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New Weather Index Is Launched To Hedge Risk Paris (AFP) May 10, 2007 
France's national weather service and the market Euronext launched a scheme on Thursday aimed at helping companies anticipate risks from abrupt changes in the weather. Metnext, a joint venture of Meteo-France and the subsidiary of NYSE Euronext, aims at giving "customised indices" to individual firms that will advise them about upcoming weather risk.
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California Breaks It's New Solar Rebate Program
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 11, 2007The California Solar Rebate program has snuck in regulations that makes ROI on solar harder to reach. The problems relates to forcing people who go solar to use Time-of-use metering. According the Los Angeles Times the rebate reservation requests have dropped 75% compared Q1 2006. My business has noticed a sharp increase in interest in solar, but more of the clients are scared to do it because ... more Self-Sufficient Danish Island Leads The Way In Clean Energy 
Samsoe, Denmark (AFP) May 10, 2007Battered by winds in the waters off eastern Denmark, the picturesque island of Samsoe has broken free of its dependence on oil and gas and, thanks to devoted residents, is now powered solely by renewable energies. A former Viking stronghold with rolling hills, small villages and vast golden fields of rapeseed, Samsoe touts itself as a model to follow in the fight against global warming. Th ... more Russia Sets Up Nuclear Energy Corporation 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007The establishment of the state-owned holding Atomenergoprom under a recent presidential decree is a result of a large-scale reform of the nuclear sector, which began in 2006. It is the core asset that will carry out challenging plans aimed to raise the Russian nuclear sector to new highs. The Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), which proposed the idea and drafted the reform plan, a ... more Warsaw Energy Summit's Bleak Prospects 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007The energy summit scheduled to take place in Warsaw on May 11-13 makes little sense. Poland, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, the so-called Five, planned to agree on the construction of the Odessa-Gdansk gas pipeline and other routes of energy supplies bypassing Russia. About two weeks ago Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko said it w ... more Russia And Kazakhstan Sign Deal On Uranium Enrichment Center 
Astana, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Kazakhstan has produced a bilateral agreement to set up an international uranium enrichment center in East Siberia. The venture, which was part of Moscow's non-proliferation initiative to create a network of enrichment centers under the UN nuclear watchdog's supervision, will be based at a chemical plant in Angarsk and will also be responsible for the ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2007A new study by NASA scientists suggests that greenhouse-gas warming may raise average summer temperatures in the eastern United States nearly 10Fahrenheit by the 2080s. "There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less-than-average frequent rainfall," said lead author Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and C ... more Faster And Better Emergency Response Through Satellite Telecoms 
Paris, France (ESA) May 10, 2007When emergency teams are well informed and governments can coordinate their efforts, lives and property can be saved. The Health Early Warning System, a project supported by ESA, is intended to bring this benefit to Europe. Extreme natural phenomena like tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes have featured prominently in the news. So, too, has the rapid spread of new diseases such as SARS and avia ... more Methane May Allow Rockets To Go Beyond The Fringes Of Space 
Washington (ANI) (SPX) May 10, 2007Engineers at XCOR Aerospace say that methane gas can be better used as a fuel to power rockets in the future. Its abundance on several planets of the solar system, including Mars, holds promise of making interplanetary flights free from dependence on earthly fuels if spaceships have to travel to other planets in a timely fashion. "It's not as nice as kerosene. But it's available on Mars an ... more New 1/f Noise Discovery Promises To Improve Semiconductor-Based Sensor 
Argonne IL (SPX) May 10, 2007More sensitive sensors and detectors based on semiconductor electronics could result from new findings by researchers from the United States, Norway and Russia. Their research has yielded a decisive step in identifying the origin of the universal "one-over-f" (1/f) noise phenomenon; "f" stands for "frequency." "One-over-f noise appears almost everywhere, from electronic devices and fatigue ... more |
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The Hague (AFP) May 09, 2007The Netherlands will return, or burn, a United States shipment of genetically modified corn that lacks clearance from European authorities, the Dutch food security authority said Wednesday. Environmental organisation Greenpeace recently denounced the corn gluten shipment, which arrived at the Rotterdam port on April 10. The genetically modified corn was not authorised by the European Union, the ... more Bridges Will Rock Safely During Quakes With New Design 
Buffalo NY (SPX) May 10, 2007Bridges that "dance" during earthquakes could be the safest and least expensive to build, retrofit and repair, according to earthquake engineers at the University at Buffalo and MCEER. The researchers recently developed and successfully tested the first seismic design methodology for bridge towers that respond to ground motions by literally jumping a few inches off the ground. The new meth ... more Twenty Years Of Yucca Mountain Research Now Available For Scientific Review 
Boulder CO (SPX) May 10, 2007The scientific community can now take a long-awaited look at the research behind the selection of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, as the nation's high-level radioactive waste repository. The Geology and Climatology of Yucca Mountain and Vicinity, Southern Nevada and California, published by the Geological Society of America, presents important results of a significant part of the U.S. Department of Ener ... more A Russian Comeback To Central Asia More Than A Pipe Dream 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 10, 2007When Vladimir Putin became president seven years ago, he made a blitz tour of post-Soviet Central Asia. One of the problems he inherited from Boris Yeltsin was lack of proper relations with the former "fraternal" Central Asian republics, which had become members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The niche voluntarily vacated by Russia did not remain empty for a long time. Ce ... more
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