DANISH WIND FARM COMPANY SUED FOR SPOILING VIEW by DAVID ATHERTON 12 Sep 2014 Europe’s troubled wind turbine industry has a new predicament, with a householder in Denmark successfully suing Vestas, a Danish wind turbine manufacturer. Vestas was sued by the householder with the help of International Law Office and awarded 500,000 Danish kroner (£53,000) […]

The American: How Green Is Europe? Summary: trueHUEnews staff October11, 2014: Despite claims to the contrary Europe has far to go when it comes to renewables and to meeting EU green energy targets.  Consulting the annual BP World Energy Review statistics shows that the share of EU’s renewables was at 11.5 percent in 2013 and at […]

The American: California’s New Solar Plant: Burning Up Taxpayer Money, Land, and Wildlife Summary: by trueHUEnews staff October11, 2014: The new 2.2 billion dollar Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Southern California Mojave desert received a $1.6 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. Because Ivanpah is a solar facility, the loan guarantee […]

London Guardian: The great diesel scandal: how cheap fuel is choking our cities Summary: by trueHUEnews staff 08/25/14 Diesel fuel has been widely accepted as  environmentally “green” by the car driving public in Europe and England due to its relatively inexpensive cost and mileage advantage.  Now, however, this viewpoint is being brought into question as […]

London Telegraph: Hamas manipulated and intimidated the media in Gaza. Why was that kept from us? Summary: by trueHUEnews Staff/ 08/21/14 Hamas has a well documented record of shutting down news bureaus, intimidating the press, and arresting reporters and cameramen as documented in the “Committee to Protect Journalists”.  In the recent Gaza conflict Hamas has […]

ABC News: Emerging Solar Plants Scorch Birds in Mid-Air Summary: by trueHUEnews staff/ 08/21/14 The $2.2 billion dollar BrightSource solar plant located at Ivanpah Dry Lake near the California-Nevada border has been scorching birds and acting as a mega-trap for wildlife attracted by the bright lights.  Federal Wildlife investigators are urging a halt to its […]

Aeon: For the sake of the economy should we all consume more? Summary: By trueHUEnews Staff / 07.22.14 Is the politics of consumer abstinence and doing more with less as UK Prime Minister David Cameron and others have advocated really the answer to our economic stagnation and income inequality? Florian Schui a historian at Royal Holloway, […]

Powerlineblog: More than 160 children purportedly died digging Hamas’s tunnels trueHUEnews Staff 08.11.14 Children as a result of their size and agility were used by Hamas to dig many of its tunnels.  Due to the harsh conditions it is purported according to the Journal of Palestine Studies that more than 160 children have perished in […]

Most solar panels are facing the wrong direction, say scientists In northern hemisphere most solar panels point south. But west-facing panels are able to generate more even flow of electricity than spikes of energy at lunchtime By Keith Perry 5:33PM BST 28 Jul 2014 452 Comments Thousands of people have spent vast sums of money […]

Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League The nation’s top colleges are turning our kids into zombies By William Deresiewicz In the spring of 2008, I did a daylong stint on the Yale admissions committee. We that is, three admissions staff, a member of the college dean’s office, and me, the faculty representative—were going […]