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POPSRace to nuclear power generation The costs of decommissioning nuclear power plants is proving to be orders of magnitude greater than anticipated. Who will pay them? Will our children and their children have the money? See yesterday's clip: Nuclear clean-up costs 'to soar' http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D62BF5D1-BB89-470A-B2CF-19C6F5ED6749/
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POPSLiving in a world of $200 oil This scenario is being painted in a Financial Times editorial. You can't be much more mainstream than that. Pity the SUV owner / driver. Or could it be Divine justice?
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POPSThe U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be Our Undoing? An important article about an under-discussed topic. The investment required to keep the grid from falling apart is billions (hard to find at the best of times, harder in the "credit crunch"). Will the result be re-nationalisation and e-rationing?
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POPSLet them eat spuds: the world's new staple Anybody can grow them in their garden. They are much prettier than grass and the loosen up the soil for the next crop. And with 5,000 varieties, they should be out of reach of the biotech industry. Indeed, they are the perfect recession / depression crop. Also, once you start growing potatoes, you start growing other food, too.
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POPSExposed: the great GM crops myth There you are! A real hard-headed reason to dis-invest in GM technology, rather than unproven fears that it will cause some kind of unforeseen environmental catastrophe.
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POPSThe U.S Is Heading Towards Water Crisis Yesterday, I clipped an article which said that companies are now racing to build a new generation of nuclear power plants which run hotter than the current plants and presumably need more water cooling. See http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5B26C257-ADD3-4612-B223-68AD4FAF8A8A/