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China electricity supplier warns of power crisis: report Shanghai (AFP) Jan 23, 2008 
China's biggest electricity provider has asked the government to help ensure coal supplies and avert a looming power crisis, state media reported on Wednesday.
The State Grid Corp issued the call for help after stockpiles of coal, which provide about 70 percent of China's power needs, had dwindled to a week's supply in recent days, the China Business News said.
The supply crunch was caus ... read more
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France's Areva ready to bid for two reactors in South Africa
Paris (AFP) Jan 22, 2008A consortium led by French nuclear giant Areva is preparing to bid for two third-generation atomic reactors to be built in South Africa, a spokesman for the group said Tuesday. Areva, construction and communication conglomerate Bouygues and electricity giant EDF have teamed up with South African engineering firm Aveng for the project, with a formal offer to be made to Pretoria at the end of ... more Bella Energy Installs One Of America Largest Retrofit Solar Electric Systems 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Boulder Housing Partners (BHP), the housing authority serving the city of Boulder, has partnered with VisionSun Design, a design and project management consulting firm, to award a contract to solar energy company Bella Energy to install thirty 1.75 kilowatt solar electric systems on a 30-unit affordable housing site. The 52.5 kilowatt solar electric system will be installed at Diagonal Cou ... more WWF calls for moratorium on oil exploration in Arctic 
Tromsoe, Norway (AFP) Jan 22, 2008Global conservation group WWF called on Tuesday for a moratorium on all new oil exploration in the Arctic, insisting that the environmental risks to the sensitive eco system there were too great. "The WWF is formally calling for a moratorium on new oil and gas development in the Arctic," Neil Hamilton, director of the group's Arctic programme, said at a conference in northern Norway on envir ... more Fog causing high dust levels in Bulgaria: environmental agency 
Sofia (AFP) Jan 22, 2008Dust levels in the air in Bulgaria have remained above the norm throughout January, owing to the fog that has enveloped the country several times this month, the executive environmental agency said Tuesday. From January 9 to 10, the levels of dust in the air in capital Sofia were four times the norm of 50 milligrammes of dust particles per cubic metre. And in the second biggest city of P ... more Analysis: Iraqis without fuel, power 
Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2008You can't have one without the other, but with many of Iraq's power plants shut and refineries stopped, Iraqis have neither fuel nor electricity. Iraq's Electricity Ministry is blaming the Oil Ministry for cutting fuel supplies and Turkey for ending electricity imports. The Oil Ministry says continuous power to its refineries will lead to continuous supplies of fuel. ... more |
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Madison, Wis. (UPI) Jan 22, 2008U.S. scientists say the study of diatoms -- algae that encase themselves in patterned, glass-like shells -- might lead to an advance in computer chips. University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers said the tiny unicellular phytoplankton build their hard cell walls by depositing submicron-sized lines of silica, a compound related to silicon. ... more Bentley Expands Portfolio Of Software To Improve Performance Of Buildings 
Exton PA (SPX) Jan 23, 2008Bentley Systems announced that it has acquired Hevacomp, Ltd., a Sheffield, England-based leading provider of building services design software dedicated to improving the performance of buildings. Included in its portfolio is software for energy analysis, heating and cooling load calculations, pipe and duct sizing, and electrical system design and product catalogs. Hevacomp is at the foref ... more Could The Universe Be Tied Up With Cosmic String 
Brighton, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2008Cosmic strings are predicted by high energy physics theories, including superstring theory. This is based on the idea that particles are not just little points, but tiny vibrating bits of string Cosmic strings are predicted to have extraordinary amounts of mass - perhaps as much as the mass of the Sun - packed into each metre of a tube whose width is less a billion billionth of the size of an at ... more Ion engine to propel spacecraft to Mercury 
London (UPI) Jan 19, 2008British space experts have been given the green light to start building a Star Trek-like engine for a Mercury-bound spacecraft. The ion-powered BebiColumbo, which is set to leave Earth in 2013 for a six-year voyage to Mercury, will reach fuel efficiencies equal to 17.8 million miles per gallon, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The hot planet has puzzled scientists because of ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2008The 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 ... more 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
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