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Energy poses major 21st century crisis: scientists Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2007 
Energy poses one of the greatest threats facing humanity this century, the world's leading academies of science warned Monday, highlighting the peril of oil wars and climate change driven by addiction to fossil fuels.
Nations must provide power for the 1.6 billion people who live without electricity and wean themselves off energy sources that stoke global warming and geopolitical conflict, t ... read more
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Analysis: Turkey-Iraq fight won't harm oil
Washington (UPI) Oct 22, 2007 As Turkey's military bares its teeth across the border with Iraq, oil prices sit comfortably above the $80-per-barrel mark. Any incursion will likely not affect the work of Iraq's oil sector today but could stifle investment, especially in the KRG, and put Turkey's oil sector -- a vital transit route for the world's oil supply -- at risk. "It looks like the institutional investors are l ... more Troubled government buys more time on US nuclear pact 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 22, 2007India's government indicated Monday it would hold off on implementing a controversial nuclear deal with the United States after again failing to win over sceptical coalition partners. After another round of inconclusive talks with its wavering left-wing allies, officials from the dominant Congress party said the atomic energy pact would be discussed again after another four weeks. Leader ... more Toshiba to build nuclear engineering hub 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 22, 2007Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Monday it would develop a state-of-the-art nuclear engineering facility as it forecast demand will continue to grow for atomic power plants. Toshiba said it would start work on the building next year and expected it to be open by March 2009. The facility in Yokohama, near Tokyo, will include supercalculators and three-dimensional computers to allow interactive ... more GKN Aerospace And FMW Composite Systems Combine For First Use Of TMMC Material On A Commercial Aircraft Programme 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2007GKN Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Boeing to develop and supply advanced titanium metal matrix composite (TMMC) thrust links for the Boeing 787. This represents the first use of TMMC in a commercial application. TMMC is an advanced engineered material consisting of silicon carbide fibre and titanium powder that has been diffusion bonded. This creates a hybrid material that is stiffer a ... more MIT Gel Changes Color On Demand 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Oct 23, 2007MIT researchers have created a new structured gel that can rapidly change color in response to a variety of stimuli, including temperature, pressure, salt concentration and humidity. Among other applications, the structured gel could be used as a fast and inexpensive chemical sensor, says Edwin Thomas, MIT's Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. One place where such an env ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 23, 2007Russia's largest independent crude producer LUKoil said on Monday that possible U.S. sanctions against Iran could threaten the company's Anaran oil project in the Islamic Republic. The Anaran project is a joint undertaking involving Norwegian Norsk Hydro (75%) and LUKoil Overseas (25%). The Anaran oil block has oil reserves of 2 billion barrels. LUKoil said that as its investments in the p ... more Environment ministers to meet in Indonesia 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 22, 2007Ministers and senior officials from around 40 countries are to hold informal talks in Indonesia this week aimed at setting the stage for a global climate change summit on Bali later this year. The three-day meeting beginning Tuesday in the hill town of Bogor outside Jakarta will bring together diplomats from key carbon-emitting nations to test the waters for more substantive talks in Bali, o ... more India's coalition to meet on stalled US nuke deal 
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 22, 2007Members of India's troubled coalition were to hold fresh talks Monday over a stalled nuclear deal with the United States, with left-wing parties demanding to know if the accord may still go ahead. The dominant Congress party of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appeared to buckle last week to opposition from its leftist allies, who had threatened to withdraw their support and force early electio ... more NASA To Open New Competition For Space Transportation Seed Money 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2007NASA announced Thursday it will conduct a new competition for funding that remains in NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services Project, known as COTS. The new competition follows NASA's decision to terminate its funded agreement with aerospace firm Rocketplane Kistler of Oklahoma City, which repeatedly failed to meet agreed-upon milestones in its effort to develop and demonstrate commer ... more |
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Holcomb, Kan. (UPI) Oct 19, 2007 The Kansas Department of Health and Environment denied the air quality permit for two proposed 700-megawatt generators at the Sunflower Electric Power Corp. The agency cited environmental concerns in rejecting the expansion at the coal-fired plant in Holcomb, Kan., which was projected to release an estimated 11 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.. "I believe it would be irre ... more EI Solutions Ground-Mounted Solar Array To Include Sun Trackers 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007EI Solutions announced that it will begin constructing a 1.0 megawatt solar electricity system for The West County Wastewater District's (WCWD) main wastewater treatment plant in Richmond, CA later this year. The solar photovoltaic system is being funded and built under a Power Purchase Agreement with Solar Power Partners, Inc. who will own and operate the system while providing WCWD with clean ... more Greening the Grid Gets Green Light 
Folsom CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2007The California Independent System Operator Corporation (California ISO) Board of Governors approved making changes to its federal tariff that spell out how a new financing tool will work to remove barriers for renewable power trying to access the power grid. If approved formally by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the new financing mechanism will make it feasible for smaller gree ... more Solar Water Technology Feeds The Needy In San Francisco 
Newington CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Project Open Hand, a San Francisco non-profit whose mission is to prepare and deliver nourishing meals to the homebound and elderly, now has a state-of-the-art solar hot water system. Solar hot water harnesses the power of the sun to produce non-polluting clean energy. Using the latest technology from Schuco, one of the world's leading makers of solar hot water and solar electric systems, the sy ... more
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