The Entitlement Generation
From the monthly archives: April 2011
First and most importantly… My thoughts and prayers are with the men, women, and children in the tornado devastated cities and towns in the south. I have spent a lot of time in the last two days in devastated areas with the majority of the time being spent in Pleasant Grove [...]
KYIV, Ukraine—Nikolai Vsisovich worked as a liquidator inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the No. 4 reactor exploded 25 years ago. He is the last surviving work of 18 men. With the Fukushima crisis still not resolved, Vsisovich shares what he sees as too high a [...]
Marilyn Bechtel – When Governor Jerry Brown put his signature on Senate Bill 2X April 12, California became No. 1 in the nation in its commitment to renewable energy.
SB 2X, introduced by state Senator Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, requires all electricity retailers in California, whether privately owned or municipal, to get [...]
This 450 mah (approx 7 watt) solar panel comes with a 12 volt female cigarette adapter and 15 feet of extension cord with O-ring battery terminal connectors which can connect to a battery or various other devices. The R-7 rollable solar panel will charge iPods, cell phones, smart phones, PDAs and direct charge a 12v [...]
By Peter Grier, Washington -Japan on Tuesday raised its assessment of the severity of the situation at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to 7 – the worst score possible on the accident rating scale overseen by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
That does not mean the Fukushima crisis has suddenly become [...]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian university students unveiled a car that runs entirely on solar energy.
The students from the vehicular research department at the University of Qazvin designed and developed the vehicle named ‘Havin’ which means ‘shining sun’.
Havin is five meters long and two meters wide and is capable of reaching speeds [...]
Russian and the Ukrainian physicians have studied the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the past 25 years and they are ready to share their experience with Japan in the wake of the accident at its Fukushima nuclear power plant. Among the illnesses caused by exposure to radiation are radiation sickness, leukemia, [...]
(TOKYO-IPS/Al Jazeera) – In a nuclear crisis that is becoming increasingly serious, Japan’s Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed that radioactive iodine-131 in seawater samples taken near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex that was seriously damaged by the recent tsunami off the coast of Japan is 4,385 times the level permitted by [...]
(Bloomberg-Ben Sills) – China is beating the U.S. in the race to supply clean-energy technologies to the world, helped by a government bank whose advisers include Henry Kissinger.
China Development Bank Corp., which listed the former U.S. secretary of state as an advisory board member in a 2010 bond prospectus, agreed last [...]
California has consistently led the nation over the past decade in its adoption of green energy technologies. California ranked first in 2010 amongst all states in solar panel installations. This week, the state assembly approved a measure that mandates utilities to increase the percentage of electricity derived from clean, green energy sources.
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