Environment News - February

Obama's $646 Billion Cap-And-Trade Green Tax
As I see it, the most important single item in President Obama's budget is his commitment to a cap-and-tradeplan (to limit and reduce carbon emissions).
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Can the UK Government justify Heathrow Expansion and New Coal Power Station? The Debate goes Global
A global protest against UK plans to build new coal power plants is being launched today by campaigners from more than 40 developing countries accusing the government of being a "climate criminal".
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The future can only lie in next generation renewable energy technologies
Renewable energy needs to become a lot more renewable – a theme that emerged at the Financial Times Energy Conference in London this week.
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James Lovelock outlines what he believes to be mankind’s ‘one last chance’
For those that don’t know who James Lovelock is here’s the one sentence bio: Originator of the Gaia hypothesis, chemist, did work on atmospheric chlorofluorocarbons which eventually led them from being banned, advocate of nuclear power.
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Hydrinos - A new source of energy 100 times more powerful than burning hydrogen?
Imagine that you could make hydrogen atoms do something that quantum mechanics says they can’t: slip into an energy state below the ground state, the collapse releasing 100 times as much energy as you’d get by just burning the hydrogen.
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