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Turkey signed a landmark deal with four EU countries on Monday to pipe gas from the Caspian region, reducing Europe's reliance on Russian deliveries and rivalling Moscow's own pipeline project. The United States hailed the signing of the accord by the prime ministers of Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey -- a milestone in the Nabucco pipeline project much delayed by lack of ... read more
Geneva (AFP) July 13, 2009An international agreement against climate change could hinge around steps to ease the transfer of green technology to developing countries, a Brazilian official said on Monday. His comments at a World Intellectual Property Organisation conference came amid signs of a rift between rich and poor nations over the best approach to take on patented technology that can be used to tackle global ... more
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Berlin (AFP) July 13, 2009Speculation swirled around the troubled German automaker Opel on Monday, with conflicting news about an offer by Beijing-based auto group BAIC and a new overture by Belgium-based investor RHJ International. The German government denied a media report which said Berlin feared a "dangerous dependence" on China if BAIC were to take over Opel. Mass circulation daily Bild earlier cited an ... more 
Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 T. Boone's Pickens, whose ambitious Texas wind farm plan ran into distribution problems, is turning to natural gas in his attempt to lessen U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Two years ago Pickens, a Texan who became a billionaire in the oil business and now runs the BP Capital Management hedge fund, announced that he planned to erect the largest wind farm in the world in the Texas Panhand ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 13, 2009Top US and Chinese leaders will meet for the first "strategic and economic dialogue" with the administration of President Barack Obama in Washington July 27-28, US officials said Monday. The dialogue "will focus on addressing the challenges and opportunities that both countries face on a wide range of bilateral, regional and global areas of immediate and long-term strategic and economic ... more  
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 14, 2009Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically active semiconductors in arrays of nanoscale pillars, each a single crystal, with dimensions measured in billionths of a meter. ... more |
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Vienna (AFP) July 13, 2009Environmental group Greenpeace blasted the signing in Ankara Monday of a deal on the Nabucco gas pipeline, urging countries instead to invest in cheaper and cleaner energy. "Over the next few years, power from solar energy will become significantly cheaper than natural gas," Jurrien Westerhof, energy expert for Greenpeace Austria, said in a statement. "With the Nabucco deal, Austria is ... more 
New York (AFP) July 13, 2009A Russian Internet company is offering to buy 100 million dollars worth of stock from Facebook employees in a deal which values the fast-growing social network at 6.5 billion dollars. The Russian company, Digital Sky Technologies (DST), which invested 200 million dollars in Facebook in May, is offering 14.77 dollars per share of Facebook common stock. The tender offer will close "some ... more  
Kingsville, Ontario (UPI) Jul 13, 2009 A cogeneration plant for a commercial greenhouse opened Friday in Ontario, the first of its kind in North America. Designed by GE Energy, the greenhouse facility is powered by four of GE Energy's Jenbacher gas engines, using a carbon dioxide fertilization technology developed by Jenbacher. The plant is designed to generate more reliable on-site power and heat while reducing ... more 
Shanghai (AFP) July 13, 2009Strained price negotiations between China's steel mills and iron ore producers are continuing, a Chinese official said Monday, despite Rio Tinto's lead negotiator being arrested on spy charges. The China Iron and Steel Association, which represents Chinese mills in the talks, said the negotiations had not been suspended after Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, who represented producers, was ... more |
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