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With wind braced for more cutbacks, government backing of nuclear and fracking will end in tears.
Coal closures announced this week in South Australia will cause employment pain, but could also help pave the way for the state to go 100% renewable - something that modelling suggests is eminently possible.
Instead of spending time trying to make nuclear energy a possibility, South Africa should look to forms of renewable energy instead.
What to make of the announcement that we’ll be off the hydrocarbons in time for the 22nd century? Dream on.
Controversy has raged down the years over whether the film was censored by the government. Now secret files reveal the truth after 50 years.
With the end of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race came to a virtual halt, but the nuclear threat remained. In regional rivalries, such as those in the south Asia subcontinent, northeast Asia, and the…
Westminster’s energy strategy to “keep the lights on” by relying on new nuclear build is looking increasingly like a recipe for economic ruin and political disarray. George Osborne, the chancellor, confirmed…
Westminster has failed to control rising electricity and gas prices. Between 1997 and 2013, UK households saw combined electricity and gas prices rise by 54% in real terms. In contrast, family income has…
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