japan alternative energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:13:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Solar Power Plants Replace Abandoned Japanese Golf Courses https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-plants-japan/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-plants-japan/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2015 06:13:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56154 Japan has come up with an innovative way to use several abandoned golf courses. The courses were initially built during the ’80s when golf was extremely popular in the country. In 2015, the sport is losing fans, so much so that 40% less golf is being played in Japan than in the 1990’s. Kyocera has instead […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/solar-powered-plants-japan/feed/ 1 56154 The Necessary Evil: Japan to Restart Two Nuclear Reactors in Fukui Prefecture https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oi-nuclear-plant-restart-20120619/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/oi-nuclear-plant-restart-20120619/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:48:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=25079 Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda approved the restart of reactors 3 and 4 at the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, owned by Kansai Electric Power Company. This is the first plant to come online after the total shutdown from last month, which left Japan with zero nuclear contribution to the power grid. The […]

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