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Japan eyes chopsticks for biofuel Tokyo (AFP) Aug 21, 2007 
Japan will try to turn the millions of wooden chopsticks that go discarded each year into biofuel to ease the country's energy shortage, officials said Wednesday. Biofuels are seen as an alternative clean energy resource that can reduce dependence on Middle East oil and lessen the impact of global warming. Japan has virtually no natural energy resources of its own. ... read more
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India to push ahead with IAEA nuke negotiations: report
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 21, 2007The Indian government indicated it would push ahead with a controversial Indo-US nuclear deal despite strong objections from its communist allies, the Press Trust of India reported on Tuesday. Asked whether India would open talks in September with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the next step towards implementing the deal, a spokesman of the ruling Congress party replied "our ... more Nuclear energy safety on top of ASEAN energy ministers' agenda 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 22, 2007Nuclear safety issues are expected to feature prominently in talks among Southeast Asian ministers here Thursday as more countries look to nuclear as an alternative energy amid soaring oil prices, diplomatic sources said. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) energy ministers will hold the one-day meeting -- first among themselves and then with counterparts from China, Japan and ... more Uganda's Museveni launches 770 million-dollar power project 
Naminya, Uganda (AFP) Aug 21, 2007Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Tuesday launched construction work for a new 770-million-dollar (571 million euro) hydro-power plant that had been plagued by environmental concerns. The 250-megawatts plant, expected to easy power crisis in the country, will take about 44 months to complete. Two plants currently produce 380 megawatts. Donors are contributing 750 million dollars while ... more IEA concerned about hurricane's impact on Mexico oil production 
Paris (AFP) Aug 21, 2007The International Energy Agency is slightly concerned about the impact on local oil production when Hurricane Dean hits Mexico but believes its passage will not affect global oil markets, an IEA official said on Tuesday. "What could worry us a bit is that it will pass over Mexican production," William Ramsay, the deputy executive director of the IEA told French radio BFM. ... more Nissan to put fuel efficiency gauge in all new models 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 21, 2007Japan's Nissan Motor Co. announced Tuesday plans to install a fuel efficiency gauge in all future new models in its latest effort to tap growing interest in energy-saving motoring. Nissan said that based on its own tests it estimates the gauge could cut fuel consumption by an average 10 percent as drivers improve their "eco-driving habits" in response to the real-time gauge readings. ... more |
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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 |
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University Park PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2007A variety of end products including jet fuel, gasoline, carbon anodes and heating oil may be possible using existing refineries and combinations of coal and refinery by-products, according to a team of Penn State researchers. "One idea is based on the coal-to-jet fuel work that we have been doing for a long time," says Caroline E. Burgess Clifford, research associate at Penn State's Energy ... more Asia-Pacific bears brunt of disasters in recent years 
Sydney (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Asia-Pacific countries accounted for 90 percent of people affected by natural disasters around the world since 2000, the region's emergency management chiefs were told Monday. Climate change and population growth were likely to increase the incidence and severity of the disasters, which already affect about 250 million people globally each year, said UN expert Terje Skavdal. The Asia-Pac ... more Walker's World: Do we face another 1931? 
Washington (UPI) Aug 20, 2007 The bad news is that the market turmoil could get worse, a great deal worse, despite the Fed's lowering of the discount rate Friday that spurred the Dow Jones to jump by 230 points. The good news is that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an academic expert on the Great Depression of the 1930s, and he's pretty sure he knows what not to do. Bernanke, who once wrote that "to ... more ASEAN urged to muster political will to deal with forest fire haze 
Singapore (AFP) Aug 20, 2007Southeast Asian leaders were urged Monday to muster the political will to tackle the problem of forest fire haze that blankets the region regularly during their summit in Singapore later this year. Regional think tanks, environmental groups and academics said the smog -- caused mainly by burnings in Indonesia --- is contributing significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions and could impa ... more
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