Meanwhile, whatever happens with nuclear energy, solar power remains the most dynamic, fastest-growing source of clean, renewable energy and, indeed, of any energy source.
And the solar industry is both an affordable and sustainable source of clean energy, and a significant job creator.
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The Obama administration and most of Congress do not want to deter companies from expanding this source of clean power.
Wind turbines that are a source of clean, green energy are also having an unforeseen impact on bats and birds.
Hydrogen produced from renewable resources is a promising source of clean energy, but the gas is difficult to handle and transport.
So what better time for Ocean Power Technologies, a company that aims to capture hydropower as a source of clean, renewable energy, to makes its U.S. stock market debut?
When solar entrepreneur Edward Fenster looks across the roofs of photo voltaic panels his company has installed on thousands of homes, he sees not just a source of clean green electricity but also security.
As more governments look to civilian nuclear power as a source of clean electricity, tighter controls and other new schemes are needed to help stop would-be cheats or terrorists from exploiting or stealing some of the proliferation-prone technologies and materials for bomb-building.
On earth, a magnetically confined plasma is what nuclear-fusion researchers wrestle with in their search for a clean source of energy.
He said the Bridgend plant will be the sole global source of the clean energy engine and it was a "real feather in the cap" for Wales.
And they are an exceptionally clean power source, producing only water vapor as waste.
Now common sense would be for all to look for a Clean Fuel Source like Wind, Hydro, Geothermal and Solar.
If there is a cheap and clean energy source out there, odds are someone--looking in the right place--will find it.
The makers say the new bus offers a "sustainable, safe and clean power source", ideally suited for a densely populated city.
Of course, a clean water source isn't always waiting for you between booths -- when that happens, there's no beating a well-placed bottle of hand sanitizer.
President Barack Obama has strongly endorsed natural gas as a clean energy source, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said more natural gas is critical for the city to improve air quality and public health.
Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
Shale gas production has become all the rage in the U.S. because it potentially increases the U.S. supply of natural gas, a clean burning energy source.
The New Source Review provision under the Clean Air Act, for example, is intended to prevent older coal-fired power plants from equipping their old units to produce more energy that release more pollutants.
But if the smaller and scalable technologies prove effective, they will establish valuable niche markets for themselves not just among the TVAs of the world but also among those local utilities and less developed countries that need a clean and continuous source of power.
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According to a 2006 Unicef report, more than 125 million children under age 5, most from developing countries, live in households without access to a clean drinking-water source.
In the end, Germany can still modify its energy plan to reasonably address its ideological concerns and bring up renewables to a sustainable level without doing away with their only clean and cheap energy source.
Caerphilly-based RMB Security Services Limited's Lifestraw - A high-tech water-filter in a straw, invented and manufactured by Swiss company Vestergaard-Frandsen, which uses allows soldiers to drink clean water from any source while out on operations.
"They would develop a new source of income if they could sell clean electricity to Europe, " he told CNN.
The wind industry has largely been out-competed by natural gas, which has proved to be a clean, reliable and cheap power source for the future without subsidies or even venture-capital funding.
As a result, companies and governments need to find a way to bridge the current fossil fuels era to the next era, where clean energy will become a key energy source.
We need to create a Clean Water Trust Fund that would ensure a source of money for critical community water systems no matter the funding whims of congress and the president.
"Using these plants, we will be able to remove radioactive nuclides from the water and make it clean for irrigation purposes or even as a source of drinking water, " says Slavik Dushenkov of Phytotech.
China stalled its production of dozens of new nuclear power stations, but has since returned to building out the clean-burning, but potentially hazardous, energy source.
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