Archive for February, 2010
Posted on 2/27/2010 at 5:23:43 PM
Recently I have been taking a look at what I do to keep myself as eco-friendly as possible. This is a pretty difficult thing to do when you realise that what you do in the way of recycling and so on quickly pales into insignificance next to the huge amounts of waste produced as a [...]
Posted on 2/22/2010 at 1:15:40 PM
The US Government has affirmed their intention to re-invest in nuclear power generation with the announcement that $8 billion will be spent on 2 new reactors in Georgia. These will be the first reactors built in 30 years in the USA.
Coming at a time when the energy usage of the US and industrialising nations has [...]
Posted on 2/18/2010 at 5:24:57 PM
British Airways are involved in a new venture to build a waste processing plant in London, promising to buy all of the energy output for use as plane fuel.
The plant would be built by an American contractor and would convert up to 500,000 tonnes of waste matter, ranging from sewage waste to landfill candidate material, [...]
Posted on 2/15/2010 at 11:56:41 AM
Climate change is the current hot topic in environmentalism and science as we all know, but it has taken a while to get to that position. For too long people simply thought nothing was down to their own actions, that it was all down to others. Now it seems that just as the idea that [...]
Posted on 2/5/2010 at 3:32:48 PM
Swedish politicians have been working to find out how the Russian army was allowed to dump radioactive waste into their waters in the early 90s, after it was uncovered that certain politicians may have known at the time and did nothing to stop it.
The waste itself is believed to have come from a Latvian army [...]