New York's yellow cabs brake for strike
New York (AFP) Sept 5, 2007
Thousands of New York's taxi drivers on Wednesday put on the brakes with a 48-hour strike just as the US Open tennis tournament moved toward a climax and the city's Fashion Week started up. Passengers took to the subway or shared rides in lighter-than-usual traffic as drivers of the city's signature yellow cabs halted work in anger at plans to introduce satellite positioning systems in ... read more
Half-price Big Mac to fight global warming proves big hit in Japan
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 5, 2007
A Japanese government website crashed Wednesday as people raced to take up an offer of a half-price McDonald's hamburger in exchange for pledging to fight global warming. The Japanese unit of the US burger giant Tuesday offered a Big Mac for 150 yen (1.3 dollars), about half the normal price, to anyone demonstrating a commitment to preventing climate change. People were asked to ... more
Synova-Manz Automation Partnership Unveils Fully Automated Photovoltaic Manufacturing System For Edge Isolation
Milan, Italy (SPX) Sep 06, 2007
EU PVSEC -- Manz Automation AG (Reutlingen, Germany) and Synova SA has unveiled the ILE 2400, an inline laser edge isolation system for photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing of mono- and multi-crystalline solar cells. Integrated with Synova's proprietary water jet-guided laser technology -- Laser MicroJet -- the enables manufacturers to effectively isolate the edge of PV cells to prevent short ... more
Oil and security for Iraq investors
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 5, 2007
Security in Iraq is a major holdup to investment there, sometimes second only to the lack of a law governing Iraq's vast oil and gas reserves.
Various security plans, by Iraqi and U.S. forces, are intended to break the cycle of violence, but little of the ambitions for Iraq's future will take hold until its citizens face fewer day-to-day threats to their lives.
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World PV Leaders To Gather In Milan
Milan, Italy (SPX) Sep 06, 2007
Worldwide leaders in the PV industry will be gathering in Milan, Italy from September 3rd-7th, 2007 for the 22nd annual European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference. In recent years, Germany has become a popular destination for PV investments and the country's investment promotion agency, Invest in Germany, will be on hand in Milan to outline advantages of a PV investment in Germany. ... more
Australia And China Partner For A Low-Emission Energy Future
Newcastle, Australia (SPX) Sep 06, 2007
Australia and China today signed a partnership agreement that will pave the way for the installation of low-emission coal energy technology in Beijing next year. Signed by CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, and Mr Li Xiaopeng, the President of China's state-owned energy enterprise, the China Huaneng Group, the agreement will see a post combustion capture pilot plant installed at the ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
Areva pledges commitment to peace in Niger's uranium zone
FROTH AND BUBBLE
MIT Unraveling Secrets Of Red Tide
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Malaysia culls 50,000 pigs over smell, pollution
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America Regains Leadership With World Record
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Sep 05, 2007
The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful accelerator based source of neutrons for scientific research. The SNS surpassed the previous record of 160 kilowatts for beam power, held by the United Kingdom's ISIS facility, while operating at 183 kilowatts.
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Grain Will Not Become Oil
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 05, 2007
Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in ... more
Composite Technology's DeWind Announces Texas Wind Turbine Demonstration Site
Irvine CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007
Composite Technology has announced that is its subsidiary DeWind, in association with Texas State Technical College (TSTC), has signed a Memorandum of Intent with the City of Sweetwater to establish a Wind Turbine Demonstration Site on city owned land. DeWind will install its 2 megawatt 60Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype on the site in the Fall of 2007. Further development and prototype turbines will ... more
Committee to review Indian left's objections to US nuke deal
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 4, 2007
India's foreign minister will head a committee set up by the Congress party-led government to review objections by communist allies to a controversial nuclear deal with the US, reports said Tuesday. The pact seeks to bring India into the loop of global atomic commerce after a gap of three decades, but the leftist parties, which oppose strategic ties with Washington, say the nuclear ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Thousands without power as California sizzles
CIVIL NUCLEAR
Japanese nuclear plant reports minor leak
ENERGY TECH
The 5 Ws Of Corn Production
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Iraq oil law (still) coming soon
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 4, 2007
The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with Iraq's industry chiefs, politicians and technocrats: When will Baghdad set the ground rules for the international oil community's long-awaited venture into the largest oil prize on Earth?
The answer, evenly nuanced, is clear: A version of the ... more
Six groups shortlisted for Bulgarian nuclear plant partnership
Milan (AFP) Sept 4, 2007
Six companies have been shortlisted to take part in a joint venture to build a 7.0-billion-euro (9.5-billion-dollar) nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, Italian press reports said on Tuesday. Italian energy group Enel has been chosen as well as Electricite de France, the Belgian group Electrabel, Germany power groups EON and RWE, and CEZ of the Czech Republic, Il Corriere della Sera reported ... more
Boeing-Led Airborne Laser Team Completes Low Power Flight Tests
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 04, 2007
Boeing, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated in flight tests that the Airborne Laser's battle management and beam control/fire control systems can complete the full series of steps required to support a ballistic missile intercept. During these "low power" tests, which concluded Aug. 23, the modified Boeing 747-400F operated from Edwards Air ... more
Russia's Putin, tycoons heading to Australia
Sydney (AFP) Sept 3, 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country's most prominent tycoons are set to fly to Australia on Friday amid speculation that Canberra is poised to sign a deal to sell uranium to Moscow. Media reports said a uranium deal could be signed Friday, when the Russian leader makes a one-day official visit before taking part in the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit on ... more
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SUPERPOWERS
Russia draws 'red line' on Kosovo, US missile defence
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Japan holds disaster drills to prepare for big quake
CLIMATE SCIENCE
NASA Study Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming
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