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Plan B - Free download of Lester Brown's Plan for Sustainability

By Carolyn on December 1, 2009 10:52 AM

Released 2009

Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

Lester R. Brown

Brown argues that food may be the issue that convinces the world of the need to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2020. Every major environmental trend from climate change to deforestation and water scarcity affect food supplies. In this completely revised edition, Brown focuses on details of the plan and how it is already emerging in the energy economy.

 
 
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The Department of Energy's hydropower research program focuses on hydropower and ocean and instream hydrokinetic tech

By Carolyn on April 25, 2008 4:20 PM
hydroelectric power
 

After several years without funding, the Department of Energy's hydropower research program has been revived by Congress for 2008. The new "water power" program includes research on both conventional hydropower technologies and new ocean and instream hydrokinetic technologies. ORNL is the lead laboratory for the hydropower side of this new program. Total funding for the first year is $10 million, a large portion of which will come to ORNL.

ORNL's work will include technology development, demonstration and deployment, resource assessment, environmental studies, siting issues, strategic planning and analysis.

Hydropower provides more than 70% of the renewable electricity in the U.S., but that share has been declining in recent years as other renewables have been growing. The goal of the new DOE Water Power Program is to double generation to more than 500 terawatt hours per year by 2030, which would ensure that hydropower maintains an important place in the nation's renewable energy portfolio.

Source: ORNL's hydropower update
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