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Glitch delays solar plane's historic night flightPayerne, Switzerland (AFP) July 1, 2010 A technical glitch grounded a pioneering bid to fly a solar-powered plane through the night Thursday, leaving the Solar Impulse crew with just weeks to find perfect weather for the flight. "We are under stress and we hope everything will work," said Bertrand Piccard, the venture's founder and previously the first balloonist to circumnavigate the globe. Solar Impulse aborted plans for the historic 25-hour flight just an hour before pilot Andre Borschberg was due to take off from a military airbas ... read more |
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Harvey IL (SPX) Jul 02, 2010Unistrut International Corporation's Energy Solutions division now offers pre-engineered racking systems, demonstrating a cost-effective support structure for photovoltaic panels in a wide variety of solar applications, including rooftop, ground and ballast-mounted installations. PV panels can be mounted in a portrait or landscape format. "Pre-engineered solutions provide labor and materia ... more  
New York (AFP) July 1, 2010Oil prices plummeted on Thursday, hammered by a batch of weak economic data on the United States and China, the world's two biggest energy consumers. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in August, slumped closed 2.68 dollars lower at 72.95 dollars a barrel. In London, Brent North Sea crude for August sank 2.67 dollars to settle at 72.34 dollars a barrel. "All the ... more  
Stockholm (AFP) July 1, 2010A court in central Sweden on Thursday handed out fines to 29 Greenpeace activists who broke into a nuclear power plant earlier this month, according to judicial sources. The activists - 13 Germans, eight Poles, four Danes, a Frenchman, a Finn, a Swede and a Briton - were given fines ranging from 190 to 1,600 euros (230-2,000 dollars) for trespassing, according to a copy of the judgment by ... more |
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Not enough 'money in the world' for all BP spill claimsNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 1, 2010 The Obama appointee managing BP's oil spill disaster fund said 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-pristine beaches. The storm made landfall late Wednesday south of the US border with Mexico as a Category Two hurrica ... read more |
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