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Poland wants lion's share of planned Lithuanian nuclear plant's output Vilnius (AFP) Oct 5, 2007 
Poland said Friday that it wants the lion's share of the output of a new nuclear power plant that it plans to build in a joint project with the Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Polish Economy minister Piotr Wozniak, who was visiting Vilnius, hinted that Warsaw could go slow on other power projects if it did not get its way on the planned Lithuanian-based facility.
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Canadian Solar And Luoyang Polysilicon Complete First BIPV Solar Glass Roof System
Jiangsu, China (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Canadian Solar has completed the first BIPV solar glass roof system, with glass-on-glass solar modules, in Henan Province in collaboration with China's Luoyang Polysilicon Company. CSI was the sole supplier of the solar glass technology, the specialty BIPV modules, and acted as the integrator of the complete solar power system. The BIPV solar glass system, covering approximately 293 square ... more New Transparent Plastic Strong As Steel 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Oct 08, 2007By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It's made of layers of clay nanosheets and a water-soluble polymer that shares chemistry with white glue. Engineering professor Nicholas Kotov almost dubbed it "plastic steel," but the new material isn' ... more Analysis: C. Asia's last oil, gas frontier 
Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 While Western attention in the search for hydrocarbons in the Commonwealth of Independent States has until now focused largely on the Caspian Sea, the race is heating up to exploit Central Asia's last significant body of water, the Aral Sea. Unlike the Caspian, the subject of rancorous debate among Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan, the Aral's waters are divided sole ... more China's CNPC invests in oil refinery in Chad 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 6, 2007China's largest oil producer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), has agreed to invest in a joint venture oil refinery near the capital of Chad, state media reported Saturday. A subsidiary of CNPC, the CNPC Service and Engineering Ltd, has signed an agreement with the central African country's government to jointly invest in a refinery company to the north of the capital N'Djamena, Xinhua ... more Iran says oilfields 'too attractive' for France to quit 
Tehran (AFP) Oct 6, 2007Iran on Saturday rejected the possibility of a French investors' pullout of its oil and gas sector amid calls by Paris for tougher sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear programme, the ISNA news agency reported. "Iran's resources and market are too attractive for the French to give up," deputy oil minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said. He was commenting on whether French oil and gas companie ... more |
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Aliso Viejo CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2007XsunX reports that its Solar Module Reservation Program was well received at the Solar Power 2007 Conference and Trade Show in Long Beach, California by solar system integrators, installers, green field operators, and utilities working to grow their businesses within a capacity constrained industry. At the trade show, XsunX met with interested solar system integrators, installers, green fi ... more LDK Solar Signs Wafers Supply Agreement With Solartech Energy Corp 
Xinyu City, China (SPX) Oct 08, 2007LDK Solar Co., Ltd., a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers has signed a five-year contract to supply multicrystalline solar wafers to Taiwan-based Solartech Energy Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, pricing is fixed for the first three years. During this period, LDK Solar will deliver multicrystalline solar wafers to Solartech valued at approximately US$224 million with in ... more Little progress in talks over US nuclear deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 5, 2007India's ruling Congress party made little progress in fresh talks Friday with its communist allies with whom it is locked in a bitter row over a nuclear deal with the United States, its leaders said. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee described the talks as "cordial" and said the two sides will meet again on Tuesday. "The meeting carried forward earlier discussions on the basis of inputs ... more Sunpower And Agilent Technologies To Install 1-Megawatt Solar System In Santa Rosa 
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Oct 08, 2007SunPower and Agilent Technologies will jointly install a 1-megawatt solar tracking system at Agilent's Santa Rosa, Calif., campus. SunPower solar panels are being installed on top of a canopy structure in the campus parking lot, providing both shade in the lot and solar electric power for the facility. SunPower's tracking solar system design will generate up to 25 percent more energy for A ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 5, 2007 Since 1991 the United States and Russia have been involved in a conflict to exploit the Caspian's vast energy reserves. Now, however, Moscow seems to be gaining the upper hand by proposing an agenda with neighboring Kazakhstan that could see the issue of Caspian energy exports westward largely dominated by Russia for the next three to five decades. A hint of the grandiosity of the propo ... more ESA Pays Tribute To 50 Years Of Space 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 05, 2007Fifty years ago today, on the night of 4 October, the first 'beep-beep' from Sputnik fell from the heavens and marked the beginning of a new era for the human race. Satellites and space probes have dramatically changed our way of living, they have turned the world into a global village where an unprecedented wealth of information is at hand anywhere, anytime. The world has shrunk, and our percep ... more International Space University To Establish Scholarship Commemorating Space Industry's Golden Jubilee 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007On October 4, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the International Space University (ISU) will be conducting a 10-day auction on eBay of unusual and interesting Space-related and Sputnik/Apollo era items. Turn your office or home into a museum, dine with an astronaut, party with a movie director, attend a rocket launch, own priceless books and memorabilia, send a payload to orbit, ... more Australia approves major pulp mill despite environment fears 
Sydney (AFP) Oct 4, 2007The Australian government approved Thursday plans for a controversial multi-billion-dollar pulp mill in Tasmania despite objections it could ruin one of the country's most pristine environments. Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the proposed two-billion-dollar (1.7-billion-US) mill would have to meet stringent environmental conditions, but activists said the approval was a "tragedy" ... more
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