Rapid-Fire Pulse Brings Sandia Z Method Closer To Goal Of High-Yield Fusion Reactor
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Apr 26, 2007
An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments and computer simulations at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine facility.
Z, when it fires, is already the largest producer of X-rays on Earth and has been used to pro ... read more
New Transmission Needed To Support Growing Texas Wind Generation Capacity
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2007
Every dollar spent for construction of new transmission lines to support the development of wind resources in Texas will result in a $5 to $7 reduction in energy costs, according to testimony filed Tuesday with the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) by Electric Transmission Texas, a proposed joint venture between subsidiaries of American Electric Power and MidAmerican Energy Holdings.
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NAEG Reports Breakthrough For Its Wind And Solar Projects
Forest Hills NY (SPX) Apr 26, 2007
Native American Energy Group reported Monday that the newly proposed construction of a 203-mile-long transmission line tying Alberta into the U.S. power grid in Montana may be the solution that allows NAEG to tap the potential for wind and solar generation in Montana.
One of Native American Energy Group's near-term goals is to begin joint- venturing renewable energy projects on several Ind ... more
EU Warns Russia Against Using Energy For Political Purposes
Vilnius (RIA Novosti) Apr 26, 2007
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and European MPs have urged Russia to abandon using energy as a political weapon and resume oil supplies to Lithuania. They adopted a joint statement saying that Russia and the EU are mutually dependent on energy, and that the majority of problems arise from political disagreements.
Piebalgs told MPs in Strasbourg he intended to pressure Russia into r ... more
Ethiopia Seeks Seized Chinese Oil Workers As Toll Rises
Addis Ababa (AFP) Apr 25, 2007
Ethiopia searched for up to seven seized Chinese oil workers Wednesday after an attack on a Chinese-run oil venture which killed 77 people, according to a new toll.
Ethiopia sent an investigation team to the Ogaden oil prospection site in a remote eastern region, while a local leader added three more Ethiopians to the death toll, which includes nine Chinese.
The Ogaden National Liber ... more
Ethiopia Says Eritrea Behind Chinese Oil Facility Bloodbath
Addis Ababa (AFP) Apr 25, 2007
Ethiopia on Wednesday accused arch-foe Eritrea of supporting the rebels who attacked a remote Chinese-run oil venture that killed 74 people, and abducted up to seven Chinese workers. Eritrea immediately denied the claim -- the latest in a string of accusations and counter-accusations between the rival neighbours.
"The perpetrator of the terrorist attack ... is the self-styled Ogaden Nation ... more
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UC Researchers Shatter World Records With Length Of Latest Carbon Nanotube Arrays
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New Materials For Making Spintronic Devices
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New Family Of Pseudo-Metallic Chemicals Could Create New Electronic Materials
Columbia, MO (SPX) Apr 25, 2007
The 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, 2007
By 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, 2007
An 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, 2007
Kazakhstan'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, 2007
PricewaterhouseCoopers 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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Russia Nuclear Power Paradox
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Colorado Governor Breaks Ground On 8-Megawatt Photovoltaic Solar Plant
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Scientists Use Supercomputer to Target Ethanol Cellulose Bottleneck
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Nuclear Power Not The Solution For China Says Official
Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2007
Nuclear 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, 2007
Congress 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, 2007
EU 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, 2007
Japan 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, 2007
Nearly 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, 2007
A 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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Kyocera To Double Manufacturing Capacity For Solar Modules
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Tiffany Deploys Over 1 Megawatt Of Solar Power At New Jersey Distribution Center
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