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France unveils blueprint for green revolution Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2007 
Green taxes on gas-guzzling cars, lower speed caps on highways and eco-labels on supermarket food: French campaigners and businesses on Thursday unveiled a blueprint for a green revolution ahead of a high-profile environmental summit.
Big business, trade unions, government and environmental groups have been pulled together for the first time to draw up a green master plan, to be put to a pub ... read more
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Analysis: Nigerian rebels end cease-fire
Miami (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Nigeria's leading militant group threatened to resume attacks on foreign and domestic oil and gas operations following a four-month cease-fire intended to allow the new president to make good on vows to reform the petroleum sector and root out corruption. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta earlier this week sent a communique to media stating its intention to resume att ... more Major emitters gather for US-led forum 
Washington (AFP) Sept 26, 2007The United States on Thursday was launching talks among the world's biggest greenhouse-gas polluters in the quest to spur action against dangerous climate change. Representatives from leading industrial and emerging economies, the UN and European Union (EU) were to meet for two days under the chairmanship of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President George W. Bush, who proposed t ... more Kohl's Activates Largest Rooftop Solar Rollout In US History 
Laguna Niguel CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Kohl's Department Stores have flipped the switch on a rooftop solar energy system at its Laguna Niguel store as part of the largest planned U.S. photovoltaic solar rollout to date. Michael R. Peevey, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, joined Kohl's to celebrate this significant step toward the building of solar electric systems at 63 of Kohl's 80 California locations, which ... more Analysis: TAP pipeline a fantasy 
Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the Caspian's vast hydrocarbon reserves, estimated by the U.S. Energy Information Administration at proven reserves of 17 billion to 49 billion barrels of oil; proven natural gas reserves are e ... more Analysis: Gas, oil get Myanmar off hook 
Washington (UPI) Sep 27, 2007 Despite international condemnation of the Myanmarese government, competition for oil and gas will likely limit pressure on it from China and others in the region. "A humanitarian catastrophe might shift Chinese behavior, but right now Beijing probably believes that access to Burma's energy potential and its strategic location still outweigh the political costs," said Roberto M. Herrera- ... more |
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Long Beach, CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007The first thing I noticed at the Solar Power 2007 show was the trouble finding a parking spot. Compared to solar shows in the past this event seemed to mark the break-out of the solar industry into the mainstream. What was even better is that the true solar geeks looked like they were in charge and almost giddy that the solar industry had come of age. ... more Aircraft And Automobiles Thrive In Hurricane-Force Winds At Lockheed Martin 
Marietta GA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Lockheed Martin celebrated 40 years of aircraft testing in its Low Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT). On this date in 1967, the first aircraft test, a crew egress trial for the C-5A Galaxy, was conducted. As one of a handful of large subsonic wind tunnels in the country, the Marietta wind tunnel has logged 104,800 hours of testing large scale aircraft models, full-scale automobiles, race cars and structu ... more Howard Plays Down Drought Causes As Fire Risk Blows Out 300 Percent 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 26, 2007Prime Minister John Howard warned against linking Australia's worst drought on record to doomsday forecasts about climate change Wednesday, saying "a sense of proportion" was needed. A day after announcing a major aid package for drought-hit farmers, Howard played down the link between climate change and the "Big Dry." "Even the most pessimistic predictions about climate change, which I ... more Cave Records Provide Clues To Climate Change 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007When Georgia Tech Assistant Professor Kim Cobb and graduate student Jud Partin wanted to understand the mechanisms that drove the abrupt climate change events that occurred thousands of years ago, they didn't drill for ice cores from the glaciers of Greenland or the icy plains of Antarctica, as is customary for paleoclimatolgists. Instead, they went underground. Growing inside the caves of ... more |
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Atlanta (SPX) Sept 25, 2007GE Energy announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire a minority equity interest in PrimeStar Solar, Inc., an emerging solar thin-film technology and manufacturing company. PrimeStar Solar, headquartered in Golden, Colo., was formed in June 2006 to develop and commercialize thin-film photovoltaic modules. The company has 31 employees, including a core management team with more than 100 ... more New Delft Material Concept For Aircraft Wings Could Save Billions 
Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 27, 2007Building aircraft wings with a special aluminium fibre combination makes them nearly immune to metal fatigue. The application of this technology, partly developed at Delft University of Technology, will lead to substantial savings. The unusual qualities of this special material (called CentrAl, an abbreviation of Central Reinforced Aluminium) can make a significant contribution to the developmen ... more SolarCity Community Solar Program Draws 500 installs, 2 MW Of Electricity 
Foster City (SPX) Sept 25, 2007SolarCity announced that the company's customers have adopted two megawatts of solar electricity in the past 10 months through SolarCity's unique Community Solar Programs. These purchases have come from more than 500 families in 19 cities and towns. In less than a year, SolarCity has sold two megawatts of power through communities across California, including: Portola Valley, Woodside, Mountain ... more Interview: J. Jay Park on the Iraq oil law 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Sep 26, 2007 J. Jay Park's work on international legal petroleum regimes has taken him around the world. He helped craft Somalia's new hydrocarbons law and has led training sessions for officials in Iraq's Oil Ministry. He also represented Western Oil Sands, a Canadian firm, in its deal with the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government. Earlier this month in Dubai, Park held a daylong workshop on ... more
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