أرشيف الوسم : Energy

L’opérateur Xcel Energy a alerté fin novembre les autorités sanitaires que 1,5 million de litres d’eau contenant du tritium s’étaient échappés d’une conduite de sa centrale nucléaire de Monticello. Le Minnesota, qui en a informé le public jeudi 16 mars, estime qu’il n’y a pas de risque sanitaire.

On Tuesday researchers confirmed they have overcome a major barrier - producing more energy from a fusion experiment than was put in.

Europe is sweltering during a prolonged summer heatwave. But the attention of political leaders is increasingly focused on the coming winter. As a succession of recent warnings from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and elsewhere has underlined, an energy crisis to rival the oil price shock in the 1970s could hit when the weather turns cold.

Prices in the US rose faster than expected last month, as rising energy and food costs pushed inflation to the highest rate since 1981.

An astonishing global shift is under way: 127 countries have now stated that by mid-century their overall emissions of carbon dioxide will be zero. That includes the EU, US, and UK by 2050 – and China by 2060. Companies are enthusiastically signing up to similar “net zero” goals.