Positive news from Denmark
Electric shock: East coast network by 2012Eastern Coast of Australia - Australians could soon be able to sign up for an electric car in much the same way they do now for a mobile phone -- even getting a new car for nothing and paying only for the running costs, equivalent to what we now pay for petrol. |
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Denmark’s approves 400 MW offshore windmill park
Denmark's parliament on Monday approved the construction of a 400 megawatt (MW) offshore wind turbine park in the Kattegat arm of the North Sea between Jutland and the island of Anholt in 2012.
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New Record: Wind Powers 40% Of SpainMadrid, Spain - Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend. |
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Portugal finds a power niche in the sunAmareleja, Portugal - Broad fields of giant solar panels as big as houses tilt toward the sun in this torrid patch of the Iberian peninsula. |
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Denmark sets renewable energy target at 20 percent by 2011Copenhagen, Denmark - Denmark aims to increase its use of renewable energy to 20 percent of its overall energy mix by the end of 2011, up from 15 percent today, the government said Friday. |
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Virgin unveils spaceship designsEngland - Virgin Galactic has released the final design of the launch system that will take fare-paying passengers into space. |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Feuding Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites meet at peace seminar in FinlandHelsinki, Finland - Representatives of feuding Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq were meeting at a seminar behind closed doors Friday to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed, conference organizers said. |
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News from Europe
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
- Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleet
- Long hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse