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Political tensions mount in India over US nuclear deal New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007 
Tensions in India over a civil nuclear pact with Washington that threaten the survival of the country's ruling coalition worsened on Monday ahead of a visit by the UN's atomic energy chief.
The nuclear deal, if implemented, would allow energy-hungry India to buy civilian nuclear technology while possessing nuclear weapons, despite not having signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Researcher Studies What Makes Quantum Dots Blink
Argonne IL (SPX) Oct 09, 2007In order to learn more about the origins of quantum dot blinking, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology have developed a method to characterize it on faster time scales than have previously been accessed. Nanocrystals of semiconductor material, also known as quantum dots, are being intens ... more Carbon-heavy growth 'suicide' for India, says climate expert 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 9, 2007High incomes and high carbon dioxide emissions go hand-in-hand all over the world, but the head of the globe's top scientific body on climate change says India can be different. India is drafting a climate change strategy due next month, ahead of a key United Nations meeting in Bali, Indonesia, in December to begin talks on post-2012 emissions-cuts commitments. "India shouldn't emulate t ... more General Motors To Make 250,000 Chevrolets Per Year In Uzbekistan 
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (SPX) Oct 09, 2007U.S. auto giant General Motors and Korean-Uzbek car manufacturer UzDaewooAvto have set up a joint venture to produce up to 250,000 Chevrolet cars a year in Uzbekistan, company officials said Monday. General Motors will hold 25% plus one share in the new company, with an option to increase its stake in the JV to 40%. Carl Peter Foster, president of GM-Europe, said Chevrolet has become the m ... more Locally Generated Electricity Can Pay For Itself Within Five Years 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Research and Markets has announced the addition of Micro Generation of Energy in the Home to their offering. This home energy book details how locally generated electricity pays for itself within five years and immediately helps to avoid global warming. The Online Return on Investment (ROI) analysis tool, included in the cost of the book, allows the personalization of energy inputs for every sit ... more Wind Power Cost Is Expected To Reduce By 30 Percent By 2010 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 09, 2007Research and Markets has announced the addition of "China Wind Power Equipment Manufacturing Report 2007" to their offering. Improved technologies and increased output results in wind power cost to continuously drop, to a nickel/kilowatt-hour. Wind power cost is expected to further reduce by 30% by 2010, which has been close to the regular energy cost. In 2006, newly-increased installed capacity ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2007More than a million Made-in-China Boy Scout badges are being recalled for having unacceptably high lead levels, a US scouting spokesman said Friday. "During a routine test of products, Boy Scouts of America found that one component of a totem, a cub scout recognition item, contains unacceptable amounts of lead" said Gregg Shields, a spokesman for the Dallas, Texas-based group. There was ... more UNC Faculty And Students To Develop Plan To Get Clean Water In Poorer Homes 
Chapel Hill IN (SPX) Oct 08, 2007Faculty and students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are setting out to discover whether applying business principles to public health problems can result in solutions that will save lives in developing countries with limited access to safe drinking water. The Carolina Global Water Partnership has been established to bring together experts from UNC's School of Public Health, ... more Water companies need to adapt to climate change: experts 
Amsterdam (AFP) Oct 5, 2007Water management companies will face huge challenges due to climate change and need to start adapting their strategies, experts warned in Amsterdam on Friday. "Whatever we do in mitigation (trying to cut carbon emissions), global warming will still happen so we have to look at adaptation" to a higher global mean temperature, said Professor Paul Kabat, of Wageningen University in the Netherla ... more US Lacks Data On Supply Of Minerals Critical To Economy And National Security 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2007To make the products people use every day, from mobile phones and computers to toothpaste, TVs, and cars, the United States relies on a variety of nonfuel minerals that have limited global availability. However, a new report from the National Research Council finds that neither the federal government nor industry leaders have enough accurate information to know how secure the supplies of these m ... more |
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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 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 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
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