New Record: Wind Powers 40% Of 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. As heavy winds lashed Spain on Saturday evening wind parks generated 9,862 megawatts of power which translated to 40.8 percent of total consumption. [ENN]
Earth in crisis, NASA scientist warns: GLOBAL warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA’s top climate scientist says. “We’ve already reached the dangerous level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, told AFP. “But there are ways to solve the problem” of heat-trapping greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, which Hansen said has reached the “tipping point” of 385 parts per million. [Australian]
Turbine technology is turning the tides into power of the future: The world’s first deep-water device to generate electricity from the tides on a commercial scale is due to start operating within weeks. [Times]
Analyzing ancient ice in the tropics before it melts: For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the most remote reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they’re gone. [LA Times]
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