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LPP Combustion Technology Proves That Renewable Soy-Based Biodiesel Can Burn as Cleanly as Natural Gas Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2007 
LPP Combustion has demonstrated that the patented LPP Combustion System will allow soybean oil-based biodiesel to burn as cleanly as natural gas, with no net greenhouse gas emissions. During testing this month, LPP Combustion obtained emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter comparable to natural gas level emissions usi ... read more
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Great River Energy Issues RFP Seeking Renewable Energy Resources
Elk River MN (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Great River Energy has issued a request for proposals for renewable energy resources (RFP) and other power generation resources with low or no net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Great River Energy is subject to the Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard, which requires electric utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their energy sales from renewable energy, reaching 25 percent by 2025. ... more GE Investing To Expland Wind Energy Portfolio 
Sweetwater TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2007GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, has agreed to invest in its biggest wind farm, the 241-megawatt Sweetwater 4 facility, along with a sister project in Texas. The announcement was made today at Universal Studios California at GE's "Green is Universal" exhibition, a celebration of GE customers' improvements in operating and environmental p ... more India Resists Calls To Cut Emissions As Brazil Says No To US Plans 
New Delhi (AFP) Jun 04, 2007India said Monday that it would not agree to any commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under growing international pressure, and instead pressed for greater collaboration on clean technologies. New Delhi has already said it would reject such calls at this week's Group of Eight summit, where climate change will be a key topic, because stricter limits would slow ... more China Cool On Two-Degree Warming Limit 
Beijing (AFP) Jun 04, 2007China said Monday it would not back efforts to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, which UN experts have warned is the threshold-level to stop the worst impacts of climate change. "Whether or not we can set a limit on a two-degree (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperature I'm afraid still lacks a lot of scientific evidence and dependable and feasible research," Ch ... more How To Rip And Tear A Fluid 
University Park PA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007In a simple experiment on a mixture of water, surfactant (soap), and an organic salt, two researchers working in the Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Penn State have shown that a rigid object like a knife passes through the mixture at slow speeds as if it were a liquid, but rips it up as if it were a rubbery solid when the knife moves rapidly. ... more |
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New York (UPI) June 01, 2007Despite its role as the Pentagon's top contractor, Lockheed Martin is searching for some good news after a remarkable series of setbacks in recent months. First came the cancellation of the company's contract to build a second "littoral combat ship" for the Navy after its first ship in the series was plagued by cost overruns and design problems. Then the U.S. Coast Guard took over the management ... more Bush Seeks To Soothe Russia And China Over Missile Tensions 
Washington (AFP) June 01, 2007US President George W. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race. "The Cold War is over. We're now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists ... and the threats of proliferation," Bush said in an ... more EU, US Agree 15 Years Left To Avert Climate Disaster 
Berlin (AFP) June 03, 2007The United States and the European Union agree that the next 15 years will be decisive in averting a global warming disaster but disagree on a strategy, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday. "I do not think that we are so far apart in our underlying analysis of the situation," Steinmeier told Deutschlandfunk radio. He said Washington and Europe concurred that "politicians ... more NGO Warns Of Explosion Risk At Russian Nuclear Storage 
Oslo (AFP) June 01, 2007A Russian nuclear waste storage facility on the Kola Peninsula runs the risk of exploding soon due to severe corrosion on three tanks, the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona warned on Friday. "The risk of an uncontrolled chain reaction in the storage facility is imminent," Bellona, which works with nuclear contamination on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, said in a statement. ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 04, 2007A GE Energy ecomagination-certified Jenbacher landfill gas engine is powering the world's first commercial landfill gas (LFG)-to-liquid natural gas (LNG) conversion facility designed to create alternative fuel for vehicles. The LNG produced at the new facility is primarily targeted to be used as fuel for mass transit and other large vehicle fleets in the Los Angeles, Calif. region. Accordi ... more Quasicrystals: Somewhere Between Order And Disorder 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Professionally speaking, things in David Damanik's world don't line up - and he can prove it. In new research that's available online and slated for publication in July's issue of the Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Damanik and colleague Serguei Tcheremchantsev offer a key proof in the study of quasicrystals, crystal-like materials whose atoms don't line up in neat, unbroken rows l ... more Australia Sets Carbon Trading Date In 2012 But Prefers An Aspirational Target Only 
Sydney (AFP) June 03, 2007Prime Minister John Howard announced Sunday that Australia, one of the worst per-capita polluters in the world, will launch a domestic carbon trading scheme in 2012 to fight global warming. But Howard warned that capping the carbon dioxide belched out by coal-fired power stations could seriously hurt the economy and Australia might have to turn in part to previously shunned nuclear energy. ... more Centex Homes Offers Sharp Solar Electricity Systems In New Home Development 
Naples FL (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Centex Homes will offer solar electricity systems from Sharp, the world's leading provider of solar cells, on 89 homes in The Quarry, a new community north of Naples, Florida. Sharp solar systems will be offered on several single-family and estate homes in two "solar neighborhoods" within The Quarry community, designed to augment the power supplied to each home from the grid. "Centex is co ... more
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