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

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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
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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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NEW: Open Source Everything Category @ P2P Foundation – The Revolution Begins

#OSE Open Source Everything
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P2P Foundation

Category:Open Source Everything has been created.  Here is the Intent statement:

By agreement with the P2P Foundation, those of us coming together to foster improved cross-fertilization across the various opens will use the P2P Foundation Wiki to create pages and links so that a culture of Open Cooperativism is fostered in this neutral and nurturing environment.

Visit Category:Open Source Everything. The public is encouraged to contribute substance to this Category at the P2P Foundation wiki.

 

Event: 4-5 June NYC Personal Democracy Forum

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Micah Sifry

This is the top event organized personally by Micah Sifry, whose book, The Big Disconnect: Why the Internet Hasn't Fixed Politics (Yet) is among the handful of “must read” books we recommend this year.

The theme for this year's Personal Democracy Forum, our twelfth since 2004, is “Imagine All The People: The Future of Civic Tech.” We want to take you into a future where everyone is participating, a future that we build together using technology appropriately, powering solutions to shared civic problems. The future is what we make it; at this year's PDF we'll gather to hear from the people who are making civic tech that genuinely matters, and fighting to ensure that everyone gets to benefit. READ MORE

New York City, 4-5 June 2015