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Guilty verdicts 25 years after India's Bhopal gas disasterBhopal, India (AFP) June 7, 2010 An Indian court sentenced the former top managers of the company blamed for the massive Bhopal gas leak 25 years ago to two years in prison Monday in the first convictions for the disaster. Seven people were found guilty in the court in Bhopal, capital of the central state of Madhya Pradesh, over the incident, which poisoned tens of thousands of people in the world's worst industrial accident. A lethal plume of gas escaped from a storage tank at the US-owned Union Carbide pesticide factory on De ... read more |
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Canoga Park CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2010Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne received an award of up to $10.2 million from the Department of Energy to design and develop technologies aimed at significantly lowering electricity costs using a Concentrated Solar Power Tower with Thermal Storage (CSP Power Tower). "This award is a key step in reducing the cost of solar power to levels competitive with fossil fuel-based power without the nee ... more 
Durham NC (SPX) Jun 07, 2010A team of Duke University chemists has perfected a simple way to make tiny copper nanowires in quantity. The cheap conductors are small enough to be transparent, making them ideal for thin-film solar cells, flat-screen TVs and computers, and flexible displays. "Imagine a foldable iPad," said Benjamin Wiley, an assistant professor of chemistry at Duke. His team reports its findings online t ... more  
Sydney (AFP) June 4, 2010Australia's two-way trade with China is set to top 100 billion dollars (85 billion US) this year, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said Friday as he welcomed further investment from the Asian giant. China is Australia's largest trading partner and in 2009 became the country's biggest export market as it snaps up raw materials such as iron ore needed for its rapid industrialisation. Smith s ... more |
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Space Service Market Likely To Grow To Nine Billion By 2015Bangalore, India (PTI) Jun 07, 2010 There is lot of potential in the aerospace sector, with the space service market likely to grow to USD 7-9 billion by 2015, a top official of Antrix Corporation has said. However, the domestic market is currently worth USD 2-3 billion, said K R Sridhara Murthy, the Managing Director of Antrix Corporation, which is the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research. "We are looking at investments from groups like EADS (Netherlands). We want to double the production capacity of satellites to meet ... read more |
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