Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Japan embraces renewables but turns nuclear reactors back on

Spiegel: Yasuyuki Ikegami has been in great demand since the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. A specialist in marine energy, Ikegami has spent years figuring out how to generate electricity from the power of waves and tides. One year after the meltdown in Japan, his research is more in vogue than ever before. The catastrophe has prompted the Japanese to renew their focus on renewable energies technologies. The country was once a pioneer in the field, but that was before all energy was devoted...

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/japan-embraces-renewables-but-turns-nuclear-reactors-back-on-a-846134.html
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