Forecast charges up AMSC’s shares; MASS. MOVERS – The Boston Globe

American Superconductor Corp., which makes wind turbine components
and transmission lines, rose after the Electric Power Research Institute
promoted the use of superconducting lines to prepare the US grid for an
increase in renewable and nuclear energy. The industry group said

Earthquake prone Japan sees green in new nuclear power plants – The Christian Science Monitor

Japan is pressing ahead with an expansion of nuclear power, despite public unease and vocal opposition from activists. Poor in natural resources, the country has long dreamed of reducing its fossil
fuel dependency through domestic nuclear power. Now it’s casting nuclear energy as a key to the fight

Renewable energy is safe and sustainable ; Integrity in politics – The Herald (Glasgow, Uk))

The debate on nuclear energy should take the following into account:
uranium, the fuel, is finite. It will reach the point when the energy needed to
extract it will exceed the energy it yields. Fast-breeder reactors, as
advocated by Professors Colin McInnes and Ken Ledingham (Letters, February

Arizona going nuclear? – Arizona Capitol Times (Phoenix, Az)

For Arizona politicians, the easy part of plunging back into the
nuclear-energy business is well under way – the talking part. Now come the details, which include such hurdles as finding enough water,
winning federal permits and – what else? – coming up with the billions of
dollars needed to pay

CAROL M. BROWNER, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE, AND SECRETARY OF ENERGY STEVEN CHU HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY – Political Transcript Wire

SECRETARY OF ENERGY STEVEN CHU AND CAROL M. BROWNER, ASSISTANT TO
THE PRESIDENT FOR ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE, HOLD A NEWS TELECONFERENCE ON
NUCLEAR ENERGY FEBRUARY 16, 2010 SPEAKERS: CAROL M. BROWNER, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR ENERGY
AND CLIMATE CHANGE SECRETARY OF ENERGY STEVEN

Obama aims to win climate bill with green jobs

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, trying to save a stalled bill to fight climate change, said on Wednesday clean energy investment could power jobs growth and made no mention of creating a market in planet-warming emissions.

LETTERS – The Herald (Glasgow, Uk))

Dounreay shows what a disaster nuclear energy provision can be FIFTY years after Dounreay was started, it is time to look back. As
a young graduate engineer, I believed in the technology and applied
to work there. Now, looking back from maturity, I consider Dounreay to be the
biggest disaster in

Our views: ; Saving the planet or destroying it?; Solar and wind power affect enormous expanses of land – Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, Wv)

THE Nature Conservancy released a report last month, “Energy Sprawl
or Energy Efficiency: Climate Policy Impacts on Natural Habitat for
the United States of America.” The conservancy pointed out that wind, solar and renewable energy
sources require far more land than nuclear energy and coal. To

Make nuclear power part of Florida’s future – The Miami Herald

Florida needs new, clean electricity supplies to meet projected
growth and to reduce our dependence on polluting fossil fuels. We
should welcome the approval of a new Levy County nuclear plant (
Florida OK’s plan to build nuclear plant, Aug. 11). Nuclear energy in the United States in past 20

To make better biofuels, researchers add hydrogen

Research on nuclear energy and hydrogen has yielded what backers say is a technology that could replace U.S. oil imports with biofuels made from agricultural by-products.

Scientists at Idaho National Laboratory have been working for the past year and a half on a process to convert biomass, such straw …