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Day4 Energy's Solar Technology Reduces Solar Electricity Costs

Burnaby, Canada (SPX) Aug 01, 2008
Day4 Energy has announced that it has achieved a major breakthrough in its R and D program focused on the design and development of high performance solar cells. After months of intensive research and experimental trials, the company has developed a design and manufacturing process for its Generation II solar cells with efficiency up to 19 percent on mono-crystalline and 18 percent on ... more

Israel voices concern at German-Iranian gas project

Jerusalem (AFP) July 31, 2008
Israel expressed concern on Thursday about a German company's contract to build three liquefied natural gas plants in Iran amid sanctions aimed at halting Tehran's nuclear enrichment programme. "The ministry will talk to the highest officials within the German government to obtain clarification and express its concern over the fact that the German office of export controls gave its green ... more

City Tour For Solar Will Educate Leaders And Communities

Beltsville MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2008
A solar tour will bring interactive educational exhibits to 50 cities in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota and Colorado beginning Friday, August 1. The tour will span 100 days and educate municipal leaders, community members, public schools, universities and utilities on how to make solar energy a meaningful power resource for their cities. The ... more

ENERGY NEWS

California threat to sue US govt over ship, aircraft emissions

Los Angeles (AFP) July 31, 2008
California said Thursday it planned to sue the US government for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, construction and agricultural equipment. In the latest legal threat from the state against the Environmental Protection Agency, California's Attorney General Jerry Brown said the body was "wantonly ignoring" its duty to set pollution standards. California is ... more

Analysis: Turkmenistan and Gazprom

Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2008
Eurocrats perturbed by Gazprom's growing dominance of Europe's natural gas market and its hardball capitalist tactics, take heart -- several days ago Gazprom's mighty CEO Alexei Miller was humbled by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. In tough negotiations Berdimuhamedov forced Miller to agree to pay "market rates" for future long-term deliveries of Turkmen gas, according to a brief ... more

Spire Enters Multi-Year Contract With Trina Solar

SolFocus 3 MW Spanish CPV Solar Project

Scientists Demonstrate Highly Directional Semiconductor Lasers

Quantum Ships Carbon Composite Hydrogen Storage To Japan

Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide has announced that it has designed, developed and shipped a new generation of ultra light weight advanced composite hydrogen storage units for Suzuki Motor Corporation's Fuel Cell Vehicle Program. These unique systems for Suzuki were developed, analyzed, and tested to meet the Japanese Government requirements. The higher fuel density ... more

Louisiana Enacts Comprehensive Advanced Biofuel Legislation

Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Aug 01, 2008
Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Advanced Biofuel Industry Development Initiative, the most comprehensive and far-reaching state legislation in the nation enacted to develop a statewide advanced biofuel industry. Louisiana is the first state to enact alternative transportation fuel legislation that includes a variable blending pump pilot program and a hydrous ethanol pilot program. ... more

CIVIL NUCLEAR

EDF board backs acquisition of British Energy: source

Paris (AFP) July 31, 2008
State electricity company Electricite de France could make an official announcement Friday of a bid to acquire nuclear power operator British Energy after the French group's directors backed the move. EDF, the world's largest nuclear power suppliers and already Europe's number one electricity producer, has invited journalists and analysts to a press conference Friday morning after the ... more

Clear Skies Solar To Install PV System On McGowan Builders' Headquarters

New York NY (SPX) Aug 01, 2008
Clear Skies Solar has announced a contract with McGowan Builders to install a solar energy system at the company's new headquarters in East Rutherford, NJ. Under the contract, Clear Skies Solar (CSS) will install a 122 kw solar photovoltaic system, composed of 610 Suntech 200 watt solar panels, designed to offset the majority of buildings' current energy usage charges. Ezra Green ... more

Cyprus probes serial tree killings

Analysis: Attacks clip Shell production

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Direct Evidence Of Dark Energy In Supervoids And Superclusters

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Teacher sent to labour camp for China quake photos

FARM NEWS

No-Tillage Plus

Madison WI (SPX) Jul 31, 2008
Tropical soils often behave differently than temperate soils when being farmed. In tropical regions, soils lose nutrients quickly when cultivated. With food shortages looming and soil quality declining rapidly, new farming techniques are needed to make tropical and sub-tropical farming more productive and sustainable. New research from Agronomy Journal shows that no-till management ... more

WOOD PILE

Nicosia (AFP) July 30, 2008
A Cypriot businessman and his brother appeared in court on Wednesday on suspicion they destroyed scores of pine trees because they were obstructing the view of advertising billboards. The advertising company owner and his brother are accused of destroying 233 pine trees mainly on public highways on the island by injecting pesticide or herbicide through holes drilled into the trunks. ... more

Walker's World: Why world trade stalled

Amsterdam, Netherlands (UPI) Jul 29, 2008
The failure of the Doha Round of the world trade talks, for the third time in a row, means the looming global economic slowdown is going to be rather worse than it might have been and that developing countries will suffer the most. World merchandise exports, which had been growing at an average 8 percent a year from 2004 to 2007, are down to 4 percent growth this year and dropping fast. ... more

Trade justice and green groups welcome WTO failure

Paris (AFP) July 30, 2008
Anti-globalisation lobby groups and environmental charities united Wednesday in welcoming the collapse of the WTO talks in Geneva, with Greenpeace calling it "no loss." Negotiators gave up on a deal late Tuesday night after nine-days of fraught talks -- after nearly seven years of seeking a deal in the so-called "Doha" round of liberalising global trade subsidies and tariffs. "It's a ... more

India, China: top trade powers, different styles

Dismayed powers urge salvaging of wrecked WTO talks