Archive for November, 2007

Germany: Wind farms produce almost as much as nuclear power plants

November 7th 2007: It was a windy day and a black out day for nuclear power plants in Germany. Five of the 17 nuclear power plants in Germany had problems and had to be shut down. That day wind farms almost generated as much energy as the 12 remaining nuclear power plants did. According to ISET wind farms produced 275 million kwh and the nuclear power plants generated 340 million kwh and 840 kg of fuel assembly waste. I hope we will have more windy days — but not as windy as currently.

sonnenseite.de: Offenbar ein neuer Allzeitrekord! Da von den 17 deutschen Atomkraftwerken vier wegen ungeplanter Störungen (Biblis A, Biblis B, Brunsbüttel, Krümmel) und eines wegen geplanter Inspektion (Gundremmingen C) insgesamt fünf still stehen, haben die restlichen 12 AKW etwa 340 Millionen Kilowattstunden Atomstrom produziert und dabei rund 840 Kilo Brennelementmüll erzeugt, der erst in einer Million Jahren wieder auf eine nicht mehr tödliche Radioaktivitätsstärke abgeklungen sein wird.

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IEA: Global-warming gases set to rise by 57 percent by 2030

The International Energy Agency as published a study which explains that emissions of greenhouse gases will rise by 57 percent by 2030 compared to current levels (oh, and by the way, we are finally settled in Australia!)

AFP via yahoo!: The IPCC said that in order to limit the average increase in global temperatures to 2.4 C (4.3 F) — the most optimistic of any scenario — the concentration of greenhouse gases would have to stabilise at 450 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

To achieve this goal, CO2 emissions would have to peak by 2015 at the latest, then fall by between 50 and 85 percent by 2050, the panel.

But the IEA’s World Energy Outlook report saw no peak in emissions before 2020.

To achieve the 450ppm target would mean that CO2 from energy sources would have to peak by 2012, which in turn would require a massive drive in energy efficiency and a switch to non-fossil fuels, the report said.

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