Renewable energy consumption as percent of total energy consumption is 76% in some places. Iceland uses 76% of energy from renewables but that is probably mostly geothermal. But other numbers range from 11 to 50%.
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Alternet.
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Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Europe Votes against Import of 2,4-D and Glufosinate Resistant GMOs
Member States criticized the authorization procedure during the
three-month consultation period before approval, referring to missing or
insufficient data, contradictory statements and poor test design.
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Sustainable Pulse.
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Sustainable Pulse.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Radioactivity spreads over Europe
No one can figure out where the radioactive Iodine-131 comes from. Wikipedia says:
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ScienceAlert.
It has a radioactive decay half-life of about eight days. It is associated with nuclear energy, medical diagnostic and treatment procedures, and natural gas production. It also plays a major role as a radioactive isotope present in nuclear fission products, and was a significant contributor to the health hazards from open-air atomic bomb testing in the 1950s, and from the Chernobyl disaster, as well as being a large fraction of the contamination hazard in the first weeks in the Fukushima nuclear crisis.It was first found near the Norway Russia border in January 2017. Perhaps there is a nuclear site near there. It also appeared in Finland, Poland, Czechia (Czech Republic), Germany, France and Spain but details of the problem were only release recently.
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ScienceAlert.
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