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Japan's Showa Shell to build solar battery plant Tokyo (AFP) Aug 15, 2007 
Oil firm Showa Shell Sekiyu said Wednesday it will build one of the world's biggest factories for next generation solar batteries in Japan. The Japanese firm, part of Royal Dutch Shell group, will spend 15 billion yen (128 million dollars) to build the factory to make thin-film based "CIS solar batteries," the company said. The factory, which will start operation in 2009, will have an an ... read more
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US to scrap nuclear deal if India tests weapons
Washington (AFP) Aug 14, 2007The United States will scrap a landmark deal to export civilian nuclear fuel and technology to India if New Delhi conducts an atomic weapons test, the State Department said Tuesday. The statement came as the two governments gave different interpretations of the controversial nuclear deal's recently adopted operating agreement, also known as the 123 agreement. ... more Spire And Gloria Solar Establish PV Systems Business 
Bedford MA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Spire announced that it has finalized with Gloria Solar Co., Ltd. (Gloria Solar), of Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China, an affiliate of E-TON Solar Tech Co., Ltd., a joint venture (Joint Venture) to address the domestic solar photovoltaic (PV) systems market. The Joint Venture's business will be named Gloria Spire Solar, LLC, and it will headquarter its operations in Bedford, Massachusetts. ... more New NanoMarkets Report Predicts 7 Billion Dollar Thin-Film Photovoltaics Market By 2015 
Glen Allen VA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007The world thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) market is forecast to reach $7.2 billion by 2015, compared to just over $1.0 billion today, according to a new report from NanoMarkets LC, an industry analyst firm based here. Additional details about the report are available on the firm's website The market is being driven by th ... more Solar Technology Partnership Aids Local Non-Profit Project Open Hand 
Foster City CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Project Open Hand and Foster City-based solar installer SolarCity have announced their partnership to launch an innovative matching program. The unique project highlights the potential of solar power technology to help control operating costs for non-profits and kicks-off at the Plate to Plate 5K Run/Walk Sunday, August 12, 2007. Project Open Hand is the second of many more solar projects ... more Australia defends uranium sale to India 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 16, 2007Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday defended his government's decision to lift a ban on uranium sales to India, likening it to plans to sell the nuclear fuel to China. Howard said he had struck an agreement to sell uranium to New Delhi in a telephone conversation with his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh. "Australia has decided in principle to export uranium to India, subj ... more |
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Vacaville CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Meritage Homes has opened a new home community in Vacaville, Calif. that features solar electric power systems from SunPower Corporation as a standard feature. The homes are also built to exceed State and Federal energy efficiency standards by 35 percent or more. Meritage expects that the solar power systems, combined with the energy efficient features, will save homeowners up to 70 percent on t ... more Outside View: CANDU can't do 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 Politicians in Kiev are busy looking for an alternative to Russia as a builder of nuclear power plants. At any rate, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk hastened to announce after a meeting last week with his Canadian counterpart, Peter Gordon MacKay, that Ukraine was resuming talks with Canadian companies on the construction of CANDU -- Canada Deuterium Uranium -- nuclear reac ... more Nuclear Power In Space - Part 2 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007Nuclear power could greatly contribute to spacecraft capabilities. The Soviet Union first developed nuclear powered generators for spacecraft in the 1960s. Since 1970 it has launched more than 30 military radar satellites equipped with the Buk unit, which can generate up to 3 kW of electricity. In 1987-1988, the Topol unit (Topaz), with a generating capacity of 6 kW, was successfully fligh ... more China And The Dollar Crisis 
Washington (UPI) Aug 15, 2007 Bouncing up and down like a yo-yo, the world's stock markets continue their strange gyrations. Japan's Nikkei recovers at dawn after it wakes to a rising Dow Jones index, and London and Frankfurt breathe an audible sigh of relief but then New York plunges again. Worries about home loans in Detroit and Houston make French banks close their funds and push Germans toward bankruptcy, in a g ... more |
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Cornell NY (SPX) Aug 16, 2007About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billio ... more The Limited Carbon Market Puts 20 Percent Of Tropical Forest At Risk 
Arlington VI (SPX) Aug 16, 2007In an ironic twist, 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of an emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change. A study published Tuesday in the Public Library of Science Biology journal warns that the "high forest cover with low rates of deforestation" (HFLD) nations could become ... more Climate Change Isolates Rocky Mountain Butterflies 
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Expanding forests in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are slowly isolating groups of alpine butterflies from each other, which may lead to the extinction of the colourful insects in some areas, says a new study from the University of Alberta. A rising tree line in the Rockies due to global warming, and a policy not to initiate "prescribed burns" (intentionally started, controlled fires) in order to ... more Physicist Takes A Trip to Nuclear Island Of Inversion 
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Far from the everyday world occupied by such common elements such as gold and lead lies a little-understood realm inhabited by radioactive, or unstable, elements. Recently, a nuclear physicist from Florida State University collaborated with other scientists from the United States, Japan and England in an experiment that illustrated how the "normal" rules of physics don't apply for some of these ... more
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