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Solar Power 2007 Dazzles Exhibitors and Visitors Long Beach, CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2007 
The 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. According to the list of exhibitors on the ... read more
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Toyota says new fuel-cell car can go further on single tank
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 28, 2007Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday that its new hydrogen powered fuel-cell car had successfully completed a long-distance road test and was shown to be 25 percent more fuel efficient than earlier versions. The FCHV vehicle was driven about 560 kilometers (350 miles) on a single fueling and finished with 30 percent of the hydrogen still in the tank, said Yoshihiko Masuda, who heads Toyota's fuel- ... more Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy enters Chinese nuclear power market 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 28, 2007Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is making a full-scale entry into China's growing market for nuclear power generation as it has won a major order there, the company said Friday. China's demand for nuclear power generation is increasing as the booming economy consumes more and more energy but needs to curtail air pollution. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has won an order from Sanmen ... more Indian communist leader vows no compromise on US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 29, 2007Veteran Indian communist leader Jyoti Basu ruled out on Saturday "any compromise" with the government over a landmark nuclear deal with the US amid growing speculation about mid-term elections. India's communists have been putting pressure on the minority Congress government, saying they will do "whatever necessary" to stop it from implementing the civilian technology deal with the "imperial ... more World's first commercial nuclear plant demolished 
London (AFP) Sept 29, 2007Demolition experts blew up Saturday the giant cooling towers of the world's first commercial nuclear power station, 51 years after it was opened in northwest England. The first two of the four 88-metre (288-foot) high cooling towers at Sellafield were demolished at 9 a.m. (0800 GMT), sending a cloud of dust over the Irish Sea before hundreds of onlookers. Four minutes later the final pai ... more Fire breaks out at Japanese nuclear plant construction site 
Tokyo (AFP) Sept 29, 2007A minor fire broke out at a nuclear power plant construction site in northern Japan on Saturday but there was no danger of radiation leakage, an official said. No one was hurt in the small fire at a half-built reactor at Tomari Nuclear Power Plant on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido, which is scheduled to be tested early next year. "A guard found white smoke coming out of textile shee ... more |
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Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Analyses conducted by researchers from Universite Laval's Center for Northern Studies reveal that the continent's northernmost lake is affected by climate change. In an article to be published in the September 28 edition of Geophysical Research Letters, the international research team led by Universite Laval scientists Warwick Vincent and Reinhard Pienitz reports that aquatic life in Ward Hunt L ... more President of Rwanda Announces Historic Forest Protection Project 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Rwandan President H. E. Paul Kagame unveiled his country's first national conservation park to promote reforestation and conservation, and research to enhance knowledge of the world's rapidly diminishing number of great apes. In collaboration with Ted Townsend, founder of Earthpark and Great Ape Trust of Iowa, President Kagame announced at the Clinton Global Initiative a joint 10-year program ca ... more Joint Venture To Strengthen Cotton Breeding 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 28, 2007CSIRO Plant Industry and Cotton Seed Distributors Ltd (CSD) announced the Cotton Breeding Australia joint venture, to fund cotton breeding and targeted research for a 10-year initial term. Both parties will contribute A$2 million per annum for research, with CSD also co-funding the cotton breeding work previously co-funded by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC). The firs ... more Northrop Grumman Completes Implementation Of Los Angeles Emergency Communication System 
Mclean VA (SPX) Sep 28, 2007Northrop Grumman has completed the installation of a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system for improved emergency response for the City of Los Angeles. Northrop Grumman's Information Technology (IT) sector led the seven-year migration of the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) legacy CAD system to an enhanced emergency command control communications system. The implementation included a ne ... more |
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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 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 Solar Power 2007 Dazzles Exhibitors And Visitors 
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 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
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