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UK will have to gamble with nuclear safety provide power, analyst warns

2014-06-04 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Britain may have to stretch safety limits on nuclear power stations to keep the lights on, warned a leading energy analyst on Wednesday. Dorian Lucas, a nuclear specialist at energy consultancy, Inenco, made his comments after it was revealed that power group, EDF, had won permission to change the rules for its Dungeness B station. "Britain has no choice but to gamble with extending the safety limits of the country's ageing fleet of nuclear power plants to avoid the looming spectre of 1970s-style...

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Climate Change Denial: A Costly, Politically Dangerous Gamble

2014-05-27 05:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

MintPress: Half of the United States is suffering through drought conditions - including all of California, which saw huge swathes of the San Diego area swept by raging wildfires this month. In the Midwest, major rainstorms and tornadoes inundated the Mississippi floodplain for days, causing millions of dollars in damage. In Baltimore, hurricane-intensity rain contributed to the collapse of a city street. It is the consensus of the scientific community that the Earth is sick. According to the National Climate...

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AMDs next big gamble: ARM and x86 cores working side by side on the same chip

2014-05-22 20:42:41| Extremetech

AMD has already announced that it plans to build ARM and x86 cores on a common platform going forward -- but what if that's just the first step in the company's long-term plan? We examine the case for a future ARM-x86 combined processor family, with both architectures sharing space on the same SoC.

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