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Outside View: The Great Recession College Park, Md., April 27, 2009 
Economists expect a late-year economic recovery, but their conviction appears failing.
Forecasters predict more than 630,000 jobs will be lost in April -- an annual pace exceeding 7.5 million. Meltdowns at General Motors and Chrysler portend more hemorrhaging and depression-like conditions in the Midwest.
Team Obama is quick to claim employment is a lagging indicator, but the eco ... read moreNew Hope For Biomass Fuels 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 28, 2009Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have discovered a potential chink in the armor of fibers that make the cell walls of certain inedible plant materials so tough. The insight ultimately could lead to a cost-effective and energy-efficient strategy for turning biomass into alternative fuels. In separate papers published in Biophysical Journal and recently in an issue of Biomacromolec ... more
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Hydrogen Protects Nuclear Fuel In Final Storage
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 28, 2009When Sweden's spent nuclear fuel is to be permanently stored, it will be protected by three different barriers. Even if all three barriers are damaged, the nuclear fuel will not dissolve into the groundwater, according to a new doctoral dissertation from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. By Midsummer it will be announced where Sweden's spent nuclear fuel will be permanently stor ... more Double-Action Power Stations: Energy And Hydrogen 
Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Apr 28, 2009Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal. A catalyst would convert methane into hydrogen gas and combustible coke, allowing the power station to produce hydrogen alongside electricity. Gadi Rothenberg and colleagues at the University of Amsterdam and at IRCE Lyon report in Green Chemistry ... more Construction Complete On World's Largest Clean Coal Plant 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2009White Energy has completed construction of the first one million tonne per annum (MTPA) clean coal upgrading modular plant at Bayan's Tabang mine in East Kalimantan. The plant utilizes WEC's exclusively licensed Binderless Coal Briquetting ("BCB") clean coal upgrading technology. As a result of the successful construction of the first plant at Tabang combined with the modular nature of the ... more  |
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US Senators target Iran's gas imports
Washington (AFP) April 27, 2009US Senators have crafted legislation aimed at choking off Iran's gasoline imports to break its defiance of global demands to freeze its suspect nuclear program, their offices said Monday. The bill, which has the support of 23 senators from both major US parties, would empower President Barack Obama to punish petroleum exporters supplying Iran, including a ban on doing business in the United ... more China expects new loans to surge 57 pct 
Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2009New loans in China are expected to surge by more than 57 percent in 2009, state media said Monday, as banks heed the government's call for more credit to boost growth amid the global crisis. Chinese banks are forecast to extend at least eight trillion yuan (1.2 trillion dollars) in new loans this year, said Cai Esheng, vice chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, according to th ... more Yemeni forces free seized oil tanker: defence ministry 
Sanaa (AFP) April 27, 2009Yemeni forces have freed an oil tanker seized off Yemen's coast and arrested 11 pirates on board, the defence ministry said on Monday. The empty Yemeni oil tanker, named Qana, was captured on Sunday, sparking a battle with Yemeni marine troops in which two pirates were killed and one wounded. Two Yemeni coast guards were wounded in the clash. "Yemeni forces have freed an oil tanker ... more China, Taiwan deals signal more cooperation: state media 
Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2009A batch of agreements signed by China and rival Taiwan to deepen economic and transport ties mark a milestone that signals even broader future cooperation, state media said on Monday. "With substantial progress made this time, we have reason to look forward to broader vistas of cooperation in the days ahead," the official English-language China Daily, which targets a foreign audience, said ... more |
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