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Toxic legacy: Scientists ponder task of labelling nuclear waste Paris (AFP) June 30, 2008 
How will "DANGER!" be written 5,000 years from now? How will it be written in 50,000 years? Finding an answer to these questions may not seem like a Code Red emergency to most people. But for a growing cadre of scientists, figuring out how to alert our distant descendants to perilous nuclear waste entombed hundreds of metres (feet) below ground has become a fascinating task. ... read more
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US 'won't allow' Iran to shut key Gulf oil route
Manama (AFP) June 30, 2008The commander of the US navy's Fifth Fleet warned on Monday that the United States will not allow Iran to shut the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf sea lane through which much of the world's oil is supplied. "They will not close it... They will not be allowed to close it," Vice-Admiral Kevin J. Cosgriff told a press conference in Bahrain, where the Fifth Fleet is based. His remarks followed ... more Oxygen Ions For Fuel Cells Get Loose At Lower Temperatures 
Gaithersburg MD (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously thought possible. The finding announced this month in Nature Materials may be key ... more New Discovery Could Enable Development Of Faster Computers 
Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers. ... more Wells Fargo Offers Solar Home Program In California 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Wells Fargo Home Mortgage says it is one of the first mortgage lenders in California to market a new construction solar home program. Wells Fargo will let home builders pass the state's solar rebate directly to buyers at loan closing to use with their down payment or as a permanent interest-rate buy down to lower monthly payments. In the past, builders would simply reduce the price ... more Quantum computing in semiconductors doable 
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) Jun 30, 2008 U.S. physicists say the odd behavior of a molecule in an experimental silicon chip may lead to the possibility of achieving quantum computing in semiconductors. Purdue University researchers say they've created a hybrid molecule in which its quantum state can be intentionally manipulated -- a required step in the building of quantum computers. "Up to now large-scale quantum ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 30, 2008India on Monday released a national plan to tackle climate change with a focus on renewable energy, but stuck by its refusal to specify targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, the country will gradually move towards renewable sources of energy and focus on solar energy. "We must pioneer a graduated shift from economic activity based on ... more Germany to start storing carbon dioxide underground 
Berlin (AFP) June 30, 2008Germany was due to inaugurate Europe's first underground carbon dioxide storage site on Monday, the country's national geoscience institute said. The site at Ketzin, outside Berlin, is part of a European project dubbed CO2SINK which aims to test whether capturing and storing carbon dioxide in subterranean rock is a viable way of fighting global warming, the GFZ centre in Potsdam said. ... more Fluor To Help With Plateau Remediation At DOE's Hanford Site 
Irving TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2008Fluor has announced it was named part of the winning team to execute the Plateau Remediation Contract (PRC) at the Hanford Site in Washington State. The winning team is headed by CH2M HILL, which will serve as the prime contractor for the Department of Energy (DOE) with Fluor serving as a key subcontractor. The PRC is a multi-year project focusing on the safe, environmental cleanup ... more SVTC Solar Partners With Roth And Rau To Provide Complete Solar Cell Manufacturing Line 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jul 01, 2008SVTC Technologies has announced that it has signed a collaboration agreement with world-recognized solar equipment manufacturer Roth and Rau AG of Germany. Under the agreement, Roth and Rau will collaborate with SVTC's Solar business unit and provide a complete silicon wafer solar cell development and manufacturing line for SVTC Solar's new Silicon Valley Photovoltaic Development Center ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) June 30, 2008China has unveiled a more advanced home-made turboprop aeroplane, moving a step closer to its ambitious goal of becoming one of the world's major propeller plane providers, state press said. The 60-seat "Modern Ark 600" (MA600), comparable to versions from Canada's Bombardier and France's ATR, was launched on Sunday, with deliveries to customers expected to start next year, the Xinhua news a ... more Unravelling The Inconvenient Truth Of Glacier Movement 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 30, 2008Predicting climate change depends on many factors not properly included in current forecasting models, such as how the major polar ice caps will move in the event of melting around their edges. This in turn requires greater understanding of the processes at work when ice is under stress, influencing how it flows and moves. The immediate objective is to model the flow of ice sheets and ... more Kazakhstan To Introduce State Monopoly On Caviar Sales 
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008The lower house of the Kazakh parliament has approved in its first reading a bill to introduce a state monopoly on caviar production and sales, the parliamentary press service said on Wednesday. The move comes as part of an effort to combat the declining sturgeon population in the Caspian Sea, which has dwindled almost forty-fold in the last 15 years due to rampant poaching in the region. ... more Database Shows Effects Of Acid Rain On Microorganisms In Adirondack Lakes 
Bolton Landing NY (SPX) Jun 30, 2008Prior to the federal Clean Air Act, unhindered industrial emissions were released into the air throughout the Midwestern and Eastern United States for decades. Many of those harmful chemicals came right back down to earth in the form of acid rain, a chemical concoction that includes nitric and sulfuric acid. Researchers have long known that acid rain can severely decrease the diversity of ... more
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