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74 Killed In Attack On Chinese Oil Venture In Ethiopia Addis Ababa (AFP) Apr 24, 2007 
Scores of gunmen attacked a Chinese-run oil field in a remote area of Ethiopia on Tuesday, killing nine Chinese and 65 Ethiopians, in a raid claimed by a separatist rebel group. Seven Chinese workers were also kidnapped in the dawn attack by the Ogaden National Liberation Front, which is fighting for the independence of ethnic Somalis in Ethiopia's eastern Ogaden region. The ONLF claimed responsibility in a statement on its website in which it said it had completely destroyed the oil facility. "We urge all international oil companies to refrain from entering into agreements with the Ethiopian government as it is not in effective control of the Ogaden despite the claims it makes," the statement said ... read more
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New Family Of Pseudo-Metallic Chemicals Could Create New Electronic Materials
Columbia, MO (SPX) Apr 25, 2007The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Society of Chemists, allows scientists to manipulate a molecule discovered 50 years ago in such as way as to give the molecule metal-like properties, creating a new, "pseudo" element. The pseu ... more New Model Describes Avalanche Behavior Of Superfluid Helium 
Champaign IL (SPX) Apr 25, 2007By utilizing ideas developed in disparate fields, from earthquake dynamics to random-field magnets, researchers at the University of Illinois have constructed a model that describes the avalanche-like, phase-slip cascades in the superflow of helium. Just as superconductors have no electrical resistance, superfluids have no viscosity, and can flow freely. Like superconductors, which can be ... more Revamped Experiment Could Detect Elusive Particle 
Gainesville, FL (SPX) Apr 25, 2007An experiment called "shining light through walls" would seem hard to improve upon. But University of Florida physicists have proposed a way to do just that, a step they say considerably improves the chance of detecting one of the universe's most elusive particles, a candidate for the common but mysterious dark matter. In a paper that appears online today in the journal Physical Review Let ... more Kazakhstan Studying Caspian-Europe Pipe To Bypass Russia 
Astana (RIA Novosti) Apr 25, 2007Kazakhstan's government could join a proposed gas pipeline linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, if the project meets the country's economic interests, the premier said. The $6-billion pipeline project is an extension of the South Caucasus pipeline, linking Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, and is expected to run from Turkey to Austria via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungar ... more Gazprom Steps On The Gas 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 25, 2007PricewaterhouseCoopers analysts forecast that in 2010, one-third of natural gas traded in the world will be liquefied. Meanwhile, Gazprom, a Russian monopoly with ambitions to be a global energy producer, is suffering from a bad shortage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and export facilities. The feeling at the company is that this shortage is increasingly damaging its prospects, ... more |
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Nuclear Power Not The Solution For China Says Official
Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2007Nuclear power is not the long-term answer to China's energy needs due to limited global uranium supplies and problems with nuclear waste disposal, state media on Monday quoted a top official as saying. "Nuclear power cannot save us because the world's supply of uranium and other radioactive minerals needed to generate nuclear power are very limited," Chen Mingde, vice chairman of the Natio ... read more Why GNEP Can Not Jump To The Future 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2007Congress is now considering whether to approve or zero out the $405 million that President Bush is proposing to spend in fiscal year 2008 on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)-a program aimed at rendering plutonium inert in nuclear weapons but still useful in nuclear power plants. Nuclear experts at the National Academy of Sciences have long questioned the practicability of the t ... more Biodiesel Will Not Drive Down Global Warming 
London UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2007EU legislation to promote the uptake of biodiesel will not make any difference to global warming, and could potentially result in greater emissions of greenhouse gases than from conventional petroleum derived diesel. This is the conclusion of a new study reported in Chemistry and Industry, the magazine of the SCI. Analysts at SRI Consulting compared the emissions of greenhouse gases by the ... more India And Japan Sign Pact On Global Warming 
Tokyo (AFP) April 23, 2007Japan signed a deal Monday to help fast-growing India fight global warming as the two countries look ahead to a framework after the landmark Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Under the agreement, Japan will invest in India's energy industry and transfer energy-saving technology. It comes two weeks after Japan sealed a similar agreement with China during a landmark visit here by Chinese Premi ... more Buried Residual Oil Is Still Affecting Wildlife Decades After A Spill 
Bell House MS (SPX) Apr 24, 2007Nearly four decades after a fuel oil spill polluted the beaches of Cape Cod, researchers have found the first compelling evidence for lingering, chronic biological effects on a marsh that otherwise appears to have recovered. Through a series of field observations and laboratory experiments with salt marsh fiddler crabs (Uca pugnax), doctoral student Jennifer Culbertson and colleagues found ... more Everything Starts With Recognition 
Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2007A human body has more than 10 to the power of 27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions. Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart in collaboration with scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute in Freiburg and the King's Collage London have followe ... more |
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