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British-designed jet could reach Australia in under five hours London (AFP) Feb 5, 2008 
British engineers unveiled plans Tuesday for a hypersonic jet which could fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours. The A2 plane, designed by engineering company Reaction Engines based in Oxfordshire, southern England, could carry 300 passengers at a top speed of almost 4,000 mph (6,400 kmh), five times the speed of sound. The LAPCAT (Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts an ... read more
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Intel to deliver first computer chip with two billion transistors
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 4, 2008Intel announced on Monday that it has created a two-billion-transistor computer chip that will give supercomputers "a leap in performance and capabilities." The world's largest maker of microprocessors says its new Itanium brand chip, codenamed "Tukwila," built for supercomputers increases the power of machines more than twofold and will be available near the end of the year. ... more NIST building hydrogen pipeline laboratory 
Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Feb 5, 2008The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is constructing a new laboratory that's designed to test materials for hydrogen pipelines. Widely used in industrial processing, hydrogen is attractive as a fuel because it burns cleanly without carbon emissions and can be derived from domestic sources, researchers noted. But long-term exposure to hydrogen can cause pipelines to be ... more Flapping-wing airplanes are envisioned 
Ann Arbor, Mich. (UPI) Feb 5, 2008U.S. scientists are studying birds, bats and insects and their aerobatic efficiencies as a step toward designing flapping-wing airplanes. University of Michigan engineers said such planes of the future might have wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards and the aerodynamics of flying animals that can outperform current man-made aircraft. For example, the engineers note the ... more Swedish truckmakers lead switch to green transport 
Stockholm (AFP) Feb 5, 2008The transport sector is a major planet polluter but truckmakers in Sweden, where a clean environment has long been a top concern, are leading the way in climate-conscious production with eco-friendly plants. "Volvo and Scania are definitely in advance on the competition. Environmental issues have been on their minds for a very, very long time," Anders Trapp, a truck sector analyst at Swedish ... more Geotimes Explores For Oil Around The World 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008With oil hovering around $90 a barrel, Geotimes magazine examines emerging trends and issues in several obvious, and some not-so-obvious locations, in this month's cover story "Oil Around the World." Land disputes, foreign sanctions, terrorism, war and economics play into the exploration and recovery of the world's oil and natural gas reserves. Be it Libya, Iraq or Norway, the South China ... more |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Bella Energy, has installed a 22.8 kilowatt solar system on Oceanic Preservation Society's Boulder film production studio. Oceanic Preservation Society (OPS) is a non-profit organization that makes films about the declining state of the oceans, founded by Boulder residents Louie Psihoyos, a career National Geographic photographer, and his retired-ballerina wife Viki Psihoyos. Louie was ... more Renewable Energy Companies Thriving In Volatile Market 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008America's renewable energy industries are thriving at a time of unprecedented market volatility -- and wind and solar companies in particular are among the few bright spots in the current gloom over Wall Street. Wall Street's JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs and the big utilities have been buying up renewable energy companies in a scramble to get a piece of the record-breaking growth. More than a ... more NCSU Houses Largest PV System In North Carolina 
Raleigh NC (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Solar power pioneer Richard Harkrader, owner of Durham-based Carolina Solar Energy, has waited three years for this day. After countless delays and unforeseen hurdles, the solar project his company started in 2004 is up and running on NC State's campus next to the RBC Center in Raleigh, making it the largest privately financed solar photovoltaic (PV) array installed on a university in North ... more Analyzing The US Energy Industry 2008 Report 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Feb 06, 2008Research and Markets has announced the addition of Analyzing the Energy Industry in United States to their offering. The global energy industry has explored many options to meet the growing energy needs of industrialized economies wherein production demands are to be met with supply of power from varied energy resources worldwide. There has been a clearer realization of the finite nature ... more |
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Guangzhou, China (AFP) Feb 4, 2008China's chief meteorologist admitted Monday the country was not prepared for the severe winter weather that has stranded millions of people struggling to get home for Lunar New Year. The blizzards and icy temperatures that have lasted nearly three weeks have left millions stuck at airports, train stations and bus depots across south, central and eastern China. "We didn't expect the snowy ... more Can We Use Science To Solve Global Warming 
Dallas TX (SPX) Feb 05, 2008Combating a warming world requires a portfolio of strategies, including exploring innovative new approaches to apply science and engineering, according to a new report from the National Center for Policy Analysis. The report warns that focusing solely on reducing carbon dioxide emissions is too inflexible and politically unrealistic. If combating potentially harmful global war ... more Walker's World: A recession election? 
Washington (UPI) Feb 4, 2008Is this a recession or not? Is the United States about to be plunged into an election campaign dominated by unemployment figures, home foreclosures and demagogic attacks on globalization and the loss of American jobs to low-wage economies? In a sense, it barely matters whether the U.S. plunges into what economists formally call a recession, which is when the gross domestic product turns ... more Water Management For A New Century 
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2008Climate change is making a central assumption of water management obsolete: Water-resource risk assessment and planning are currently based on the notion that factors such as precipitation and streamflow fluctuate within an unchanging envelope of variability. But anthropogenic change of Earth's climate is altering the means and extremes of these factors so that this paradigm of stationarit ... more
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