Kan To Announce New Energy Program At G8

[DeSwiss]

Source: NHK World

Kan To Announce New Energy Program At G8

NHK World
Sunday, May 22, 2011 04:57 +0900 (JST)



Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce Japan's new project to develop renewable energy at the forthcoming G8 summit in Deauville, France. In the wake of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, nuclear safety is expected to be featured at the meeting on May 26th and 27th.

On his first trip abroad since the disaster, Kan plans to explain Japan's response to the nuclear crisis and its new energy policy, dubbed as the Sunrise Program. It is aimed at adding renewable energy to the country's core energy sources.

Under the program, the cost of solar power generation will be slashed to one-third of the current level by 2020 and one-sixth by 2030. Japan hopes to install solar panels on virtually all rooftops. The plan also envisions the construction of large-scale offshore wind farms and the full-scale introduction of next-generation biomass fuels in the 2020s.

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[tabasco]

1. How'd he get back to Earth?

I thought Kirk stranded him on some habitable planet.

[MasonJar]

2. Thank God some world leader is touting renewable energy. He has

disaster behind him to prove nuclear is not the way to go. Until a viable way to store nuclear waste is found, it is not a reasonable solution.

[kristopher]

3. Crossposting to DUEE.

K&R

[kristopher]

4. Now the ProNuke LDP is trying to blame the meltdown on Kan.

Unbelievable.

[daleo]

5. This seems like a good plan

Since Japan has little or no fossil fuel reserves they might just be able to implement it without the political interference the oil industry can bring to bear in other places.