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German electric car sets world recordBerlin (UPI) Oct 26, 2010 An electric car developed by a German company Tuesday set what organizers said is a world record when it drove 375 miles without recharging its battery. Mirko Hannemann, 27, drove the yellow and purple all-electric Audi A2 in seven hours from Munich to Berlin, where he arrived Tuesday morning. German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle, who jumped inside for a quick drive in the courtyard of his ministry, called Hannemann's trip a technological quantum leap. "No other electric car h ... read more |
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  Outside View: QE2 won't make big waves In November, the U.S. Federal Reserve will likely launch a second round of quantitative easing but don't expect QE2 to make big waves. The failure of the Group of 20 finance ministers talks permits China to continue to subvert Fed efforts to rekindle U.S. growth. ... more | .. |
  Shooting sharpens tensions with Chinese working in Zambia Red lanterns frame neat Chinese signs over the stalls at Lusaka's Luburma discount market, packed with Zambian bargain-hunters looking for deals on clothes, food and an endless variety of plastic objects. ... more | .. |
 Time to look beyond Chinese rare earths, says EU trade boss European Union trade commissioner Karel De Gucht on Tuesday urged global partners to diversify mining sources for prized rare earths as a battle with China deepened over scarce supplies. ... more | .. |
  US approves world's biggest solar energy project 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. ... more | .. |
  S.Africa looks at shift away from coal South Africa opened public hearings on a 125-billion-dollar energy plan on Tuesday, to shift from dependency on coal while avoiding major price rises and a repeat of paralysing blackouts in 2008. ... more |
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Houston (UPI) Oct 26, 2010 Colombia's coal production received a timely boost after new deals secured by Colombia Clean Power & Fuels, Inc., a Texas company with an active subsidiary in the Latin American country. Colombia Clean Power & Fuels, Inc. said it completed the acquisition of two initial coal mining concessions and reached agreement on acquiring a third adjacent concession in the Santander distric ... more  
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 26, 2010The leaders of Japan and Vietnam are expected to discuss a nuclear energy pact and the joint development of rare earth minerals when they meet in Hanoi this weekend, a Japanese official said Tuesday. Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan will visit the Vietnamese capital for meetings of the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations starting Thursday and a wider 16-nation East Asia Summit ( ... more 
Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2010US and South Korean experts began talks aimed at concluding a new agreement on sharing civil nuclear energy technology, once the current accord expires in 2014, the State Department said Tuesday. During their meeting in Washington on Monday the two sides outlined their negotiating positions and discussed when and where to hold further consultations for a new agreement, it said in a statement ... more |
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Yale Scientist Helps Pinpoint Threats To Life In World's RiversNew Haven, CT (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 The food chain - the number of organisms that feed on each other - in the world's streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amount of available food resources, Yale University and Arizona State University (ASU) researchers report online in the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Science Express. The findings suggest that large predators in river systems will be threatened by increased variability in water flow induced by climate change ... read more |
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