Analysis: Brazil debates oil fortune
Brazil has just tapped into the first of its newfound pre-salt oil discoveries, and already lawmakers are looking for ways to spend the expected multibillion-dollar windfall. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a longtime champion of the left whose monetary policy has been somewhat conservative during his first six years in office, said the country's oil profits should be spent ... read more
Federal solar energy system is inaugurated
Washington (UPI) Sep 9, 2008
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman inaugurated a solar energy system Tuesday at the department's headquarters in Washington.
The new system involves a 205 kilowatt photovoltaic solar array placed on the roof of the building. The photovoltaic system is 40- to 50 times the size of a typical residential PV system and is one of the largest in the Washington area, officials ... more
'Emissions-free' power plant pilot fires up in Germany
Spremberg, Germany (AFP) Sept 9, 2008
One of Europe's biggest power firms inaugurated a prototype coal-fired power station on Tuesday it says is almost emissions-free but environmentalists were less than impressed. Located on the site of the existing Schwarze Pumpe power station in eastern Germany, Sweden's Vattenfall said the new technology has the potential to allow coal to be burnt without releasing harmful greenhouse gases. ... more
China passenger car sales in first fall for more than three years
Shanghai (AFP) Sept 9, 2008
China's passenger car sales fell last month from a year earlier, an industry group said Tuesday, the first monthly drop since early 2005 as the economy slowed and the Olympics deterred car purchases. Sales of the cars, including sedans, multi-purpose vehicles and sports utility vehicles, fell 6.24 percent year on year for August to 451,300 units, the China Association of Automobile ... more
End to India nuclear isolation opens huge market
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 9, 2008
The end to India's nuclear pariah statuspaves the way for atomicfuel and technology sales worth tens of billions of dollars and companies are racing to exploit the market, officials say. A host of companies -- from Westinghouse Electric Co and General Electric of the United States, France's state-controlled Areva to Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom -- have been jockeying for a slice of ... more
Outside View: Russia changes nuke plant
Moscow (UPI) Sep 9, 2008
The birthplace of the first-ever floating nuclear power plant will be the Baltic Sea instead of the White Sea. The formal keel-laying ceremony took place in April 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard of the Russian State Center for Nuclear Shipbuilding in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region. After about a year and a half, the state-owned corporation Rosatom revoked the general contract, handing it ... more
|
|
SOLAR DAILY
Sunrise Solar Launches R And D Division
ENERGY TECH
Putting The Squeeze On Nitrogen For High Energy Materials
ENERGY TECH
Pennsylvania Governor Touts Potential Of Cellulosic Biofuels
|
|
|
Oil prices slide to five-month lows before OPEC meet
London (AFP) Sept 9, 2008
Oil prices slumped close to 101 dollars on Tuesday, their lowest level since the start of April, as the market waited to see whether OPEC would announce a cut in output levels later in the day. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in October dropped as low as 101.27 dollars a barrel. It later stood at 102.26 dollars, a loss of 1.18 dollars from Monday's close. New York's main contract ... more
Outside View: Russia may lose nuke fuel
Moscow (UPI) Sep 8, 2008
Australia has not remained immune to the "Georgian incident." Canberra reportedly has warned Moscow that it may put on hold agreements on uranium supplies to Russia. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has not received any Australian diplomatic note, oral or written, and neither has Russia's Nuclear Power Agency, Rosatom. And will they? If the agreement in question is heading for cancellation, both ... more
Phoenix Suns, EI Solutions And Tioga Energy Team Up On Solar Energy System
San Mateo CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2008
EI Solutions and Tioga Energy have announced plans to provide the Phoenix Suns with the power of the sun. The companies will install a 194-kilowatt solar system to supply power to the team's home arena, US Airways Center, which is owned by the City of Phoenix. The project was formally announced at a press conference by Suns guard and two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash, Suns General Manager Steve ... more
SBD International To Build Thin Film Solar Cell Manufacturing Facility
Fort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Sep 10, 2008
Management of SBD International has announced it is planning to build a thin film solar panel plant in Florida to serve the Caribbean and South American markets. CEO C. Michael Nurse stated, "We have signed a Letter Of Intent with TGI/Solar Power Gr (TSPG) to be a licensee of their thin film solar panel product and to have TGI Solar 18 be the supplier for an 18 MW capacity plant in Florida ... more
|
|
ENERGY TECH
Taxes on diesel, carbon split rivals in Canada election
TRADE WARS
Top Chinese economic official to hold talks in US
SOLAR DAILY
UCLA San Diego Forests Parking Areas With Solar Trees From Envision Solar
|
|
|
Russia's Venezuela gambit a test for US: analysts
Brussels (AFP) Sept 9, 2008
Russia's decision to send warships to the Caribbean is not just a riposte to US navy manoeuvres in the Black Sea, but a sign of Moscow's determination to contest American influence, say analysts. Russia announced Monday it was sending a nuclear cruiser and other warships and planes for joint exercises with Venezuela, the first such manoeuvres in the US vicinity since the Cold War. ... more
Michigan Integral To World's Largest Physics Experiment
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 09, 2008
After 20 years of construction, a machine that could either verify or nullify the prevailing theory of particle physics is about to begin its mission. CERN's epic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project currently involves 25 University of Michigan physicists and students. More than 100 U-M researchers have been involved in the project over the years. CERN is the European Organization for ... more
Russian Nuke Cruise In Venezuela Manoeuvres As US Watches
Moscow (AFP) Sept 8, 2008
Russia said Monday it was dispatching a nuclear cruiser and other warships and planes to the Caribbean for joint exercises with Venezuela, the first such manoeuvres in the US vicinity since the Cold War. The announcement came amid soaring tensions between Russia and the United States, including over the presence of US naval vessels sent close to Russian shores to deliver aid to Georgia, but ... more
Euro-Russo Split Widens Part One
Moscow (UPI) Sep 8, 2008
Russia's Defense Ministry has officially informed NATO headquarters in Brussels of its decision to suspend all military cooperation with its counterparts in the alliance. The move came after similar notices were received by the defense ministries of Norway, Estonia and Latvia. This means that all joint events between the Russian army and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... more
|
|
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Ike death toll in Haiti climbs to 61, including many children
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Global Sea-Rise Levels By 2100 May Be Lower Than Some Predict
|
|
|
| The contents herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2007 - SpaceDaily. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy statement |
|
