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US lawmaker pushes for quick growth of wind powerWashington (AFP) April 30, 2010 Democratic lawmaker Rush Holt told AFP on Friday that in view of the disastrous oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico the United States should quickly focus on developing wind power along its coasts. "We should be moving rapidly on those projects," said the New Jersey representative. Holt's comments followed Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's go-ahead Wednesday to the first US offshore wind farm project, a billion-dollar effort to tap the steady wind in the Atlantic near northeastern Massachusetts state ... read more |
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Ames IO (SPX) May 03, 2010They can't wait to do computational chemistry at a quadrillion calculations per second. But it's not all that computing power that's driving three Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers as they develop computational chemistry at the petascale. Driving their project is the ability to run complex calculations and do better science. "Petascale power is required for accuracy," s ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2010French energy producer EDF will sign an agreement to join the South Stream gas pipeline project with Russia's energy giant Gazprom and Italy's Eni during the International Economic Forum due in Russia's second city of St. Petersburg on June 17-19, Gazprom has said. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that Gazprom and Eni will each give 10% of their shares in the proje ... more  
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2010China pledged to take a greater role in global issues Thursday as it vowed to work with the European Union on nuclear non-proliferation, energy security and climate change. In wide-ranging talks between Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the two sides also agreed to to fight protectionism and tear down trade barriers. "China will undertake g ... more |
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Food and water drive Africa land grabNairobi, Kenya (UPI) Apr 29, 2010 Rich Arab states such as Saudi Arabia have bought huge tracts of land across Africa in recent years in a bid to combat global food shortages, water scarcity and desertification and feed their burgeoning populations. But now the scramble for Africa is intensifying, with investment banks, hedge funds, commodity traders, sovereign wealth funds, corporations and business tycoons out to grab some of the world's cheapest land - for profit. China has leased 6.91 million acres in the Democratic ... read more |
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