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Analysis: Green sector may save economy Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Jan 20, 2009 
A renewable energy "revolution" is taking place in the heart of the global oil industry here on the Arabian Peninsula, where world leaders and experts at a summit on tomorrow's energy say it may not only save the climate but also help revive today's ailing global economy.
Matthias Machnig, a state secretary at the German Environment Ministry, said the world is "at the beginning of the ... read moreChina, EU should 'unite' to tackle economic crisis: foreign minister 
Lisbon (AFP) Jan 21, 2009China and the European Union should unite to overcome the global economic crisis, the country's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said Wednesday. "Especially in the context of the current international financial crisis, China and the EU should work together to tackle the crisis," he said at the end of a meeting in Lisbon with Portuguese counterpart Luis Amado. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao begin ... more
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India welcomes Canada's involvement in its nuclear expansion: minister
Ottawa (AFP) Jan 21, 2009India welcomes Canada's "strong involvement" in the expansion of its nuclear power capacity, Canada's Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Wednesday. Day, on a four-day visit to the world's most populous democracy, also indicated in a statement that Canada aims to finalize a bilateral nuclear cooperation agreement with India "as soon as possible." "I was encouraged by the very positive resp ... more Russia May Build Belarus Nuclear Plant Without Tender 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009Russia will be able to build a nuclear power plant in Belarus without a tender once the two ex-Soviet republics sign an inter-governmental agreement on civilian nuclear power use, Russia's Rosatom said Wednesday. Russia and Belarus agreed to sign the inter-governmental agreement in the first quarter of 2009 during talks on Wednesday between the Belarusian government and a Rosatom delegatio ... more Spain's Iberdrola, Britain's SSE plan nuclear joint venture 
Madrid (AFP) Jan 20, 2009Spain's Iberdrola and Britain's Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) will join forces to build new nuclear power stations in Britain, a spokesman for the Spanish firm said Tuesday. The two firms will create a joint venture which will compete for contracts to build nuclear power station in Britain, he told AFP. Britain approved the construction of a new generation of nuclear plants last Jan ... more  |
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China's Wen warns of tough economic year ahead: state media
Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2009Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has warned the nation's economy faces the toughest year since 2000, pledging a range of measures aimed at curbing the downturn, state media said Tuesday. "This year is the most difficult year for China's economic development so far this century," Wen told a meeting of the State Council, or cabinet, held on Monday, the Xinhua news agency reported. "We must turn ... more Was The Economic Crisis Predicted Thirty Years Ago 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 16, 2009The current economic crisis came as a bolt from the blue for most. In the meantime, experts warned in the early 1970s that the world economy was heading for a crisis in the first decades of the 21st century. In the 1960s, Western countries concluded that oil-stained beaches, smoggy megalopolises, and heavy pollution of major European rivers were too high a price for the benefits of mass ... more Suntech Solar Panels To Power Largest PV Solar Project In Middle East 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2009Suntech Power Holdings has announced it has supplied 5MW of Suntech solar panels for a 10MW solar electricity system to power Masdar City, the world's first carbon neutral city being built in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The panels will form part of the largest solar plant in the Middle East and is being built and designed by leading Abu Dhabi based solar power system integrator, Envir ... more Solar Energy Harvesting Kit Enables Permanently-Powered Wireless Sensor Networks 
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 21, 2009As wireless network systems designers look to alternative energy sources, Texas Instruments announced a solar energy harvesting (SEH) development kit that converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications. The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation's EnerChip(TM) thin-film battery technology with TI's MSP4 ... more |
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