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Floating ocean wind turbines proposedCollege Park, Md. (UPI) Jun 30, 2010 Wind turbines as a renewable energy source have problems of noise, visual clutter and land use, and one U.S. researcher says moving them offshore is a solution. Offshore wind farms have been built, but only in shallow water near coasts, and one naval architect wants to go much farther out by placing turbines on floating platforms, a release from the American Institute of Physics said Wednesday. Dominique Roddier of Marine Innovation & Technology of Berkeley, Calif., has proposed a platfo ... read more |
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San Francisco (AFP) June 30, 2010Yahoo! has set the stage to buy back three billion dollars worth of its stock in the coming three years, according to a filing Wednesday with US securities regulators. The plan was approved by the Yahoo! board of directors on June 24 and authorizes the pioneering Internet firm to repurchase as much as three billion dollars in common stock during the next three years. "The repurchases may ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 30, 2010Animal welfare groups Wednesday sued BP for burning endangered sea turtles and asked a federal court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf of Mexico spill. "It is horrifying that these innocent creatures whose habitat has already been devastated by the oil spill are now being burned alive," Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) President Cathy Liss told the court in Louisiana. ... more 
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) June 30, 2010The Obama appointee managing BP's oil spill disaster fund said Wednesday there's "not enough money in the world" to pay all claims and suggested home owners with plunging property values could lose out. The warning from prominent US lawyer Kenneth Feinberg came as Hurricane Alex disrupted clean-up operations in the Gulf of Mexico and pushed oil deeper into fragile coastal wetlands and once-p ... more |
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S.Korea's Doosan wins 3.9 billion dollar reactor orderSeoul (AFP) July 1, 2010 Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction, South Korea's leading power equipment manufacturer, said Thursday it had won a 3.9 billion dollar order to provide nuclear reactors to the United Arab Emirates. The order came from state-run Korea Electric Power Corp. Last December a KEPCO-led consortium won a landmark 20 billion dollar deal to design, build and operate four 1,400-megawatt reactors by 2020 in the UAE. South Korea, which generates 30 percent of its electricity from nuclear power, is eage ... read more |
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