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Why Bringing Down The Electric Grid Is HardBurlington VT (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 Last March, the U.S. Congress heard testimony about a scientific study in the journal Safety Science. A military analyst worried that the paper presented a model of how an attack on a small, unimportant part of the U.S. power grid might, like dominoes, bring the whole grid down. Members of Congress were, of course, concerned. Then, a similar paper came out in the journal Nature the next month that presented a model of how a cascade of failing interconnected networks led to a blackout that covered ... read more |
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  Boeing Statement Regarding USDA-FAA Partnership On Aviation Biofuels Boeing Vice President, Environment and Aviation Policy, Billy M Glover, issued the following statement in the wake of an announcement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Aviation A ... more | .. |
 US Navy To Conduct Alternative Fuels Demo With Riverine Command Boat The U.S. Navy will conduct a full power demonstration of a Riverine Command Boat (experimental) powered by an alternative fuel blend of 50 percent algae-based and 50 percent NATO F-76 fuel aboard Na ... more | .. |
  Half The Productivity, Twice The Carbon Unless the IT industry adopts new energy-efficient technologies in the coming decade, it runs a serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the global economy if limits are placed on carbo ... more | .. |
  First Ever US Solar Jobs Census Finds Solar Employment On The Rise The Solar Foundation has released a first-of-its-kind review of the solar workforce in the United States. The report, titled, "National Solar Jobs Census 2010: A Review of the U.S. Solar Workforce" ... more | .. |
 Carlisle School District Unveils One Of Pensylvania's Largest Solar Arrays The Carlisle Area School District has unveiled a new 1.2 megawatt (MW) solar power array that will help educate as it provides clean renewable energy. Henkels and McCoy designed and constructed the ... more |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 26, 2010Solar Frontier has announced that it has signed an agreement to jointly develop thin film solar cell technology with IBM based on the elements copper, zinc, tin, sulfur, and selenium ("CZTS"). IBM and Solar Frontier will collaborate to expand upon IBM's innovations in this area. In February 2010, IBM announced record results of 9.6% efficient solar cells using CZTS material, a 40% efficien ... more  
Riyadh (AFP) Oct 25, 2010The Saudi government on Monday approved plans to establish a pact with Russia on peaceful nuclear cooperation, a government spokesman said. It authorised the head of the new King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energies to draft a pact with Moscow on nuclear cooperation, Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja told the official SPA news agency. It was the latest sign of the world's ... more  
London (AFP) Oct 25, 2010BP will not quit the United States over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster that had "threatened the very existence" of the energy giant, its new chief executive Bob Dudley said here on Monday. "I can promise you that I did not become chief executive of BP in order to walk away from the US. BP will not be quitting America," Dudley, who is a US national, told a conference of British business lead ... more |
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US approves world's biggest solar energy projectWashington (AFP) Oct 25, 2010 The United States approved on Monday a permit for the largest solar energy project in the world - four massive plants at the cost of one billion dollars each in southern California. "The Blythe solar power plant will consist of four, 250-Megawatt plants, built on public lands in the sun-drenched Mojave desert," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said. "When completed the project is expected to generate up to 1,000 Megawatts of energy... That's enough electricity to power up to 750,000 average Ameri ... read more |
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