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New Apartment Building Lets You Drive Your Car All The Way Home New York, NY, June 09th, 2008 
The 19-story, 16 unit, luxury condominium tower at 200 11th Avenue in Chelsea in New York City has been topped out, according to the building's Architect of Record, Steven Kratchman, AIA. 200 11th Avenue is often referred to as the sky garage building, because it's designed with a car elevator that travels vertically to all of the residential units. Each luxury aparent will be sold with ... read more
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Chemists Get Scoop on Crude Oil From Pig Manure
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jun 13, 2008After a close examination of crude oil made from pig manure, chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are certain about a number of things. Most obviously, "This stuff smells worse than manure," says NIST chemist Tom Bruno. But a job's a job, so the NIST team has developed the first detailed chemical analysis revealing what processing is needed to ... more Sharp Provides Photovoltaic Panels For Far Niente Winery Floatovoltaic Solar Array In Napa Valley 
Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Napa Valley wine producer Far Niente has gone live with its "Floatovoltaic" solar array. The Floatovoltaic installation, developed by Thompson Technology Industries (TTI), creatively couples solar power with water, saving valuable vineyard acreage from being sacrificed for land-mounted arrays. This innovative solar system was installed by SPG Solar, using solar panels from Sharp, a world ... more HarbourVest Global Announces Sale Of Ersol Solar Energy AG 
St Peter Port, Guernsey (SPX) Jun 12, 2008HarbourVest Global Private Equity has been advised of the proposed sale of ersol Solar Energy AG by Ventizz Capital Fund II. At the announced price, the sale of ersol to Robert Bosch GmbH would result in a gain in NAV for HVPE of approximately U.S.$7.7 million, or U.S.$0.09 per share. Ventizz is one of HVPE's 25 largest underlying European managers and one of HVPE's 25 largest underlying ... more German coalition agrees on green car tax 
Berlin (AFP) June 12, 2008Germany's left-right coalition said on Thursday it had agreed on plans to tax new vehicles on how much they pollute instead of engine size in a bid to encourage the production of greener cars. Under the accord between Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, who have been in an acrimonious "grand coalition" since 2005, the tax on new cars will take effect in 2 ... more Far West Rice Dedicates One MW Mitsubishi Solar System To Reduce Food Processing Costs 
Chico CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2008The largest rice plant solar installation in the U.S. will be dedicated on Wednesday, June 18 at 11:30 AM at the Far West Rice plant in Nelson, California. The cost of the $6.5 million installation was partially offset with $1.8 million in solar rebates from PG and E and is expected to generate 1 Megawatt per year, meeting approximately 70-80% of the total energy costs of the rice plant. ... more |
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Srinagar (AFP) June 12, 2008Police in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir detained 70 people as protests against a rise in fuel prices announced by the national government continued for a fourth day on Thursday. Police used batons and water cannons to repel government employees shouting "roll back fuel prices" as they tried to march on the office of Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad in Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar. ... more Iberdrola says it is dropping any plan to bid for British Energy 
Madrid (AFP) June 12, 2008Spanish electricity generator Iberdrola said on Thursday that it was abandoning any thought of bidding for British energy and nuclear group British Energy. A spokesman for Iberdrola said that the chairman of the company, the second-biggest electricity group in Spain, Ignacio Galan, had made a statement to this effect in New York late on Wednesday. Galan spoke when he received a prize ... more Analysis: The Azeri elections and oil 
Washington (UPI) Jun 12, 2008 Since Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration has pursued a "global war on terror" and a mission to advance democracy around the world. The latter campaign, however, elicits muffled criticism when an oil-rich state is holding elections, even in the former Evil Empire post-Soviet space. While Americans are increasingly absorbed in their upcoming presidential election, even while ... more France, Nigeria sign strategic partnership deal 
Paris (AFP) June 12, 2008France and Nigeria on Thursday signed an accord aimed at promoting cooperation in civilian nuclear energy development and in strengthening economic ties, a French presidential statement said. The agreement was signed during a visit here of Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua and French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy. The economic component of the accord focuses on a number of "priority ... more |
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Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 12, 2008Transistors based on a new kind of material created by Northwestern University researchers have been lifted into outer space on the space shuttle Endeavour and attached to the outside of the International Space Station for radiation testing. Such transistors could prove helpful on long space missions, such as NASA's current Phoenix Mars Mission, since early experiments on Earth indicate ... more Graft fears as China turns to quake reconstruction 
Juyuan, China (AFP) June 11, 2008China has insisted it will not allow corruption to infect its huge earthquake reconstruction effort, but one month after the disaster not everyone is convinced reality will match the pledge. The temptation is clear -- billions of dollars have flowed into China from around the world to help survivors of the devastating May 12 quake that killed more than 69,000 people. China's government ... more China's 'quake lake' shrinks further: report 
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2008A day after China declared victory over a dangerous "quake lake," waters receded further Wednesday, state press said, but authorities warned the danger period was not over due to predicted heavy rains. "More than half of the 250 million cubic metre (8.8 billion cubic feet) volume has been discharged and the number of people under threat had dropped from 1.3 million to less than 50,000," ... more All schools in China to be inspected for quake-resistance 
Beijing (AFP) June 11, 2008China has asked all schools to check the quake resistance of their buildings, an official said Wednesday, after thousands of children died in the Sichuan earthquake. The schools will have to be thoroughly checked by September 1, an official at China's Ministry of Education said, particularly those with concrete and brick structures that were built before 2001. "To improve the quake ... more
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