Can Create Jobs and Heal the Planet: Report

“The Clean Energy Future represents a pathway away from climate destruction…. Should we let greed and inertia prevent us from taking it?'

The U.S. can reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050, while creating half a million jobs a year and lowering energy costs for consumers, simply by limiting use of fossil fuels and allowing the renewables sector continue to grow at its current pace, according to a new report published this week.

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2015/10/122015/10/10

Yoda: Indonesia’s True Cost of Fire

03 Economy

Corruption costs….

$47b? Indonesia counts costs of haze

Besides financial setback, its reputation and relations with neighbours are also at risk

Phi Beta Iota: This is what happens when both governments and corporations lose sight of true cost economics and holistic analytics.

2015/10/122015/10/10

Berto Jongman: Freevolt – Free Ambient Energy

05 Energy

Harvest Free RF Energy From The Air With Freevolt

…it works by harvesting ambient RF energy from high-power broadcast (DTV) and mobile network (Wifi, GSM, LTE) signals.

Electricity from the air – Drayson's big idea

The technology was demonstrated in the lecture theatre at the Royal Institution, where Michael Faraday worked on electromagnetism in the 19th Century.

2015/10/112015/10/11

Findhorn: Solar & Wind Leap Past Fossil Fuel

05 Energy

Solar and Wind Just Passed Another Big Turning Point

“Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It’s the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.

“But that’s less interesting than what just happened in the U.S.

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2015/10/102015/10/09

Berto Jongman: IMF – Debt Crisis Looms

03 Economy

$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF

A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report

“Three percent of global output is at stake”.

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2015/10/082015/10/06

Berto Jongman: Monsanto Doubles Cancer Death Rates in Argentina

01 Agriculture, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime

Cancer Death Rates Now Doubled In Argentina’s GMO Agribusiness Areas

Data linking GMOs and pesticides to human health ailments continues to emerge, as a new report put together by the Ministry of Health in Cordoba, Argentina has found that increased levels of crop spraying in Argentina’s most extensively farmed areas has resulted in a large increase of cancer rates for those that live in the vicinity. According to the report, deaths from cancerous tumors have as much as doubled in areas where genetically modified (GM) crops are grown and agro-chemicals are used. That’s not really surprising, given the fact that numerous studies have linked them to cancer, and other detrimental health ailments.