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Ultrabattery Sets New Standard For Hybrid Electric Cars Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2008 
The UltraBattery combines a supercapacitor and a lead acid battery in a single unit, creating a hybrid car battery that lasts longer, costs less and is more powerful than current technologies used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). "The UltraBattery is a leap forward for low emission transport and uptake of HEVs," said David Lamb, who leads low emissions transport research with the Energy Trans ... read more
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DOE Releases Soybean Genome Assembly To Support Global Bioenergy Efforts
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Ppreliminary assembly and annotation of the soybean genome, Glycine max, has been made available by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), to the greater scientific community to enable bioenergy research. The announcement was made by Eddy Rubin, DOE JGI Director, during his keynote remarks Jan. 15 at the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Conference in San Diego,CA. The prelim ... more Trees And Grass May Be Able To Produce Ethanol Without Poisoning The Oceans 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Within five to seven years fast growing trees and grasses might become economically viable alternatives to corn as a source of renewable fuel ethanol, reducing the need for pollutants that now cause a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. "Ethanol from cellulose, whether from trees or other sources, will be the way to go in the very near future," says Dr. Gopi Podila, a University of ... more Iowa Testing Hybrid Fueled School Buses 
Ames IA (SPX) Jan 22, 2008You've got to be careful with the accelerator because hybrid school buses like to go. Dan Taghon, the director of transportation for the Sigourney Community School District in southeast Iowa, said his district's new hybrid bus has been running routes since Jan. 3. And Taghon, who drives the bus on one of the district's six routes, said he likes the 65-passenger machine powered by an electric mot ... more Green US House Of Reps Closer To Reality 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2008The first six months of the greening of the Capitol have brought measurable successes-from beginning the process of relighting the Capitol Dome with environmentally-friendly lighting to eliminating environmentally-unfriendly Styrofoam from House food services-and the initiative promises to deliver more exciting gains in 2008. "We're thrilled with the progress that we've made so far," Chief ... more China Wind Systems Begins First Phase of Expansion Plan 
Wuxi, China (SPX) Jan 22, 2008China Wind Systems has purchased new equipment to expand its forged rolled rings manufacturing capabilities. The $4.13 million purchase was in line with the Company's strategy to focus on the growing wind power industry in China, and was largely funded with the proceeds from its recent private placement financing. The purchase marks the first step in execution of the Company's expansion pl ... more |
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Stockholm (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Nearly half of Swedes favour expanding Sweden's nuclear power stations, a poll showed Monday, despite plans to shut all of the Scandinavian country's 10 reactors over the next 20 years. A record 48 percent of Swedes favour the construction of new nuclear power stations in the country, according to a Synovate Institute poll of 1,026 people conducted between January 14 and 17. Thirty-nine ... more Analysis: Renewable energy's potential 
The Dalles, Ore. (UPI) Jan 21, 2008Faced with rising energy costs and growing demand, much of U.S. industry and government are turning to renewable energy as a solution, but for many citizens it's unclear when and how well these technologies will work. Given the approximately $2 billion allotted to renewable energy research and development in the recently signed Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, taxpayers may ... more US warns EU against using environment for protectionism 
Brussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2008US Trade Representative Susan Schwab warned Europe on Monday against using environmental issues as an excuse for protectionism amid disputes ranging from biotechnology to greenhouse gas emissions. "We have been dismayed at a variety of suggestions where we see climate or the environment being used as an excuse to close markets," Schwab said after talks with EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandel ... more Coal-fired Poland in fighting mood over EU emissions rules 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 21, 2008Coal is king in Poland, the European Union's top producer, and Warsaw is poised for a fight to keep burning as much as possible in power stations, feeding its economy despite the pollution. Sitting on an estimated 140 years' worth of coal reserves, Poland is on tenterhooks ahead of Brussels' announcement Wednesday of final proposals for how the EU's 27 member countries will have to shoulder ... more |
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Gaza City (AFP) Jan 19, 2008Maryam al-Rahil did not know on the night she died that the car in front of her donkey cart was carrying wanted men -- but the Israeli army did, and called in a lethal air strike. The explosion took out two militants of the radical group Islamic Jihad but it also killed the 56-year-old woman and her 24-year-old son Mohammed, hospitalising another son, Mansur, 18, with a serious head injury. ... more Natural disasters taking greater global toll, UN report 
Geneva (AFP) Jan 18, 2008Natural disasters such as floods, droughts, storms and heat waves affected more people globally in 2007 than 2006, despite taking fewer lives, according to a UN-linked report published Friday. The report warned that such disasters are likely to occur more frequently, especially as China and India experience aggressive industrial growth. "The increase in the number of floods is directly a ... more Philippines: Japan lends 174.6 million dlrs for volcano relief 
Manila (AFP) Jan 18, 2008Japan has approved 19.4 billion yen (174.6 million dollars) in loans to the Philippines to support land reform and bring relief to communities threatened by volcanic mud, Manila announced Friday. A 7.6 billion yen loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation would be used for flood control works in seven towns and cities around Pinatubo volcano in the northern Philippines, the econ ... more Carbon Disclosure Project to assess world business CO2 footprint 
Washington (AFP) Jan 20, 2008The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a consortium of 315 top institutional investors assessing industries about their CO2 emissions, announced Sunday a new partnership to extend its global initiative to companies and suppliers. With members including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Allianz and HSBC that manage assets of more than 41 trillion dollars, CDP since late 2007 has been working with s ... more
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