Sustainable energy

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Sustainable energy is defined as energy which, in its production or consumption, has minimal negative impacts on human health and the healthy functioning of vital ecological systems, including the global environment, and that can be supplied continuously to future generations on earth. Such forms of energy include, but are not limited to the following: solar thermal, solar photo-voltaic (PV), wind, hybrid wind-solar, fuel cell, geothermal, small-scale (mini- and pico-) hydro-electric, tidal and wave. This definition specifically excludes nuclear and fossil fuel energy or their “improvements” as an option thereof. ^[1]

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microgeneration
Community energy projects
Energy awareness weeks
Fuel poverty Projects
Energy Credit Unions
Community owned energy sources
sustainable hydropower

[edit] Why it matters

Sustainable energy is about renewable, clean or green energy, and energy efficiency or saving energy. (longer article needed)

It doesn´t include nufo (nuclear or fossil fuel) energies.

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SCA

Renewable energy

category:Solar energy

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Alternative energy category ^W
Windfarm ^W
World Alliance for Decentralized Energy ^W, (WADE)
Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation ^W
International Sustainable Energy Agency ^W
World Community Grid ^W, The Clean Energy Project
Wind power ^W
Anaerobic digestion ^W

Wikisphere

PESWiki
Clean coal on Greenlivingpedia, includes content on Greenwashing and failures
BioenergyWiki - addresses biofuels, bioenergy sustainability, and related issues.

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International Sustainable Energy Organization

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References

Scientific American, Energy versus water: solving both crises together, October 2008

↑ Nuclear power is sometimes presented as a sustainable, clean energy source. However, “(a)s long as the limited supply of rich uranium ores hold out, the nuclear energy fuel chain does indeed, after about 7 years of operation, produce less CO2 than a gas-burning plant. But when the uranium content of ores gets below around 0.05%, it becomes doubtful if nuclear power will lead to the production of any less CO2 than just burning fossil fuel directly.” (IVEM Centre for Energy & Environmental Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands, April 2001). Further, “at all stages of nuclear power generation, nuclear energy produces substantial amounts of waste and environmental pollution (from uranium mining tailings through to spent nuclear fuel, plutonium, and other highly radioactive wastes). [Although the nuclear reactor of a nuclear power station does not, in itself, produce any CO2,] the nuclear fuel chain is a significant source of carbon dioxide emissions; it causes radioactive contamination of the air, water and land…and encourages the proliferation of nuclear weapons…” (Pacific News Bulletin, January 2001.)

[0] Nuclear power is sometimes presented as a sustainable, clean energy source. However, “(a)s long as the limited supply of rich uranium ores hold out, the nuclear energy fuel chain does indeed, after about 7 years of operation, produce less CO2 than a gas-burning plant. But when the uranium content of ores gets below around 0.05%, it becomes doubtful if nuclear power will lead to the production of any less CO2 than just burning fossil fuel directly.” (IVEM Centre for Energy & Environmental Studies, University of Groningen, Netherlands, April 2001). Further, “at all stages of nuclear power generation, nuclear energy produces substantial amounts of waste and environmental pollution (from uranium mining tailings through to spent nuclear fuel, plutonium, and other highly radioactive wastes). [Although the nuclear reactor of a nuclear power station does not, in itself, produce any CO2,] the nuclear fuel chain is a significant source of carbon dioxide emissions; it causes radioactive contamination of the air, water and land…and encourages the proliferation of nuclear weapons…” (Pacific News Bulletin, January 2001.)

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