GreenMonk news roundup 04/01/2009

• Stern: ‘Kingsnorth should be shelved’ – UK Politics, UK – The Independent

  Britain’s latest coal-fired power station should not be built, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, the economist who led the Government’s review into the financial cost of climate change. Lord Stern called on the Government to halt the planning process and said that the new coal-fired power station proposed for Kingsnorth in Kent cannot be justified until the technology is developed to capture and store its huge carbon dioxide emissions.

  tags: stern, coal, carbon capture and storage, carbon dioxide, greenmonktv

• Surveillance vehicles take flight using alternative energy

  fuel cell powered UAVs are taking flight as an Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored program to help tactical decision-makers gather critical information more efficiently… and more quietly.

  tags: uav, onr, navy, fuel cell, greenmonktv

• Worldchanging: Bright Green: World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida

  World’s Second* Largest Solar Plant To Be Built in Florida

  tags: csp, concentrating photovoltaic, Concentrated solar-thermal, florida, greenmonktv

• World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector – Maps and Graphics at UNEP/GRID-Arendal

  World Greenhouse gas emissions by sector

  tags: greenhouse gas, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, map, unep, greenmonktv

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