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Is Nuclear Power Necessary for a Workable Approach to Energy?

Posted on January 4, 2015 by

A reader named Barry has been active in 2GreenEnergy since its inception and asks: I had a couple of college professors that told me in 1977 at UCSB that nuclear power was using a flawed theory and that we have …

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The Migration to Electric Transportation — It's Complicated

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

craigshields Posted in Electric Vehicles

Here’s an overly simplistic article that questions the validity of electric vehicles as “green” transportation on the basis that coal is used to charge EVs. And here is one of the comments: “I power my electric car totally from solar …

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