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In the US last year enough grain to feed 330 million people for one year, at average world consumption levels, was instead turned into ethanol to fuel cars, according to new data from the US Department of Agriculture.
View full article at Next Generation Power and Energy US
The threat of a global water shortage
The world’s apparent warming climate has caused fresh water reserves to fall across the globe consequently waking people up to the importance of our “water footprint”.
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Copenhagen 2009: The Carbon Footprint
Today sees the start of the UN Climate Change Conference, where diplomats from 192 nations take part in the best and perhaps last chance to protect the world from the disasters of global warming, in what has been dubbed the most “important climate change summit in history”.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference is happening in Copenhagen on Monday, so here’s the lowdown on who you can expect to see around the table, what they are expecting to achieve and why it’s so important why we need change.
Samso: The energy self-sufficient island
Inhabitants on the small Danish island of Samso have collaborated to form a social energy revolution. The small Baltic island has become one of the first industrialised places in the world to qualify as being totally energy self-sufficient.
Next Generation Power and Energy online take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of wind power. View full article
Next Generation Power and Energy EU online take a look at some fact and figures of solar power in Europe. View full article.
Emissions are a major global issue at the moment, but has nuclear power been overlooked as an alternative way to produce our electricity? Graphic taken from a leading Power and Energy News website.
A recent Figure has been announced by Germany’s climate advisor as to how much CO2 we can emit before climate change is out of our hands. Graphic taken from Power and Energy News.
Where do the UK’s CO2 emissions come from, and how does it compare to the rest of the world? Infographic taken from P&E EU, a leading Energy Industry News website.
