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US Power Plant CO2 Emissions Register Biggest One-Year Jump Since 1998 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2008 
A poor progress report on efforts to rein in greenhouse gases: Carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants climbed 2.9 percent in 2007, the biggest single-year increase since 1998, according to new analysis by the nonprofit and nonpartisan Environmental Integrity Project of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Now the single largest factor in U.S. ... read more |
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Key To Using Local Resources For Biomass May Include Waste
Richland WA (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The Northwest of the USA can have a sizeable biofuels industry based primarily on local resources - if non-traditional feedstocks, such as municipal waste, and new conversion technologies are used, according to a report issued by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. It will be difficult for the Northwest to create a significant biofuels industry based on current ... more International Team Discovers New Family Of Superconductors 
Saskatoon, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2008University of Saskatchewan Canada Research Chair John Tse and colleagues in Germany have identified a new family of superconductors-research that could eventually lead to the design of better superconducting materials for a wide variety of industrial uses. In an article published in the prestigious journal Science, the team has produced the first experimental proof that superconductivity ... more Chrysler And Washtenaw County Collaborate To Test Winds For Clean Energy Production 
Chelsea MI (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The winds in western Washtenaw County will be tested for clean energy production over the next year, beginning with construction of a 26-story meteorological tower at Chrysler's Chelsea Proving Grounds this week. Over the next 12-18 months, energy experts from the county, the University of Michigan and the consulting firm, North Coast Wind and Power, will monitor high-level winds at the site to ... more Analysis: Oil prices look skyward 
Washington (UPI) Mar 18, 2008 With the plummeting dollar, geopolitical uncertainty and investor speculation all being blamed for soaring oil prices, it is unclear whether U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's efforts to persuade Saudi Arabia to increase oil production will result in cheaper oil. Oil prices briefly touched a record $112 a barrel Monday before falling more than $4 on fears the troubles at Bear Stearns ... more Wind Becomes Farmers' Cash Crop As VINCO Collaborates With NativeEnergy 
Charlotte VT (SPX) Mar 19, 2008Ensuring the future development of new clean energy projects, NativeEnergy, an international marketer of high quality carbon offsets and renewable energy credits (RECs), is partnering with VINCO. This new collaboration increases opportunities for small-scale renewable energy projects, such as family farm wind turbines, to receive the additional funding necessary to ensure widespread development ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2008 Iraq's oil law debate is political, not technical, a top U.S. official said, adding Iraq has tagged billions of dollars to boost oil production regardless. Charles Ries, U.S. State Department minister for economic affairs and coordinator for economic transition in Iraq, said the proposed law isn't necessary for Iraq to produce oil "but it would clearly be much, much better and incentive ... more A380 superjumbo makes European debut in London 
London (AFP) March 18, 2008The world's biggest passenger plane, Airbus's A380, touched down in London Tuesday on its first commercial flight to Europe facing questions from green groups over its eco-friendly billing. The Singapore Airlines jet, as tall as a seven-storey building and with about 50 percent more cabin space than its rivals, was carrying 449 passengers enjoying increased legroom and state-of-the-art ... more Developer to Build Europe's Largest SolarWall System in Latvia 
Buffalo NY (SPX) Mar 19, 2008The Baltic country of Latvia will soon be home to the largest SolarWall system in Europe. 22,000 ft2 (2,100 m2) of solar panels, delivering more than 1 MW of thermal energy, have been specified for heating and ventilation purposes at a new warehousing and distribution complex in Latvia. The installation is scheduled to be completed by the end of the summer, and the system will displace more than ... more RoseStreet Labs Energy Announces Opening Of Full Spectrum Solar Cell Development Center 
Phoenix AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2008RoseStreet Labs Energy announced the grand opening of its new solar cell development center in Phoenix, Arizona. This photovoltaic development center includes a full spectrum photovoltaic pilot line and also a laboratory for solar cell packaging and interconnection. RoseStreet Labs Energy is developing both thin film and multijunction high efficiency solar cells for both the concentrated ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 17, 2008Russia struck an upbeat note Monday on easing tensions with the United States as President Vladimir Putin discussed a key letter from US President George W. Bush with top US officials in the Kremlin. "We can put a full stop on some problems in US-Russia relations and consider them definitively resolved," Putin said at the start of talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence ... more Indigenous people can offer climate change solutions: IUCN 
Geneva (AFP) March 14, 2008Honduras' Quezungal farmers have an age-old trick to protect their crops from hurricanes -- planting them under trees whose roots would anchor the soil, thereby holding the crops steady. Not just these farmers, but many indigenous people around the world are sitting on a treasure trove of traditional knowledge that could be mined as the world seeks adaptation strategies to deal with climate ... more Mozambican government seeks urgent food aid after cyclone 
Maputo (AFP) March 17, 2008The Mozambican government has made an urgent appeal to the UN World Food Programme to help more than 60,000 people left destitute when cyclone Jokwe hit northern and central parts of the country. "The government has made an urgent appeal to the WFP for food to feed people who were affected by cyclone Jokwe," Joao Ribeiro, the deputy national director of Mozambique's government-run national ... more Eco-Friendly Pyrotechnics 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 18, 2008You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom-and entrances us. "No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the general population as fireworks," says Thomas Klapotke (University of Munich, Germany). "However, pyrotechnical applications are significant polluters of the environment." In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Klapotke and his co-author ... more
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