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Chinese Officials Say Ditch The Suit And Slash Energy Use Beijing (AFP) June 14, 2007 
Chinese officials have revealed their latest weapon against excessive energy use -- encouraging office workers to ditch business suits in favour of T-shirts, state media reported Thursday. Several leaders of the State Council, China's cabinet, have called on office workers to dress in light, casual clothing instead of the typical suit so that air conditioners can be turned down ... read more
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Toyota To Make Diesel Engines With Isuzu
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 15, 2007Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. will outsource production of low-pollution diesel engines to Isuzu Motors Ltd., a local business newspaper said Friday. The move comes as the Japanese auto giant aims at solidifying its position as the leader in eco-friendly vehicles by tapping the technology of a capital tie-up partner, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said. Isuzu will invest about 30 billion yen ... more Alternative Energy Comes Closer With Advances In Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sealing Technology 
Chulalongkorn, Thailand (SPX) Jun 15, 2007Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC) have attracted major interest from research and development communities as an alternative source of power, with commercial trials already under way. In these fuel cells electricity is generated via electro-chemical reactions using hydrogen based gas and oxygen as a fuel and oxidant, respectively. Sealing these units is a critical technical issue that needs ... more Russian Utility Eyes 700-Million-Euro Kyoto Windfall 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 15, 2007Russia's electricity monopoly United Energy Systems hopes to attract investment worth 700 million euros under the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, CEO Anatoly Chubais said on Thursday. But he also issued a warning to consumers that they would have to foot the bill for technology needed to limit emissions within Russia, where electricity production has been booming. "Our aim is to ... more Airbus Wants To Cut CO2 Emissions By Half By 2020 
Paris (AFP) June 14, 2007European aircraft manufacturer Airbus is committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions from its planes by half between now and 2020, company chief executive Louis Gallois said here Thursday. Gallois also appealed to Airbus competitor Boeing to take take part in an industry conference on protecting the environment. "The industry must do everything it can to ensure that the contribution to ... more Plastic That Grows On Trees 
Richland WA (SPX) Jun 15, 2007It has been an elusive goal for the legion of chemists trying to pull it off: Replace crude oil as the root source for plastic, fuels and scores of other industrial and household chemicals with inexpensive, nonpolluting renewable plant matter. Scientists took a giant step closer to the biorefinery this week, reporting in the June 15 issue of the journal Science that they have directly converted ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 13, 2007China's secretive transformation of its military power leaves the United States preparing for the worst eventualities, including over Taiwan, a Pentagon official said Wednesday. About 900 Chinese missiles are in place opposite Taiwan, while China is also rolling out far more sophisticated long-range nuclear missiles, combat planes, warships and submarines, the Department of Defense official said ... more Pentagon Drops Ideology 
Arlington VA (UPI) June 13, 2007You don't need to be a defense expert to see the biggest lesson of Friday's leadership purge at the Pentagon. When you're in the military, losing wars is a bad career move. That's what America is doing in Iraq right now -- losing -- and the political system has had enough of the senior officers who presided over the debacle. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said when he took over from t ... more Livestock Virtually Fenced In 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2007A virtual fence for livestock that allows better use of pasture, protects the environment and reduces labour, is being developed by the CSIRO Food Futures Flagship using satellite technology. The project is focussed on developing an animal-friendly virtual fencing system for cattle that enables the animals to be confined without using fixed fences. At this stage in the development of what ... more South Korea's Sluggish Project 
Seoul (UPI) June 12, 2007Challenged by China's push to tap into North Korea's natural resources, South Korea wants to speed up economic cooperation with Pyongyang. But the efforts are unlikely to bear fruit in the near future as a key project of swapping manufacturing raw materials for mineral exploration rights has been stalled over the protracted nuclear standoff. The two Koreas signed a deal in 2005 under which ... more |
WOOD PILE
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft plans to spend $1.2 billion on the construction of ships to develop oil fields off Russia's Far East coast, the company's CEO said Wednesday. Addressing a conference on prospects for maritime operations, Sergei Bogdanchikov said Rosneft currently needed to build 27 vessels for the development of shelf deposits. Three of the ships are already under const ... more The Original Nanoworkout - Helping Carbon Nanotubes Get Into Shape 
Troy NY (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles. These tightly packed bundles are efficient conductors and could one day replace copper as the primary interconnects used on computer chips and even hasten the transition to next-generation 3-D stacked chips. Theoretical studies show that carbon nanotubes, if packed ... more New Quantum Key System Combines Speed And Distance 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2007Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system, based on a new detector system that achieves dramatically lower noise levels than similar systems. The new system, they say, can perform a theoretically unbreakable "one-time pad" encryption, transmission and decryption of a video signal in real-time o ... more Extreme Environment Biology Research May Help Solve Lignocellulosic Ethanol Puzzle 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jun 14, 2007Buried beneath a sulfurous cauldron in European seas lies a class of microorganisms known as "extremophiles," so named because of the extreme environmental conditions in which they live and thrive. Almost as radical, perhaps, is the idea that these organisms and their associated enzymes could somehow unlock the key to a new transportation economy based on a renewable biofuel, lignocellulosic eth ... more
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