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100-dollar crude is good and bad news for environment Paris (AFP) Jan 3, 2008 
Surging oil prices are a mixed blessing for the environment, experts say.
Clean renewable energy and recycling are getting a major boost from 100-dollar-a-barrel crude -- but so are coal, a massive contributor to global warming, and nuclear power, which remains shadowed by safety concerns.
Oil briefly topped 100 dollars on Wednesday, driven by escalating energy demand in China, stagnant ... read more
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Japan to buy China emissions quotas: report
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 3, 2008Japan has agreed to buy greenhouse gas emissions quotas from China as part of efforts to meet its Kyoto Protocol target, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Thursday. The two countries will seek a formal accord on the plan during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan, scheduled for late March, the newspaper said. Japan plans to use the so-called clean development mechanism, under whic ... more Analysis: Venezuelan oil production down 
Miami (UPI) Jan 3, 2008 Venezuela's oil industry shrank by more than 5 percent in 2007, according to the Venezuelan National Bank, raising concerns the Venezuelan government is not investing enough of its petroleum wealth in the sector. Oil production was off 5.3 percent in 2007 from the previous year and contributed $3.14 billion to the country's gross domestic product, down from both 2006 and 2005 when the s ... more Chinese major aircraft makers to build big planes: report 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 3, 2008China's two major aircraft makers are likely to join forces as part of the nation's ambitious efforts to build a domestic passenger jet that would rival Boeing and Airbus, state media said Thursday. China Aviation Industry Corp I (AVIC I) and AVIC II, both state-owned, may consolidate their commercial aircraft manufacturing businesses and set up a new firm to assemble the plane, the China Da ... more Life At The Jolt 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Researchers at the Biodesign Institute are using the tiniest organisms on the planet 'bacteria' as a viable option to make electricity. In a new study featured in the journal Biotechnology and Bioengineering, lead author Andrew Kato Marcus and colleagues Cesar Torres and Bruce Rittmann have gained critical insights that may lead to commercialization of a promising microbial fuel cell (MFC) techn ... more Mobile Metal Atoms 
Siegen, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2008Mobile phones, notebook computers, iPods-the boom in portable computing and communications devices is dependent on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to deliver power. These batteries offer the highest energy density, allow laptops to function for useful amounts of time, and do not display a memory effect when compared to other types of rechargeable batteries. However, modern rechargeable batter ... more |
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Jakarta (AFP) Jan 2, 2008Landslides and floods that struck Indonesia's main island of Java last week killed 107 people and left 12 missing, a health ministry official said Wednesday, as waters receded in the worst hit areas. Torrential rains across Central and East Java provinces triggered landslides that engulfed homes and floods along the island's longest river which displaced tens of thousands of people, hundreds ... more Syria presses Turkey over Euphrates water supplies: agency 
Ankara (AFP) Jan 2, 2008Visiting Syrian Deputy Premier Abdullah Dardari urged Turkey Wednesday to let more water flow into his country from the Euphrates river, Anatolia news agency reported. Dardari said after talks with Turkish officials that the recent drought in Syria had hit water supplies, the agency reported. Syria and Iraq often complain that their northern neighbour Turkey -- with a series of dams buil ... more Fisheries Should Be Regarded As A Part Of The Maritime Environment 
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 03, 2008Professional fishery is in many sea areas a serious ecological threat to the maritime environment. On the other hand, changes in the environment, e.g. the increase of fish-eating animals like seals and cormorants, may impact the fisheries. One of the new guiding principles of political decision-making in fishery issues is that a holistic "ecosystems approach" should be used instead of traditiona ... more Carbon Sink Capacity In Northern Forests Reduced By Global Warming 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2008An international study investigating the carbon sink capacity of northern terrestrial ecosystems discovered that the duration of the net carbon uptake period (CUP) has on average decreased due to warmer autumn temperatures. Net carbon uptake of northern ecosystems is decreasing in response to autumnal warming according to findings recently published January 3rd, in the journal Nature. The ... more |
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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 Energy Bill Biofuels Mandates Will Be Achievable With Biotechnology Advances 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2008The new renewable fuel standard (RFS) calling for production of 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022 will help accelerate development of advanced industrial biotechnology applications necessary to economically produce these volumes of biofuels, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) said. "The RFS could add as much as $170 billion to the U.S. economy in advanced technology develop ... 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
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