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China To Power Up With Biggest Solar Plants Ever Shanghai (AFP) Nov 21, 2006 
China intends to build one of the world's biggest solar power stations at a cost of 765 million dollars, state press reported Tuesday. The 100-megawatt facility, to be built in Dunhuang, an oasis town in northwest China's Gansu province, will be a collaborative effort between the local government and Beijing's Zhonghao New Energy Investment, Xinhua news said. The project will take five-years to construct, it added. The report followed plans announced by Australia last month to build the world's biggest solar power station, a 154 megawatt behemoth, which the builder said could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 400,000 tonnes a year.
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Boeing Power And Cooling Systems To Be Activated On ISS
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Boeing's primary electrical power and cooling systems on the International Space Station (ISS) will go live during Space Shuttle Discovery's next ISS assembly mission. Navy Dreams 
Washington DC (UPI) Nov 20, 2006Last week, for three days running, the Washington Times carried front-page stories about the interception of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, the Kitty Hawk, by a Chinese submarine. The submarine, a Song-class diesel-electric boat, popped up undetected in the middle of a carrier battle group, which was operating in deep water off Okinawa. iRobot Awarded Additional TSWG Funding 
Burlington MA (SPX) Nov 22, 2006iRobot has announced it was awarded an additional $1.6 million in funding from the U.S. government's Technical Support Working Group (TSWG) for development, training and field testing of the iRobot Warrior(tm) robot, formerly known as NEOMover. Since 2002, iRobot has received more than $8 million in development contracts from TSWG to develop a number of next-generation robot technologies. Warrior is expected to be ready for deployment in 2008. |
Ultra-Intense Laser Blast Creates True 'Black Metal'
Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 22, 2006"Black gold" is not just an expression anymore. Scientists at the University of Rochester have created a way to change the properties of almost any metal to render it, literally, black. The process, using an incredibly intense burst of laser light, holds the promise of making everything from fuel cells to a space telescope's detectors more efficient-not to mention turning your car into the blackest black around. Accord Signed In France On Breakthrough Nuclear Reactor 
Paris (AFP) Nov 21, 2006The EU and six nations signed a treaty Tuesday launching a multibillion-dollar experimental nuclear fusion research project, aimed at emulating the power of the sun to provide limitless, clean energy. "This is a new step in an exceptional adventure," French President Jacques Chirac said after leading the signing ceremony in Paris that ended decades of tortuous negotiations. BMW To Launch First New Hydrogen-Powered Model 
Frankfurt (AFP) Nov 21, 2006BMW, the German maker of luxury cars, said Tuesday that it planned to launch a new hydrogen-powered car based on its 7 Series model, initially in a very limited edition in 2007. The car will have a 12-cylinder 260 horse-power engine that can run either on liquid hydrogen or on petrol. |
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Geologists Find New Origins Of Appalachian Mountains
Athens, Ohio (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Geologists have developed a new theory to explain how and when the Appalachian Mountain range was created. Their research redraws the map of the planet from 420 million years ago. The scientists recently discovered a piece of the Appalachian Mountains in southern Mexico, a location geologists long had assumed was part of the North American Cordillera. Earthquake's Area Of Influence Larger Than Previously Thought 
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Nov 22, 2006Dr Alvaro Corral, a Ramon y Cajal researcher for the UAB Department of Physics, studies the relationships between the time and place of earthquake occurrences (ie, the jumps between an initial earthquake and another earthquake at a later time in another place) using statistical physics methods. Man Jailed In China For Dumping Chemical Waste 
Shanghai (AFP) Nov 21, 2006A Chinese man was sentenced to 18 months in jail for illegally dumping chemical waste, state press reported Tuesday. Xiao Cangwang dumped 39 tons of unprocessed construction site waste that contained poisonous chemicals including hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride on three occasions between March and June in Shanghai, the China Daily said. |
A Winding Road To Bogor
Hanoi (UPI) Nov 21, 2006The main intrigue at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, which ended in Hanoi on Sunday, found an expression in its final documents. One of them, called the Hanoi Action Plan, refers to APEC's initial objective, the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment in the region, which was formulated in Bogor, Indonesia, in 1994. Largest Superconducting Magnet Ever Switched On 
London UK (SPX) Nov 21, 2006The largest superconducting magnet ever built has successfully been powered up to its operating conditions at the first attempt. Called the Barrel Toroid because of its shape, this magnet is a vital part of ATLAS, one of the major particle detectors being prepared to take data at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator scheduledto turn on in November 2007. Sensor Networks Protect Containers, Navigate Robots 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Nov 21, 2006Agent 007 is a mighty versatile fellow, but he would have to take backseat to agents being trained at Washington University in St. Louis. Computer scientist engineers here are using wireless sensor networks that employ software agents that so far have been able to navigate a robot safely through a simulated fire and spot a simulated fire by seeking out heat. |
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