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US army awards contract to develop truck-mounted laser weapon Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2007 
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract Friday to develop a mobile truck-mounted laser capable of destroying rockets, artillery shells and mortars, the US Army said. Northrop Grumman will be in competition with Boeing which was awarded a seven million dollar contract to develop a similar higher energy laser that can be mounted on a heavy truck. ... read more
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Dark Matter Mystery Deepens In Cosmic Train Wreck
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Astronomers have discovered a chaotic scene unlike any witnessed before in a cosmic "train wreck" between giant galaxy clusters. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes revealed a dark matter core that was mostly devoid of galaxies, which may pose problems for current theories of dark matter behavior. "These results challenge our understanding of the way clusters merge," ... more Indonesia's 'mud volcano' victims to file complaint 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 15, 2007The victims of a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia are to demand that the country's top court declare unjust a presidential decree on the terms of their compensation, they said Wednesday. Some 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of land in East Java has been inundated with sludge that began spewing when Lapindo Brantas, a company linked to Indonesia's welfare minister, was drilling for gas witho ... more The new public enemy number one: bottled water 
Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2007It's a hugely beneficial liquid in a slim cylinder of plastic, but for US environmentalists, it is the new public enemy number one: bottled water. With US bottled water sales growing nearly 10 percent annually -- and the trash from tossed containers climbing just as quickly -- calls for Americans to go back to drinking tap water have surged since the beginning of summer. ... more Irrigation May Not Cool The Globe In The Future 
Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Expansion of irrigation has masked greenhouse warming in California's Central Valley, but irrigation may not make much of a difference in the future, according to a new study in the Aug. 13 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Irrigation's influence on climate is often overlooked when studying the human effect on regional climate change. Yet, irrigation has expanded r ... more SAsia flood death toll tops 2,600 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The death toll from the worst floods in decades across South Asia rose above 2,600 Thursday, as officials were still trying to find dozens missing and feared drowned in India. Heavy monsoon rains and snow melt since late July have caused the flooding in Nepal, India and Bangladesh, with losses estimated at nearly one billion dollars and major outbreaks of water-borne disease. ... more |
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Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Plextronics announced that its organic photovoltaic technology achieved a world record in the conversion of solar light to power efficiency. The company's result of 5.4 percent establishes a new world record for single layer organic solar cells as certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in Golden, Colorado. Troy Hammond, vice president of products for Plextronics, sai ... more SolarCraft Completes Solar PV System At Ballentine Vineyards 
Novato CA (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Novato-based SolarCraft has announced that they completed design and installation of a 87 kW solar electric system for Ballentine Vineyards in St. Helena, CA. The project integrates both the winery building/tasting room and barrel storage on the property - now powered by the sun. The new system enables Ballentine Vineyards to generate enough clean electricity each day to power 60 average h ... more Meritage Homes Zero Energy New Home Community Combines Solar Power And Energy Efficiency 
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 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 |
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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 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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