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What’s another $4 billion amongst friends?

Enviromental Defense

If we assume the same price, but that these plants operate for 13 years (from 2027 to 2040), that’s another $3.2 Meanwhile, solar power is the cheapest form of new electricity generation anywhere in the world, Ontario included. Let’s do the math $1093.22 billion for a total of $4.3 The most scandalous part?

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Analysis: Is hydrogen the new oil?

A Greener Life

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. The Olympic flame is already burning it. Iceland also has geothermal energy.

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Hillary Clinton’s Climate Change Plan

Columbia Climate Law

Hillary Clinton’s climate change plan , released last week, centers on two goals: installing 500 million solar panels by 2021, and, relatedly, adding enough electric generation capacity from renewable sources to supply all residential electricity needs. electric generation in 2027, rather than 28% in 2030 under the finalized Clean Power Plan.