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Global automakers output hit by China snow storms Shanghai (AFP) Jan 30, 2008 
Fierce, driving snow storms in China disrupted global automakers' production at their joint venture factories owing to a lack of workers, parts and energy, the companies said Wednesday. Ford Motor shut its Ford and Mazda assembly, engine and research plants in Nanjing from Monday as the eastern city was forced to close icy roads and bridges after being pounded by the worst snow storm in five ... read more
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Japan's ruling coalition backs down on fuel tax -- for now
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2008Japan's ruling coalition, on the verge of another showdown with the opposition in a divided parliament, Wednesday called at least a momentary truce to plans to ram through a controversial fuel tax. The current parliament session was set to be a duel between Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who wants to maintain a tax at the pump, and the opposition, which has vowed to scuttle his agenda until he ... more Analysis: Venezuela expands influence 
Miami (UPI) Jan 30, 2008Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently announced his country's decision to build a refinery on the Caribbean island of Dominica, part of his effort to further integrate the region's energy supplies. Chavez said Dominica's refinery would be a jumping-off point for distributing Venezuelan oil to other eastern Caribbean countries. The capacity of the proposed refinery was not a ... more Outside View: Oil firms boom on Iraq war 
Hastings-On-Hudson, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 28, 2008As ExxonMobil prepares to celebrate what could be a record profit of more than $10 billion for the last quarter of 2007, jubilant company officials and stockholders might want to join in a moment of silence for the more than 1 million war dead in Iraq -- Iraqi and American combined. They paid the ultimate price in a war in which ExxonMobil has had a hand and which we can estimate is responsibl ... more Nuclear, solar and geothermal energy pushed at Philippine summit 
Manila (AFP) Jan 30, 2008The Philippine government should seriously consider other sources of energy such as nuclear, solar and geothermal rather than rely on oil, an energy summit in Manila was told Wednesday. "We must have a common and sustainable programme of energy development from a variety of available and indigenous sources... at a cost which will make us more competitive in the world market," congressman Jua ... more Losses mount for operator of Japan's quake-hit nuke plant 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2008Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the world's largest nuclear plant which was hit by an earthquake last year, said Wednesday it expected much wider losses this year as inspections continue. A powerful quake in July caused a slew of problems at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant in central Japan, including a fire and a small radiation leak. While no one was hurt, the plant supplying the Tokyo market ... more |
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Perrysburg OH (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Glasstech is meeting the exploding growth within the solar power industry. The U.S. Department of Energy estimates by 2020 there will be more than 20 gigawatts of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) alone online in the United States, which require shaped glass parts for parabolic reflectors. Additionally, the demand for shaped glass substrates and extremely flat glass panels for the photovoltaic sola ... more Electron Solar Energy Wins Bid To Supply Haitian Medical Industry With 100 Solar Energy Systems 
Miami FL (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Electron Solar Energy announced that the company has been awarded an order for 100 complete renewable solar energy systems for the Haitian Medical industry. The Company has already received full payment, which is valued in the low six-figures. The systems will help to refrigerate critical medications and vaccines used to protect children against disease. Electron Solar's Director of Export ... more Global Solar Energy Achieves 10 Percent Average Solar Cell Efficiency In CIGS 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Global Solar Energy (GSE) has announced it is the first in the CIGS thin-film market to achieve an average of 10 percent solar cell efficiency on a flexible/lightweight substrate over several production runs. GSE reached the milestone in December 2007, capping off a record year in which the company also manufactured and shipped 4 MW (megawatts) of photovoltaic material powering commercial, gover ... more Clear Skies Solar Signs Agreement To Install Solar Energy System 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2008Clear Skies Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Clear Skies Solar, has announced it has contracted to install a $6.4 million, 1 Megawatt project in California's Mojave Desert. A leading developer of solar energy products, Clear Skies Group specializes in turnkey installation of commercial photovoltaic (PV) solar systems and residential systems. "We welcomed the challenges presented to us b ... more |
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Ithaca, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 29, 2008U.S. scientists have determined "anti-social" metals such as lithium and beryllium will bond, forming stable alloys at high density and pressure. Lithium and beryllium, the lightest known metals, don't bind under normal atmospheric or ambient pressure. But a team of Cornell University scientists predicted they will bond under higher levels of pressure and form stable alloys that might ... more Military Matters: Rebuilding states 
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2008For centuries, continental wars that included Britain tended to follow a pattern. The British would send an army to the continent; it would be defeated by the French or Germans; the British would withdraw to their island; and their triumphant European enemy would draw up a superior force on the French or Dutch Channel coast. There was little doubt about the outcome, should that army land in Br ... more Making (Accurate Predictions Of) Waves 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands - and notes that warning systems to guard at-risk populations are still lagging. Costas Synolakis, director of the University of Southern California Tsunami Research Center is co-author of "Far-Field Tsunami Hazard From Mega-Thrust Earthquakes in the Indian Ocean ... more Protecting The Alps From Traffic Noise And Air Pollution 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2008A European research project under the name of ALPNAP comes to a conclusion that helps to minimise noise and air pollution along main alpine traffic routes. The project was led by the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) Institute for Atmospheric Physics. The findings will be presented to the public from 23rd to 25th January, 2008 at a conference in Innsbruck. The growing level of goods traffic ... more
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