Waste Not Stay Hot Says Spanish Government With New Air Con Rules
Madrid (AFP) Jul 06, 2007
The Spanish government led by example Friday on energy waste, ordering pubic buildings to stick to a minimum summer temperature of 24 degrees Celsius (77 degrees Fahrenheit). With much of Spain baking in rising summer temperatures that can surpass 40 degrees, the government is courting unpopularity by making people work under the restrictions. But Spanish First Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa ... read more
Chinese Mayor Urges Residents To Stop Buying Cars
Beijing (AFP) Jul 06, 2007
The mayor of one of China's showpiece economic cities has urged his 11 million residents to stop buying cars in a bid to ease worsening traffic and pollution woes, state media reported Friday. The booming southern city of Shenzhen, just across from the border from Hong Kong, now has more than one million cars, with 90,000 new cars registered already this year, the English-language China Daily re ... more
How To Manage Floating Fluids In Space
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2007
Six months is a long time to be away from home. But Astronaut Sunita Williams had plenty of work to keep her busy during her stay on the International Space Station, including a group of experiments she dubbed "lava lamp." "I call it the 'lava lamp' experiment because some of the fluid is pink, and we hang out watching it with video and pictures," she wrote in her mission log. "If only we had a ... more
Let Them Raise Catfish Says Indonesian Minister As Future For Mud Volcano Victims
Jakarta (AFP) Jul 05, 2007
Hundreds of hectares of land inundated by sludge spewed from a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia should be developed to raise catfish, a minister said Thursday. "We have tested this and it has been proven that catfish can be raised in ponds made of the mud," environment minister Rachmat Witoelar told AFP. Witoelar said the government's priority was now to try to reduce the mud outflow or ha ... more
Green Campaigners Keep Watch On Dubai Man-Made Isles
Dubai (AFP) Jul 05, 2007
Giant islands taking shape off the coast of Dubai are sparking interest not only from celebrities but also from environmental campaigners jittery about the man-made structures so large they can be seen from space. Work is all but complete on the Palm Jumeirah, the first of three palm tree-shaped islands, which developers Nakheel say is more than one and a half times the size of New York's Centra ... more
Hot Economy Means China May Miss Energy Efficiency Targets
Beijing (AFP) Jul 05, 2007
China may not achieve its much-trumpeted five-year goal on improving energy efficiency due to runaway economic growth, the nation's top planning officials said in comments published Thursday. "The trend of overheated economic development has not been contained," the Beijing News quoted Ma Kai, China's top economic planner, as telling a government panel on energy efficiency on Wednesday.
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ENERGY TECH
Malaysian Rainforests Not Cleared For Palm Oil In A Decade
ENERGY TECH
EU Highlights Biofuel Drawbacks
ENERGY TECH
Nearly Half Of Electricity From Renewable Resources By 2030 Says Berlin
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Lula Defends Brazil Biofuels Industry
Brussels (AFP) Jul 05, 2007
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended biofuels Thursday aimd growing concerns about their drawbacks, saying they offer an "opportunity" to lift developing countries out of poverty. The Brazilian leader said that the success his country's booming biofuels industry has enjoyed could be reproduced in some of the poorest parts of the world, helping to alleviate poverty. "I am convin ... more
Environmental Degradation A Growing Public Danger To People In China
Beijing (AFP) Jul 04, 2007
China's environment is close to breaking point and the situation is endangering people's lives, one of the nation's top anti-pollution officials said in comments published Wednesday. Pan Yue, an outspoken vice minister at the State Environmental Protection Administration, said campaigns to clean-up the environment were going backwards because the country's primary focus continued to be on econom ... more
Activists Demand Full Details Of German Nuclear Plant Fire
Kiel, Germany (AFP) Jul 04, 2007
Environmentalists on Wednesday blasted an energy company for failing to reveal the full extent of a fire last week at a German nuclear power plant. The German branch of Friends of the Earth, BUND, demanded from European energy group Vattenfall "full transparency in the investigation of the causes of the fire and possible dangers." A company spokesman dismissed the criticism, saying it had provid ... more
Eyeing The Shanghai Group In 2007
Sapporo, Japan (UPI) Jul 03, 2007
The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The U.S. government has reacted warily to the SCO for several reasons. First, when Washington asked to send observers to the SCO summit meetings, its request was refused.
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SUPERPOWERS
US And Russia Begin Nuclear Reduction Talks
ENERGY TECH
Cities To Boom In Africa And Asia
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Islands Off China Vanishing Under Weight Of Exploitation
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Statoil And Shell Scrap Carbon Capture Plans To Pump More Oil
Oslo (AFP) June 29, 2007
Norwegian oil group Statoil and Britain's Shell said Friday they were scrapping plans to use carbon dioxide (CO2) to increase oil production. An evaluation showed that "though the value chain is technically feasible, it is not commercial viable," Statoil said in a statement. The project, announced in March 2006, involved the construction of a gas-fired power plant and a methanol production facil ... more
EU To Relaunch Ties With Africa Amid Rising Chinese Influence
Brussels (AFP) Jun 29, 2007
The European Union aims to set up a strategic partnership with Africa to meet the continent's most important needs and match growing Chinese influence there, officials said Thursday. "We are looking for new, high-level relations. We want it to be a strategic partnership," Portugal's State Secretary for European Affairs, Manuel Lobo Antunes, told reporters.
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Russia And France Establish JV To Produce Nuclear Power Planet Turbines
Paris (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007
Russia's Atomenergomash and France's Alstom signed Friday documents to establish a $400-million joint venture to manufacture half-speed turbines for nuclear power plants in Russia and abroad. The companies reached a deal in April with Russia's state controlled nuclear power corporation having a 51%-share in the JV, which will operate on the platform of the machine-building firm ZIO Podolsk in th ... more
Russia Pipeline No Threat To Europe Caspian Project Says Gazprom
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007
Russia's South Stream pipeline project is not politically motivated and does not threaten Nabucco, Europe's $6-billion gas pipeline project linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, the Gazprom head said Friday. The Russian energy giant and the Italian gas company Eni SpA signed June 23 a memorandum to construct the South Stream gas pipeline, which will stretch for 900 kilomet ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Belarus To Announce Nuclear Power Planet Tender Soon
ENERGY TECH
India-Iran-Pakistan Talks On Gas Pipeline Still To Continue
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Hong Kong Choked By Growing Pollution Problem
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