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Obama panel urges US backing for clean coalWashington (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 A task force to President Barack Obama called Thursday for a strong government role to promote clean coal, potentially accepting liability over carbon storage sites for thousands of years to come. Obama had asked the panel to recommend how to promote carbon capture and storage, or CCS, a largely undeveloped technology that aims to prevent carbon emissions blamed for global warming from entering the atmosphere. While some environmentalists dismiss CCS as untested and costly, the United States alo ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) Aug 12, 2010BP relaunched Thursday operations to finish a relief well and permanently seal its catastrophic Macondo well after a brief suspension due to a storm in the Gulf of Mexico. The remnants of a weakened tropical system halted work on the busted well on Wednesday and overnight Thursday, and thousands of workers had to be pulled off clean-up efforts along the battered Gulf coast. It was first ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Aug 12, 2010Here is a list of sensitive nuclear sites threatened by the spread of fires raging in Russia since late July. - SAROV NUCLEAR PLANT Russia is stepping up efforts to halt wildfires near its main nuclear research site, where nuclear weapons are also made, at Sarov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 500 kilometres (310 miles) to the east of Moscow. While no blazes had been registered on th ... more  
Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2010The fast-growing use of cell phones in Africa - where many people lack the basic human necessities - has made Africa's Cell Phone Boom Can't Trump Dire Need For Schools, Roads, Power, Waters worldwide the past few years. The surprising boom has led to widespread speculation - and hope - that cell phones could potentially transform the impoverished continent. But new research by econo ... more |
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'Dark matter' search to go undergroundChicago (UPI) Aug 11, 2010 U.S. physicists say they'll take their search to find and identify the universe's "dark matter" to new depths - into a Canadian mine almost a mile underground. University of Chicago researchers will take bubble chambers, instruments that can detect cosmic particles, to SNOLab, part of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in Ontario, Canada, a university release said Wednesday. They're hoping dark matter particles will leave tracks as they pass through the liquid in the chambers. Dark ... read more |
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