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Bill Gates-Toshiba talk nuclear power Tokyo (UPI) Mar 24, 2009 Japan's Toshiba and TerraPower, a company backed by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, are in talks about a nuclear power venture. Gates is the principal owner of TerraPower, a spinoff from Seattle's Intellectual Ventures, founded by former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold. The company explores ways to improve emission-free energy supplies through small nuclear reactors. An agreement between the companies could be a boom to the creation of a traveling-wave reactor that runs ... read more |
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Berlin (AFP) March 22, 2010Sound pollution from offshore wind turbines poses a threat to Baltic Sea porpoises, a German marine mammal specialist said on Monday. "It was highlighted that wind turbines are so noisy that the harbour porpoises in the Baltic Sea are threatened," Harald Benke, the director of Germany's Sea Museum, told AFP. "There are methods to reduce the noise. They are costly but allow the considerab ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Mar 22, 2009 U.S. solar power firm First Solar and several other companies recently joined the Desertec project, which is aimed at powering Europe's homes with green electricity from North Africa. Italian utility Enel, Spanish grid operator Red Electrica, French building materials maker Saint Gobain and Moroccan energy holding Nareva joined the Desertec project, the initiative said Monday. Th ... more  
Berlin (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 The German publishing industry is facing accusations that production of its books is destroying rainforests in Asia, thus enforcing climate change and the loss of wildlife. Germans are serious book enthusiasts. The industry is Europe's biggest, with more than 1 billion books printed in 2008 - that's around 12 books for every German. While reading is to be commended, the paper u ... more |
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SSTL Welcomes British Government's Space Industry SupportLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 24, 2010 Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) welcomes the British Government's response to Lord Drayson's Space Innovation and Growth Strategy report. This morning, Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills announced a programme of support that included the launch of the UK's first national space agency, a small satellite programme to showcase state of the art technologies to the world, and the formation of a working group to give serious consideration to a dedicated UK Earth ob ... read more |
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