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FPL Energy Signs Deal With Citrus Energy For First Of Its Kind Ethanol Plant Juno Beach FL (SPX) Jul 23, 2007 
FPL Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of FPL Group, has announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Citrus Energy, of Boca Raton, FL, to develop the first ever commercial scale citrus peel to ethanol plant. The cellulosic ethanol plant will be owned and operated by FPL Energy and is expected to produce four million gallons of ethanol per year. It will be located on the grounds of a local Florid ... read more
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007Russia will not revise its agreements with British investment companies developing its oil and gas fields because of the sharpening of relations between the two countries, Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said Tuesday. Trutnev was speaking at a meeting of the working group of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investments attended by representatives of foreign mining companies on July 17. ... more Russian Anti-Nuclear Activist Killed In Attack 
Moscow (AFP) July 21, 2007A Russian environmental activist died on Saturday after armed attackers raided a protesters' camp outside a nuclear facility in Siberia, officials and activists said. One of some 20 protesters at the tent camp told AFP the attackers were "skinheads" who had used baseball bats, hammers, metal rods and an axe during the raid near the Angarsk uranium enrichment plant. "They came at around 5:0 ... more Sarkozy Wants All-French Energy Giant 
Berlin (AFP) Jul 23, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to kick Germany out of a Franco-German nuclear engineering joint venture to create an all-French energy giant, a German magazine reported Saturday. Sarkozy wants to buy Siemens AG's 34 percent stake in Areva NP, a joint venture set up in 2001 with French nuclear group Areva, Wirtschaftswoche said in an article to appear on Monday, citing company sources. ... more Californians For Clean And Reliable Energy Call For Support Of Sunrise Powerlink 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2007Highlighting the importance of new electric transmission to the State of California, leaders of Californians for Clean and Reliable Energy (Cal-CARE) have announced their support of the Sunrise Powerlink, a 150-mile transmission line that would deliver reliable and renewable power from the Imperial Valley to San Diego and help avoid more than one million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. ... more Japan Agrees To UN Inspection Of Quake-Hit Nuke Plant 
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 23, 2007Japan has agreed to let UN experts inspect its largest nuclear power plant, which leaked radiation after a powerful earthquake, causing a scare, a report said. Kyodo News said the industry ministry has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it will agree to the inspection of the plant some 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of Tokyo. No officials could immediately be reached late S ... more |
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London UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2007While investment opportunities still exist in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector of the Russian energy industry for the construction of gas liquefaction plants, the Government has turned its focus on the nuclear power generation sector. The idea is to attract significant foreign investment by diversifying and transmitting nuclear energy through the establishment of various nuclear plants and ... more UN To Inspect Japan Radiation Site 
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 23, 2007Japan will let UN inspectors visit its largest nuclear plant in hopes of easing international concern after an earthquake caused a radiation leak, officials said Monday. The government has told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it can send a mission to the plant around 250 kilometres (150 miles) northwest of Tokyo. "In the interest of offering information, Japan will have talks ... more Constellation Energy And EDF Form Joint Venture For Next-Generation Nuclear Facilities 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2007Constellation Energy and EDF have announced a strategic joint venture focused on the potential development and deployment of the first fleet of new nuclear power plants in the United States and Canada in nearly three decades. Constellation Energy and EDF will form a new nuclear holding company, known as UniStar Nuclear Energy, LLC, designed to develop, own and operate new U.S. and Canadian nucle ... more Theoretical Physicists Organize To Stem Outsourcing 
Buffalo NY (SPX) Jul 23, 2007Mention "outsourcing" and people tend to think of fields like manufacturing or telemarketing; theoretical physics isn't even on the list. Yet the scientists who develop theoretical predictions for high-energy particle physics experiments say "outsourcing" in their field has allowed the U.S. to lag behind in this area of high-profile, global science. "This is the wrong kind of outsourcing," ... more |
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Pennington NJ (SPX) Jul 23, 2007WorldWater and Solar Technologies Corp has announced that the Company has signed a Letter of Intent with M and G Promociones de Vivienda Urbana S.A., a real estate developer in Spain, to build several solar farms in Lorca (Murcia), Spain over the next five years. The contract to be negotiated will reflect plans by M and G to build three 10-MegaWatt (MW) farms over the next three years, with impl ... more Algae The Misunderstood Answer To Our Fuel And Global Warming Problems 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2007Green Star Products President, Joseph LaStella, stated "Today we are closer than ever before solving our energy and global warming issues. The solution is 'ALGAE', one of the oldest forms of life on Earth." Algae-to-biofuels is quickly becoming a hot item. Unfortunately, like many new technology trends nonsense prevails and uninformed investors follow the yellow brick road. However, there is rea ... more New Software Product Based On Sandia-Developed RAMPART 
Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Jul 20, 2007Regina Hunter, retired Sandia National Laboratories employee, is launching a new software product, Safe at Home, based on Sandia-developed RAMPART. Safe at Home allows homeowners to assess risks arising from accidents, fire, crime inside or outside the house, hurricane, flood, earthquakes, tornados and winter storms. The software analyzes the risks of death, injury, property and content loss, lo ... more Peru Launches Drive To Regrow Lost Forests And Jungles 
Lima (AFP) July 19, 2007Peru has launched an ambitious drive to regrow millions of hectares (acres) of jungle and forests laid bare by illegal logging, pollution and slash-and-burn farming, officials said Thursday. The immediate goal is to reforest more than 100,000 square kilometers (the size of South Korea) of forest that have been devastated these past 40 years, said National Institute of Natural Resources (Inrena) ... more
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