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Russia's Uranium Breakthrough Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2008 
Russia has overtaken Niger to become the world's fourth largest uranium producer, after Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan. Russia received its new rating in 2007, when it produced 3,527 tons of uranium. It has ambitious plans to mover even further up the league, based on promising deposits in Eastern Siberia and other regions, and opportunities for mutually advantageous cooperation with ... read more
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The Current Biofuel Market In India
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 17, 2008The 'Indian Biofuel Industry' report analyzes the current biofuel market in India. It focuses on the causes for the growing demand of biofuels, the manufacturing technologies for the production of biofuels and government regulations. This report also enumerates the opportunities and challenges faced by the biofuel industry in India along with the current trends, addressing the client needs ... more Small Businesses Goes Solar 
Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Jul 17, 2008Kyocera Solar and American Solar Electric have announced that a recently unveiled 19.2 kilowatt solar electric power system has tested at 106 percent of expected projections. The new system - independently tested by Phoenix's utility company, Salt River Project (SRP) - is installed at the Integrity Building Corp (IBC) headquarters in Mesa, Ariz., and has allowed the small business to save ... more OECD issues report critical of biofuels, favours moratorium 
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008The OECD favours a moratorium on expanding biofuel production, a senior official with the Paris-based body said on Wednesday following the release of a report critical of vegetable-based fuels. "It would make a lot of sense to have a moratorium," Stefan Tangermann, head of agriculture and trade analysis at the OECD told AFP. "All these programmes should be reconsidered because we found ... more New French giant GDF Suez interested in British nuclear sites 
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008Newly formed global energy giant GDF Suez of France is interested in nuclear power operator British Energy but only if the company is split up and sold off site by site. "If the plan remains to sell British Energy in one go, then it will be sold without us," said GDF Suez head Gerard Mestrallet in an interview with Les Echos daily to appear Thursday. To acquire the company in a bloc ... more Air China says it is to buy 45 Boeing aircraft 
Shanghai (AFP) July 16, 2008Flagship carrier Air China said its board has approved an agreement to buy 15 Boeing 777 and 30 Boeing 737 aircraft in a deal that would be worth several billion dollars. The catalogue price of the 45 planes is approximately 6.3 billion dollars but Air China said it expects Boeing to grant price concessions which will lower the overall cost, the carrier said in a statement late Tuesday. ... more |
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2008Solar Promotion International GmbH held a press conference on Tuesday, July 15th, to precede the opening conference session that formally inaugurates Intersolar North America 2008. The event took place at 10:30am in the Union Square room of the Intercontinental Hotel. The press conference provided an overview of the conference and exposition, reasons for expanding into North America, and a ... more Evergreen Solar Signs New Sales Contract With IBC Solar 
Marlboro MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2008Evergreen Solar has announced it has signed a new long-term sales contract valued at approximately $1.2 billion with German-based IBC SOLAR AG. This contract extends through 2013 and brings the company's total contractual backlog to nearly $3 billion with 5 customers. "We are very pleased to begin this significant long term relationship with IBC SOLAR, the largest PV distributor in ... more Chinese trade threatens Balkan economic growth: World Bank 
Sarajevo (AFP) July 16, 2008China's trade competitiveness is threatening to slow down economic growth in the Western Balkans, the World Bank warned on Wednesday. "China competes against the countries of the West Balkans ... in a very wide range of products," the bank's top economist for Europe and the Middle East, Sanjay Kathuria, told reporters in the Bosnian capital. "Against this, the exports of the countries in ... more British PM blasts polluting 'ghost' flights 
London (AFP) July 16, 2008British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday that airlines flying empty planes simply to maintain valuable airport slots were "unacceptable" due to their environmental impact. His comments came after a newspaper report claimed that Britain's third-biggest airline was planning to operate such so-called "ghost flights" to conserve slots at Heathrow, London's main airport. "It would ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2008WITH market analysts predicting a ten fold increase in the value of the organic light emitting display industry, from 1.5 billion pounds to 15.5 billion pounds, by 2014, it is no wonder that scientists and governments alike are keen to advance research into "plastic electronics". July's edition of Physics World includes an in-depth feature by three Israeli researchers, Marianna Khorzov and ... more Russia's Medvedev condemns Western 'paternalism' 
Moscow (AFP) July 15, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday attacked Western "paternalism" in a major foreign policy speech, singling out US and European policies on missile defence and Kosovo for criticism. "With the end of the Cold War, there is no reason to have a bloc mentality. There is also no reason for paternalism, where some countries decide everything for others," Medvedev said during a meeting ... more Recycling Contract Turns Trash Into Treasure 
Joint Base Balad, Iraq (AFNS) Jul 16, 2008War is messy -- literally -- but U.S. forces, contractors and Iraqis found a way to turn the military's trash into Iraq's economic treasure. Albu-Hussan-based Almandhour United Company oversees waste-management operations here following a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 10 that commemorated the opening of a recycling center here. "This is a great day for Joint Base Balad because we've ... more China quake sends 1.4 million back into poverty: report 
Beijing (AFP) July 15, 2008Up to 1.4 million people in remote villages in southwest China have slipped back into absolute poverty after the May 12 earthquake flattened their homes, state press said Tuesday. "In many counties, the hard-won anti-poverty achievements in the previous two decades disappeared within seconds," the China Daily quoted Fan Xiaojian, head of the central government's poverty alleviation office, a ... more
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