China Solar Energy Industry Research And Forecast For 2008-2010
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jan 07, 2008
Research and Markets has announced the addition of China Solar Energy Industry Research and Forecast, 2008-2010 to their offering. Solar is one of the fastest growing energy technologies in the global economy and in the cleantech universe. As is envisioned by the U.S. space program, future solar energy power plants will be placed on an orbit of about 6,000 km above the earth, from which electric ... read more
Analysis: Uzbek and Tajik energy
Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2008
In the Soviet Union, many commodities were subsidized for Soviet consumers, including energy, which was provided either free or at costs far below world prices. The practice still continues in most post-Soviet states, with Russian consumers receiving natural gas and electricity at rates far below world prices, while in Turkmenistan, citizens receive free natural gas and electricity and it cost ... more
Analysis: Nigeria's Delta vows crackdown
Miami (UPI) Jan 4, 2008
Hoping to curtail the rising violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, one governor has threatened to arrest the family members of militants accused of attacking oil and gas operations.
Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State said authorities would arrest the parents of suspected militants in an effort to force them to lay down their arms. The threat came a day after a band of militants storme ... more
Analysis: China and Turkmen energy
Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2008
Before the 1991 Soviet collapse, Russia dominated the economies of the other 14 republics. In the decade and a half since, Western companies have been angling to acquire a piece of the former Soviet Union's energy assets. In the last few years, however, China has become an increasingly important regional player, and in a nasty Christmas present for both Washington and Moscow, on Dec. 28 China ... more
CES unveils smart cars, robotic massages and more
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 6, 2008
The world's top consumer electronics show informally got under way in Las Vegas on Saturday with an early glimpse at smart cars, robotic massages and other innovations.
"This is where the gadgets are, and the people that like gadgets," Nate Nelson of Zagg Inc. told AFP as he pitched military-grade plastic coating for handheld devices at a Consumer Electronics Show preview dubbed "Unveiled." ... more
China's toy exports rocket despite recalls: state media
Beijing (AFP) Jan 6, 2008
Exports of Chinese toys rocketed in the first 10 months of last year despite a wave of high-profile recalls of products made by the Asian nation, state media said Sunday.
In the period from January to October, China shipped 7.1 billion dollars' worth of toys abroad, an increase of 20.1 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Xinhua news agency reported.
It compares to a growth r ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Wind farms could chew up migrating birds
ENERGY TECH
Commodity price surge powered by supply-demand tension
ENERGY TECH
Babcock And Brown And BP Announce Full Commercial Operation Of One Of The Largest Wind Farms In The US
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Earth Biofuels Subsidiary Receives Renewable LNG Output From Landfill Project
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 07, 2008
Earth Biofuels announced that its subsidiary, Applied LNG Technologies, has begun receiving regular deliveries of the output of renewable liquefied natural gas ("LNG") produced from a landfill site in Orange County, California. Per the terms of a prior agreement, ALT has the first right to purchase one hundred percent of the nameplate capacity (5,000 gallons per day) production of the LNG facili ... more
Akeena Solar Licenses New Solar Panel Technology To Suntech
Los Gatos CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2008
Akeena Solar announced that its state-of-the-art solar panel technology, Andalay, will be distributed in Europe, Japan and Australia under a license agreement with Suntech Power Holdings. The terms of the Licensing Agreement authorize Suntech to distribute Andalay in Europe, Japan and Australia commencing in January 2008. This Licensing Agreement is in addition to Suntech's previous agreement to ... more
Tri-State Biodiesel To Provide Biodiesel Fuel To NYC Mobile-Grocer FreshDirect
New York NY (SPX) Jan 07, 2008
New York NY (SPX) Jan 07, 2008
New York City's first biodiesel company, Tri-State Biodiesel, is proud to announce that it will be filling FreshDirect's delivery trucks with clean-burning biodiesel blended fuel. The biodiesel fuel, which is made primarily from waste cooking oil collected from New York City restaurants, will be phased in to FreshDirect's fuel supply over the course of the next 2 ... more
Two Milestones Reached For Integration Of High-Energy Laser With MDA's Airborne Laser Aircraft
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2008
Northrop Grumman has achieved two milestones that helped prepare the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Airborne Laser (ABL) aircraft for integration of the Northrop Grumman-developed high-energy laser. Both accomplishments contributed to MDA's success in meeting its fifth and final "Knowledge Point" or milestone for 2007 covering high-power systems integration readiness, continuing recent prog ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE
World to cool slightly in 2008: British experts
CLIMATE SCIENCE
North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability; But Global Warming May Be At Play Elsewhere
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Naples 'suffocated' by rubbish, again
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ADB to help China save one of Asia's largest coastal wetlands
Manila (AFP) Jan 3, 2008
The Asian Development Bank said Thursday it would help China protect Yancheng, one of Asia's largest coastal wetlands which is an important winter site for threatened red-crowned cranes.
The Manila-based ADB said it approved a 650,000-dollar grant to help Beijing launch a protection project for the four million-hectare (9.9 million-acre) stretch of mud flats, creeks, salt marshes and reed be ... more
Australia looks to GM crops after scorching 2007
Sydney (AFP) Jan 3, 2008
Australia's agriculture minister on Thursday hailed genetically modified crops as a means to help farmers combat climate change, as data showed 2007 was the country's sixth hottest year on record.
Agriculture Minister Tony Burke said Australia's farmers needed to face up to climate change, foreshadowing major changes to drought relief payments worth billions of dollars.
Burke said Prime ... more
First-Ever Study To Link Increased Mortality Specifically To CO2 Emissions
A Stanford scientist has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes.
The new findings, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, come to light just after the Environmental Protection Agency's recent ruling against states setting specific emission standards for this greenhouse gas based in part on the lack of data showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and their health effects.
While it has long been known that carbon dioxide emissions co ... more
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 ... more
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ENERGY TECH
Japan to buy China emissions quotas: report
ENERGY TECH
Smithsonian Scientists Highlight Environmental Impacts Of Biofuels
ENERGY TECH
Protests over approval for British coal power plant
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