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First US Commercial Wave Energy Power Purchase Agreement San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2008 
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced that it has entered into a long-term, two megawatt (MW) commercial wave energy power purchasing agreement (PPA) with Finavera Renewables. Located off the Northern California coast, the Humboldt County Offshore Wave Energy Power Plant will be developed by Finavera Renewables. The project is expected to begin delivering renewable, clean electricity in 201 ... read more
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California sues US for blocking car emissions rules
Los Angeles (AFP) Jan 2, 2008California said on Wednesday it was suing the US government for blocking the implementation of the state's tough new standards on greenhouse gases emitted by automobiles. The move came after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last month denied California's request to be allowed to set new vehicle emissions standards which would be more strict than the federal laws. "It is unconsci ... more UCLA Scientists Working To Create Smaller, Faster Integrated Circuits 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Integrated circuits are the "brain" in computers, cell phones, DVD players, iPhones, personal digital assistants, automobiles' navigation systems and anti-lock brakes, and many other electronic devices. A team of UCLA scientists has now demonstrated substantial improvements in integrated circuits, achieved not by costly improvements in manufacturing but by improved computer-aided design software ... more Hybrid Semiconductors Show Zero Thermal Expansion 
Argonne IL (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The fan in your computer is there to keep the microprocessor chip from heating to the point where its component materials start to expand, inducing cracks that interrupt the flow of electricity - and not incidentally, ruin the chip. Thermal expansion can also separate semiconducting materials from the substrate, reduce performance through changes in the electronic structure of the material or wa ... more Clark School Researchers Develop Two-Dimensional Invisibility Cloak 
College Park MD (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling's fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of bespectacled teenage wizards. A research team at Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering comprised of Professor Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor ... more Top 10 Advances In Materials Science In The Last 50 Years 
Oxford, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2008What are the defining discoveries and great developments that are shaping the way we use materials and technologies today? Elsevier's Materials today magazine has compiled a list of the top ten most significant advances in materials science over the last 50 years. The top ten includes advances that have altered all our daily lives. Some have completely changed the research arena, and others have ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 31, 2007 The year 2007 will be seen as a major turning point in the development of Caspian energy, perhaps the most significant 12 months since the 1991 collapse of communism opened up the possibilities of developing one of the world's last great oil frontiers. At the heart of developing Caspian reserves are two major contenders, Russia and Western oil companies, most notably U.S. firms. Both ha ... more China a big, but not only, contributor to record oil prices: analysts 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 2, 2008China's unquenchable thirst for oil is contributing to sustained high prices, but it is not the main factor in crude's latest surge toward new records, analysts said Wednesday. Speculative trading, geopolitics such as unrest in the Middle East and US efforts to fill its oil reserves, as well as the weakness in the US currency, are more important reasons for crude nearing 100 dollars a barrel ... more Eco-Tec's Biogas Purification Technology Part Of RGMRM's Innovative Greenhouse Gas-to-Energy Project 
Pickering, Canada (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Eco-Tec is proud to announce that it has recently been awarded the contract for a biogas purification system by Regie de gestion des matieres residuelles de la Mauricie (RGMRM) of Quebec. The integrated process includes the capture, purification and use of biogas as an alternative energy source for greenhouses. "Hot house tomatoes are not the only beneficiary of biogas purification technol ... more Companies Reach Agreement To Coordinate Spectrum Opertaions For New Constellation 
Reston VA (SPX) Jan 02, 2008SkyTerra Communications, Inc, Inmarsat plc, Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) and Mobile Satellite Ventures (Canada) Inc. report that that the companies have reached a comprehensive cooperative agreement for L-Band operations in North America. The agreement is intended to enable the re-banding and efficient reuse of a substantial segment of North American L-Band radio spectrum for the benefi ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Dec 27, 2007An Indonesian court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit brought by environmentalists against an energy company alleged to have caused a mud volcano that has displaced thousands in East Java province. The South Jakarta district court ruled that the mudflow in Sidoarjo district was a "natural disaster", and not caused by gas drilling by Lapindo Brantas as alleged by Friends of the Earth Indonesia. ... more Search intensifies for Indonesian landslide victims 
Tawangmangu, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Rescue workers stepped up a hunt Friday for victims of landslides and floods that claimed scores of lives on Indonesia's Java island and displaced thousands, an official said. The landslides smashed through homes, burying families alive, in the early hours of Wednesday after monsoon rains lashed Central and East Java provinces this week and also triggered devastating floods. More than 1, ... more Vietnam villagers ransack titanium mine site: reports 
Hanoi (AFP) Dec 28, 2007Hundreds of Vietnamese villagers have ransacked the site of a proposed titanium mine that they fear will pollute the soil and ground water, local officials and media reports said Friday. More than 300 protesters caused over 12,000 dollars in damage when they destroyed machinery and pipelines at the site near the seaside Tam Tien commune in central Quang Nam province last Sunday. Develope ... more Indonesia: President urges better forest management amid floods 
Tawangmangu, Indonesia (AFP) Dec 29, 2007Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged better forest management across the nation Saturday as he toured an area stricken by deadly landslides and floods this week. "That would be a brilliant way to take care of the Earth," he said, according to the state-run news agency Antara, adding that it would help prevent further disasters in the world's fourth most populous nation. Th ... more
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