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Space Solar Energy Has Future Washington DC (USINFO) Aug 21, 2007 
Beam solar energy directly from space, and disaster relief expeditions could power all their equipment with no more than a few portable antennas and converters. Campers could use such energy to cook dinners using nothing more than a cell phone-like device. But the primary beneficiaries of such a technological feat would be the many communities that would be able to tap into space solar energy fe ... read more
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Indian govt grapples with US nuclear deal gridlock
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2007A nuclear cooperation accord between India and the United States was billed as historic for bringing New Delhi into the nuclear fold and delivering energy security, but it may now threaten the Indian government. India's ruling Congress party and its communist allies are at loggerheads over the issue, with neither side willing to back down. Early elections could be on the cards if the Mar ... more Oil prices fall as Dean moves away from US oil facilities 
New York (AFP) Aug 20, 2007World oil prices declined Monday as critical US energy production facilities in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico looked set to dodge any potential danger from Hurricane Dean, traders said. Dean was swirling across the Caribbean Sea toward Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Although US producers heaved a sigh of relief, Mexico's offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico is on high alert and co ... more Mexico shuts down oil installations ahead of hurricane's landfall 
Mexico (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Mexico's state oil company PEMEX said on Monday it shut down all its facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and evacuated all staff from its rigs and platforms ahead of the anticipated landfall of Hurricane Dean. Petroleos Mexicanos said it shut down all 140 facilities. Forecasters expect Dean to slam ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast before dawn on Tuesday and cross the Yucatan Peninsula to ... more Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Performance Of Solar Cells 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Placing a film of silicon nanoparticles onto a silicon solar cell can boost power, reduce heat and prolong the cell's life, researchers now report. "Integrating a high-quality film of silicon nanoparticles 1 nanometer in size directly onto silicon solar cells improves power performance by 60 percent in the ultraviolet range of the spectrum," said Munir Nayfeh, a physicist at the University of Il ... more Coal And Black Liquor Can Produce Energy From Papermaking 
University Park PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2007Adding a little coal and processing the papermaking industry's black liquor waste into synthesis gas is a better choice than burning it for heat, improves the carbon footprint of coal-to-liquid processes, and can produce a fuel versatile enough to run a cooking stove or a truck, according to a team of Penn state engineers. "Black liquor is routinely burned in a recovery boiler," says Andre ... more |
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Pisco, Peru (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Bulldozers moved in Monday to tear down the ruins of shattered buildings in this quake-hit Peruvian town, starting with the main church, which has come to symbolize the country's tragedy. Operations also began to fumigate whole sectors of the town to head off diseases before they turn into possible epidemics. More than 1,000 police and soldiers have also been deployed to halt the looting ... more Jamaica mops up after a beating from hurricane Dean 
Kingston (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Jamaicans began a massive clean-up Monday after Hurricane Dean slammed into the island, killing one person, toppling trees and power lines and whipping up giant waves which flooded low areas. Scenes of devastation greeted residents of the Caribbean tourist hot-spot as they emerged red-eyed from a sleepless night, the sounds of the roaring winds and driving rains still pounding in their ears. ... more Scientists seek new ways to feed the world amid global warming 
Los Banos, Philippines (AFP) Aug 17, 2007On an agricultural research station south of Manila a group of scientists are battling against time to breed new varieties of rice as global warming threatens one of the world's major sources of food. According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) more than half the world's 6.6 billion people depend on rice for nourishment. "Parts of the world will become drier and apparen ... more First All-African GM Crop Is Resistant To Maize Streak Virus 
Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Aug 20, 2007The first all-African genetically modified crop plant with resistance to the severe maize streak virus (MSV), which seriously reduces the continent's maize yield, has been developed by scientists from the University of Cape Town and PANNAR PTY Ltd, a South African seed company. The research, published in Plant Biotechnology Journal represents a significant advance in African agricultural b ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 18, 2007The death toll from the collapse of a new bridge in central China has risen to 64, state media reported late Saturday, as rescuers recovered more bodies from underneath the massive piles of debris. The 328-metre (1,076-foot) bridge over the Tuo river in Hunan province crumbled on Monday as workers were removing steel scaffolding erected during its construction, the government said earlier. ... more Yemen says foreign firms to build nuclear reactor 
Sanaa (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Yemen's energy minister said on Sunday that international companies would build a nuclear reactor in the impoverished Arabian peninsula state, the official Saba news agency reported. "International companies will undertake building... the nuclear reactor that Yemen aspires to own for peaceful purposes of producing electricity," Mustafa Yahia Bahran said. He did not give details about the ... more Great powers cast bids for strategic Central Asia 
Bishkek (AFP) Aug 19, 2007In the titanic contest for power over Central Asia between China, Russia and the United States, Akmamat Kasimov's market stall must be the smallest battlefield. At the heart of the teeming Kayal market in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, he hawks military uniforms from all three protagonists of a 19th century-style Great Game for control of the strategic region. Just 400 som, or 10.5 dollars, ... more Indian uranium deal as good as NPT: Australia 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 17, 2007Prime Minister John Howard on Friday defended Australia's landmark deal to sell uranium to nuclear power India, saying its safeguards were as strong as the international anti-proliferation treaty. The in-principle deal reached Thursday has been widely criticised, as India has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has nuclear weapons. India is involved in a long-running nuclea ... more
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