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Modelling Proves No Mission Is Impossible Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2007 
Complex modelling work completed by CSIRO has helped identify and solve flow distribution problems at BP's Bulwer Island refinery, saving the company millions of dollars in operating cost. In what could be a world first, researchers used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to develop a complete, three-dimensional reactive model of a fluidised bed catalytic cracker regenerator to help identify eff ... read more
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Imagine being able to use electronic devices by simply plugging them in to your clothing. CSIRO has just received funding of A$4.4 million to help bring this possibility a step closer. CSIRO's Flexible Integrated Energy Device (FIED) was one of eight proposals selected as part of the latest round of Defence Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program funding announced last night. ... more Nine Solar Racers Have The CSIRO Advantage 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 19, 2007Nine of the forty vehicles slated to compete in this year's World Solar Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide are using a highly efficient electric motor designed by CSIRO. In the last event in 2005, only three teams had 'the CSIRO advantage'. The motor, which sits inside the wheel, was designed about ten years ago for Australia's Aurora 101 solar car. Aurora 101 raced in three of the World Solar ... more Philippines oil tankers given conversion deadline 
Manila (AFP) Oct 18, 2007All Philippine-registered ships carrying oil in local waters must have double hulls by next year or face bans, regulators ruled Thursday. The April 23, 2008 deadline would allow the Philippines to comply with an International Maritime Organisation convention and prevent maritime pollution, Maritime Industry Authority administrator Vicente Suazo said in a written order. Failure to comply ... more Spending on computer technology in 2007 to top a trillion dollars 
San Francisco (AFP) Oct 18, 2007Spending on computer technology will top a trillion dollars this year as the industry grows increasingly vital to national economies worldwide, according to a study by the technology market intelligence firm IDC released Thursday. An analysis of 82 countries and regions found that information technology (IT) businesses -- computer hardware, software and services -- are major generators of jo ... more Analysis: India seeks oil in Nigeria 
Miami (UPI) Oct 18, 2007 India is looking to Nigeria to meet its growing energy needs while increasing trade with the oil-rich nation, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said during his visit to the Nigerian capital. Singh reportedly told Nigerian lawmakers in Abuja India is seeking closer ties with Nigeria in order to boost his nation's "energy security" for years to come. India receives 11 percent ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Oct 19, 2007Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters Thursday he has not given up hope of implementing a controversial nuclear deal with the United States opposed by his party's key allies. The deal was widely viewed as dead after Singh told US President George W. Bush on Monday he was struggling to implement it, amid stiff opposition from the government's communist allies. "I have menti ... more Zippy new electric car looks like a three wheeled shoehorn 
Tallmadge, Ohio (AFP) Oct 18, 2007Tired of waiting for big auto to come up with a truly clean car, Dana Myers has developed a tiny solution to the carbon crisis. Tucked into a corner of his family's factory, behind an industrial crane and giant transformers, sits a fleet of what look like three-wheeled technicolor shoehorns. Unlike the hybrids currently on offer, his No More Gas runs entirely on electricity. And its eng ... more Brazil, west Africa agree to lobby for bio-fuels 
Ouagadougou (AFP) Oct 17, 2007Brazil and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) have agreed to push for the development and use of biofuels, the regional bloc said on Wednesday after a visit to Burkina Faso by President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva. Brazil, the world's leading ethanol supplier and the eight-nation bloc agreed to work towards the generation of biofuels in the region, said a statement from UEMOA ... more Scientists Estimate Mercury Emissions From US Fires 
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Forest fires and other blazes in the United States likely release about 30 percent as much mercury as the nation's industrial sources, according to initial estimates in a new study by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Fires in Alaska, California, Oregon, Louisiana, and Florida emit particularly large quantities of the toxic metal, and the Southeast emits more tha ... more |
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Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South ... more Walker's World: The world and the dollar 
Paris (UPI) Oct 17, 2007 The meetings in Washington this weekend of the supposed managers of the global financial system face a daunting challenge. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the central bankers and the finance ministers of the Group of 7, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the Fed's Ben Bernanke all face a common problem, but most of them have different agendas. The problem is t ... more Iran Determined To Protect Its Interests In Caspian Region 
Tehran, Iran (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2007Tehran will not sign any agreements on the status of the Caspian Sea until its national interests in the region are fully safeguarded, Iran's deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. "We will make a determined effort to protect Iran's interests in the Caspian region," Mehdi Safari said on national TV after the conclusion of the second Caspian summit in the Iranian capital. "Until Iran's national ... more US nuclear deal on, says India ruling party 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 18, 2007India's ruling Congress party said on Wednesday that a controversial nuclear deal with the United States was still on, despite stiff opposition within the coalition government. The Congress statement came two days after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told US President George Bush about "certain difficulties" in implementing the nuclear agreement. "The deal is not in cold storage an ... more
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