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Beyond Batteries: Storing Power In A Sheet Of Paper Troy NY (SPX) Aug 15, 2007 
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new energy storage device that easily could be mistaken for a simple sheet of black paper. The nanoengineered battery is lightweight, ultra thin, completely flexible, and geared toward meeting the trickiest design and energy requirements of tomorrow's gadgets, implantable medical equipment, and transportation vehicles.
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Production Costs Of Advanced Biofuels Is Similar To Grain-Ethanol
London UK (SPX) Aug 12, 2007Second generation biorefineries - those making biofuel from lignocellulosic feedstocks like straw, grasses and wood - have long been touted as the successor to today's grain ethanol plants, but until now the technology has been considered too expensive to compete. However, recent increases in grain prices mean that production costs are now similar for grain ethanol and second generation biofuels ... more New Technology Has Dramatic Chip-Cooling Potential For Future Computers 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Researchers have demonstrated a new technology using tiny "ionic wind engines" that might dramatically improve computer chip cooling, possibly addressing a looming threat to future advances in computers and electronics. The Purdue University researchers, in work funded by Intel Corp., have shown that the technology increased the "heat-transfer coefficient," which describes the cooling rate, by a ... more Adding Up Renewable Energy 
Thessaloniki, Greece (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Do the overall efficiencies of renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and geothermal add up in terms of their complete life cycle from materials sourcing, manufacture, running, and decommissioning" Researchers in Greece have carried out a life cycle assessment to find the answer. Increasing energy consumption and a growing world population implies shrinking reserves of fossil fuels ... more LSU Professors Work To Improve Efficiency Of Ethanol Fuel 
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 15, 2007Lowering fuel emission levels is a topic facing constant scrutiny by the global public. Rising gas costs, environmental concerns and conflicts in oil-producing areas have made consumers, corporations and researchers more than curious about the potential of alternative, or "green," fuels, such as ethanol. James Spivey, McLaurin Shivers professor of chemical engineering at LSU, and Challa Ku ... more Analysis: Kazakhstan's nuclear future 
Washington (UPI) Aug 14, 2007 While Western attention focuses on the rising oil and natural gas potential of Caspian states, rising energy player Kazakhstan has another energy asset up its sleeve: uranium. Kazakhstan contains the world's second-largest uranium reserves, estimated at 1.5 million tons. In 2006 it produced 5,279 tons of uranium, 21 percent more than in 2005, and intends in 2007 to increase uranium prod ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 13, 2007 The announcement Saturday by President Vladimir Putin that Russia has launched a vast program to improve the country's missile defense system is being presented as a response to American plans to deploy a similar new U.S. anti-missile system in Eastern Europe. But it comes in the context of other recent Russian steps that suggest a determined and coordinated effort by the Kremlin to ass ... more Change On The Range 
Madison WI (SPX) Aug 14, 2007In the Southwestern U.S., land managers face equally critical and difficult decisions when it comes to their ranges. The region is known for its climate variability which has strong influences and impacts on range conditions. Access to the latest climate and range science information is vital for managers to make effective short and long-term decisions. An experiential learning exercise was held ... more Villagers return home to ruins in flood-hit SAsia 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 13, 2007Villagers returned home to ruins as flood waters continued to recede on Monday but the toll from the annual monsoon flooding across South Asia rose to 2,300, officials said. Tens of thousands are still housed in shelters while millions more are dependent on food and medical aid but displaced people began heading home in India and Bangladesh, at least to check out what remains of their homes. ... more Unlocking The Hydro Potential Of Tajikistan 
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 10, 2007Since 1991, the world has been in a mad dash for the energy resources of the Caspian, leaving out the resource-poor mountainous eastern nation Tajikistan. Sixteen years after the collapse of communism, the former Soviet republic may have the last laugh, as it sits atop immense water resources, which if properly utilized will allow it to generate surplus energy for export and negotiate lucrative ... more |
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Manila (AFP) Aug 10, 2007The world's top rice expert warned here Friday of "worrisome signs," with high prices for rice and fertiliser and stocks at their lowest levels for about 30 years. Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), said new farm technologies were needed to replicate the gains made from the "Green Revolution," which had lifted hundreds of millions of rural A ... more Spectre of hunger looms over flood-hit India 
Madhubani, India, Aug 11, 2007 Senior bureaucrat Nibha Thakur ran short of cash as she shopped for vegetables in India's eastern Bihar state, where severe floods have pushed basic food prices beyond the reach of millions. "Survival is now a major issue," said Thakur, lugging a bagful of potatoes she had just purchased at four times their cost last month. "We may just have to do with boiled rice in the coming days as e ... more Rain Forest Protection Works In Peru 
Stanford, CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2007A new regional study shows that land-use policies in Peru have been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology led an international effort to analyze seven years of high-resolution satellite data covering most (79%) of the Peruvian Amazon for their findings. The work is published in the August 9, ... more Humans not proven to cause global warming: Australian MPs 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 13, 2007Scientists have yet to prove that human activity causes global warming, a point other planets in the solar system may exemplify, a group of Australian legislators said Monday. Warming was a recurring natural phenomenon and had been observed on other planets, including Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and Neptune, the four backbenchers said in a dissenting chapter in a parliamentary report related to cli ... more
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