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Carmakers pledge support for Bali climate talks London (AFP) Dec 10, 2007 
The chief executives of 13 automobile companies pledged their support for UN climate talks in Bali, Indonesia, in a letter published in the Financial Times on Monday.
The group called on the 180 governments in negotiations, which will eventually produce a successor to the current phase of the Kyoto protocol when it expires in 2012, to "embrace sound and holistic measures."
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Den Haag, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 10, 2007Measuring soot formation in a diesel engine is far from easy. Due to the turbulent environment in the combustion cylinder, no two combustion cycles are the same. Furthermore, the measurements are difficult to reproduce as the pressure at which fuel is injected into the cylinder causes an extra source of turbulence. Bougie made his measurements in a glass cylinder with an engine adapted for this ... more Eco Dive Center Requests Solar Permit Fee Waiver In Culver City 
Culver City CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2007Starting with today's solar permit application at the building department of Culver City, Eco Dive Center Announces the installation of a solar electric system and energy management plan. Culver City is actively pursuing solar and renewable policies that could include free solar permits and a solar for new building requirement. Eco Dive Center is one of the first small businesses to go solar in ... more Sunshine To Petrol Project Seeks Fuel From Thin Air 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Dec 10, 2007Using concentrated solar energy to reverse combustion, a research team from Sandia National Laboratories is building a prototype device intended to chemically "reenergize" carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide using concentrated solar power. The carbon monoxide could then be used to make hydrogen or serve as a building block to synthesize a liquid combustible fuel, such as methanol or even gasolin ... more Biofuels: danger or new opportunity for Africa 
Ouagadougou (AFP) Dec 9, 2007The growing promotion of environmentally-friendly biofuels is raising questions for Africa: are such fuels a threat to food security or a golden opportunity to cut down on fossil fuel bills. Some 300 experts from the continent and further afield in the Americas and Europe, gathered earlier this month in the impoverished capital of the non-oil producing west African nation of Burkina Faso to ... more Don't push us too hard, China tells US ahead of trade dialogue 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 10, 2007A week of senior Sino-US economic exchanges kicked off on Monday with China warning the United States not to push too hard on sensitive issues, amid long-standing tensions over the Chinese currency. However China also said it would triple the quota for foreign stock investment, in a gesture analysts said was meant to create the appearance ahead of the Strategic Economic Dialogue that it was ... more |
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Sofia (AFP) Dec 7, 2007The Bulgarian government welcomed Friday a decision by the European Commission to give the go-ahead to plans to build a new nuclear plant at Belene on the Danube. "The commission's green light will speed up implementation of the Belene project," deputy economy and energy minister Galina Tosheva told a news conference here. "We can now proceed to finalising the building contract by the en ... more Brazil lashes out at US-EU 'green' trade plan 
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 9, 2007Senior trade officials from the United States and Brazil clashed Sunday over a US-EU proposal for fewer tariffs and trade barriers on environmentally-friendly goods and services. Celso Amorim, Brazil's minister of foreign relations, said there was "no agreement" on the proposal when it was discussed at a trade ministers meeting on the sidelines of a key climate summit on Indonesia's island o ... more Iran, China finalise two billion dollar oil contract 
Tehran (AFP) Dec 9, 2007Iran and China's Sinopec on Sunday signed a two billion dollar contract to develop a major Iranian oil field, a crucial deal for the Iranian energy industry at a time of mounting international pressure. The Iranian oil ministry and Sinopec inked the deal to pump oil from the Yadavaran onshore field in southwestern Iran, which was first agreed back in late 2004, at a ceremony in Tehran, an AF ... more Climate talks run into carbon conundrum 
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 10, 2007Bicycles, a solar taxi, recycled garbage and even tie-less meetings to help reduce air-conditioning costs -- you name it, the world climate forum is using every trick in the green book to reduce its own contribution to global warming. But even these and other thoughtful tricks to scale back greenhouse gas emissions will not help the December 3-14 marathon on climate change avoid a horrible f ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 07, 2007Winter has finally arrived and with it the colder temperatures. Now is the best time to start thinking about ways to save on your energy bill. To keep warm and cut down your energy use, try these helpful energy-saving tips around your house all winter. - Wrap water pipes. This will reduce heat loss from your hot water lines and help to prevent your pipes from freezing. The best type of w ... more Feeling Guilty Over Climate Change Then Call The Solar Taxi 
Nusa Dua, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 9, 2007Delegates at a key climate change summit feeling guilty about exhaust-spewing taxis have another solution -- call a solar taxi that has travelled over land to Asia all the way from Switzerland. Cheery Swiss national Louis Palmer fulfilled a childhood dream when he set off from his home country on July 3, travelling over desert, city and sea in 17 countries to reach the conference in Bali, In ... more Eaglepicher Technologies Ships First Lithium-Ion Batteries For Communications Satellites 
Joplin MO (SPX) Dec 07, 2007EaglePicher Technologies, LLC, an EaglePicher company and a leading producer of batteries and energetic devices for the defense, space and commercial industries, today announced it has shipped its first two orders for lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries to Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC). The 18-cell Li-Ion batteries will be used for communications satellites. "We have a long-term agreement ... more Political power and economic wealth go together in China: researcher 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 6, 2007Economic wealth and political power are increasingly going together in modern China, the compiler of one of the most frequently used lists of Chinese richest people said Thursday. Rupert Hoogewerf, the author of the annual Hurun China Rich List, said about a third of the 800 immensely wealthy people on his compilation this year were members of the ruling Communist Party. Ten percent are ... more
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