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In reply to the discussion: Nuclear power and the French energy transition: It’s the economics, stupid! [View all]kristopher
(29,798 posts)17. Why would people burn coal when it will cost less to use renewables?
It isn't complicated. Your objections have the same general construction as when climate deniers look at snowstorms as proof that AGW is a hoax.
Ikea to Double Renewable Energy Investment to $4 Billion by 2020
By Peter Levring, Bloomberg
January 23, 2013
COPENHAGEN -- Ikea Group, the world's biggest furniture retailer, will double its investment in renewable energy to $4 billion by 2020 as part of a drive to reduce costs as cash-strapped consumers become more price sensitive.
The additional spending on projects such as wind farms and solar parks will be needed to keep expenses down as the company maintains its pace of expansion, Chief Executive Officer and President Mikael Ohlsson said in an interview in Malmo, Sweden.
I foresee well continue to increase our investments in renewable energy, said Ohlsson, who is due to step down this year after 3 1/2 years at the helm. Looking at how quickly were expanding and our value chain, we will most likely have to double the investments once more after 2015.
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http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/01/ikea-to-double-renewable-energy-investment-to-4-billion-by-2015?cmpid=SolarNL-Thursday-January24-2013By Peter Levring, Bloomberg
January 23, 2013
COPENHAGEN -- Ikea Group, the world's biggest furniture retailer, will double its investment in renewable energy to $4 billion by 2020 as part of a drive to reduce costs as cash-strapped consumers become more price sensitive.
The additional spending on projects such as wind farms and solar parks will be needed to keep expenses down as the company maintains its pace of expansion, Chief Executive Officer and President Mikael Ohlsson said in an interview in Malmo, Sweden.
I foresee well continue to increase our investments in renewable energy, said Ohlsson, who is due to step down this year after 3 1/2 years at the helm. Looking at how quickly were expanding and our value chain, we will most likely have to double the investments once more after 2015.
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Nuclear power and the French energy transition: It’s the economics, stupid! [View all]
kristopher
Jan 2013
OP
German carbon emissions from electricity generation went up in 2011
muriel_volestrangler
Jan 2013
#7
I realized I wasn't ready to start discussing this yet, for a variety of reasons.
GliderGuider
Feb 2013
#32
Even after Fukushima, twice as many French support nuclear power as are against
wtmusic
Feb 2013
#38
I always thought the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was written by scientists
wtmusic
Feb 2013
#43
You have to admit your standards of what constitute "science" are very subjective
kristopher
Feb 2013
#48