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Can Hungary's Red Sludge Be Made Less Toxic With CarbonBloomington IN (SPX) Oct 18, 2010 The red, metal-laden sludge that escaped a containment pond in Hungary last week could be made less toxic with the help of carbon sequestration, says an Indiana University Bloomington geologist who has a patent pending on the technique. The bauxite residue now covers 40 square kilometers south of the Danube River, and has caused the deaths of eight Hungarians and injured at least 150. The residue also has caused the extinction of life in a local river and as yet unknown environmental damage elsewh ... read more |
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Moscow (UPI) Oct 18, 2010 A top Gazprom manager was found dead in his car with a gunshot wound to his head. Police said Sergei Klyuka, the chief economist of the finance department at Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom, died Saturday of a single gunshot wound, RIA Novosti reports. Investigators say they believe the man committed suicide, because police found his body in his locked car with a C ... more  
Budapest (AFP) Oct 18, 2010MAL, the company responsible for Hungary's toxic flood disaster, said Monday it would pay up to 5.5 million euros (7.6 million dollars) in compensation to victims over the next five years. MAL Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company "would be prepared to pay 1.5 billion forint (5.5 million euros) over five years by way of compensation for the victims of the toxic sludge catastrophe ... more  
Shanghai (AFP) Oct 18, 2010The head of the IMF on Monday warned central bankers that the global recovery would be "in peril" if the world's major economies do not keep working together, amid mounting fears of a currency war. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn made the comments at the end of a meeting in Shanghai that brought together high-level officials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and ... more |
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OPEL Solar Launches New Mk-IX High Concentration PV Solar Panel TechnologyShelton CT (SPX) Oct 19, 2010 OPEL Solar has announced the launch of its latest HCPV solar panel, the Mk-IX. The OPEL Solar Mk-IX High Concentration Photovoltaic Panel (HCPV) is a high performance, reliable, cost-effective product designed for utility grade grid-connected solar systems in medium to high solar irradiance climates. The Mk-IX Panel uses a dual-element refractive concentrator architecture, in combination with triple junction solar cells produced by Boeing-Spectrolab. The high efficiency of the OPEL Solar HCPV pane ... read more |
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