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Carbon Trading Exchange Goes Live In Australia Sydney (AFP) July 23, 2007 
Australia's first emissions trading exchange went live Monday, setting an initial price for carbon at 8.50 Australian dollars (7.50 US) a tonne, officials said. The new exchange is a joint venture between the Melbourne-based Australia Pacific Exchange (APX), a bourse specialising in small niche companies, and the Australian Climate Exchange (ACX). Trading on the ACX Electronic Emissions Trading ... read more
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IAEA To Visit Japanese Quake-Hit Nuclear Plant, As Car Production Plummets
Vienna (AFP) July 24, 2007The UN's nuclear watchdog agency said Tuesday it would send a team of experts to Japan in the next few weeks to examine a nuclear power plant damaged during a deadly earthquake on July 16. "The IAEA intends to send a team of IAEA and international experts in the coming weeks" to examine the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant northwest of Tokyo, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement. more Energy Industry Gears Up For Nuclear Renaissance 
Mcclean Lake (AFP) Canada, July 24, 2007Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster poisoned the world's taste for reactors, a French firm is sniffing out fresh uranium supplies in Canada. And the race for nuclear power is back on. After the deadly Chernobyl reactor explosion in Ukraine in 1986 and a lesser scare at the Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania that rattled the United States in 1979, "people were wondering whether nuclear power ... more Graphene Nanoelectronics Making Tomorrow Computers From A Pencil Trace 
Troy, NY (SPX) Jul 25, 2007A key discovery at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute could help advance the role of graphene as a possible heir to copper and silicon in nanoelectronics. Graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, eluded scientists for years but was finally made in the laboratory in 2004 with the help of everyday, store-bought clear adhesive tape. Graphite, the common material used in most pencils, is made up of ... more A Russian View Of The Quake-Hit Japanese Nuclear Plant 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 25, 2007An earthquake hit the city of Kashiwazaki in Honshu last week, causing an estimated $33.3 billion worth of damage. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, one of Japan's largest, was in the earthquake zone. Radioactive substance leakage is reported. Japanese authorities and public are attacking the Tokyo Electric Power Company after it refused to give information on the danger. The alarm was sound ... more Hollywood Sound Engineer Goes Solar Because He Likes The Sound Of It 
Studio City, CA (SPX) Jul 25, 2007Academy Award Nominee for Sound, Art Rochester, turned on his 2.6 KW Solar Electric System today that was designed and built by the team at ABC Solar. The system features 16 Mitsubishi 165 watt solar panels connected to the LADWP grid. During the solar day Mr. Rochester's meter will spin backwards and he'll leverage LADWP to act as his 'battery' to store is solar energy credits. "Beyond ... 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 Russia Proposes Drafting Simpler START Arms Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 23, 2007Russia has proposed to the United States that the sides draft a simpler version of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), a senior Defense Ministry official said Wednesday. The current START treaty expires December 5, 2009. "In our opinion, we should not allow a vacuum in the sphere of strategic arms control," Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky said. "So far, the U.S. has not respo ... more Weather Extremes Hit Europe With Floods And Heatwaves 
London (AFP) Jul 23, 2007The Royal Air Force (RAF) said Sunday it was carrying out probably its biggest peacetime rescue operation in Britain as its helicopters helped evacuate more than 100 people from flood-hit areas. The RAF's announcement highlighted the scale of the flooding in central and western England that caused a third day of chaos for motorists and rail passengers and forced hundreds of people to spend anoth ... more
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