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Traveling By Car Worse Than By Plane For ClimateLaxenburg, Australia (SPX) Oct 28, 2010 Driving a car increases global temperatures in the long run more than making the same long-distance journey by air according to a new study. However, in the short run travelling by air has a larger adverse climate impact because airplanes strongly affect short-lived warming processes at high altitudes. The study appears in ACS' Environmental Science and Technology, a semi-weekly journal. In the study, Jens Borken-Kleefeld and colleagues compare the impacts on global warming of different mean ... read more |
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  Middle Class Free Electricity Scheme Over It was inevitable. The NSW solar gold rush is over with the NSW Government suspending the current gross feed-in tariff scheme after it was sold out five years earlier than originally planned. ... more | .. |
  China to focus on promoting electric cars: official Chinese authorities have agreed to promote electric cars to address the country's intensifying energy and pollution concerns, as auto sales surge, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Southeast leaders tackle issues buffeting region Southeast Asian leaders tackled issues buffeting the region, including currency tensions, territorial disputes and Myanmar's flawed election plans, at a summit in Vietnam's capital Thursday. ... more | .. |
 South Africa woos investors for world's biggest solar plant South Africa wooed investors Thursday for what could become the world's largest solar project, built on the edge of the Kalahari Desert to provide an eighth of the country's electricity. ... more | .. |
  China hopes for nuclear, aviation deals with France China said Thursday it hoped to reach agreements with France on nuclear energy and civil aviation during President Hu Jintao's state visit to the European nation next week. ... more |
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Baghdad (UPI) Oct 28, 2010 Threats by Sunni leaders to sabotage foreign companies seeking to develop Iraq's natural gas production, vital to restoring electrical output and industrial development, underline the perils still facing Iraq's all-important energy industry as U.S. troops withdraw. The threats were primarily direct against companies that are moving into Anbar province in northern Iraq, one of the main b ... more
Washington (UPI) Oct 28, 2010 Oil politics have changed dramatically with the rise of major producers and exporters outside OPEC, increasing the risk of violence among nations that export or consume large quantities of crude oil, a new study said. "Seizing Power: The Grab for Global Oil Wealth - How Oil Volatility May Lead to Violence Among Oil Powers," by Robert Slater, argued volatility and uncertainty of global ... more
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2010BP and Halliburton knew weeks before an explosion tore through a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico that the cement mix they planned to pump into an undersea BP well was faulty, a probe found Thursday. But they went ahead regardless, and the unstable cement that Halliburton poured into BP's Macondo well to secure the casing on the sea floor was fingered by a commission set up by President Barack O ... more |
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US, Japan to diversify sources of rare earths: Japan FMHonolulu, Hawaii (AFP) Oct 27, 2010 The United States and Japan will cooperate to diversify the sources of imports of rare earths needed in high-tech products, Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Wednesday. "We have to diversify the sources of rare earth minerals," Maehara said in a press conference with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after they met in Hawaii. "And here again Japan and the United States will closely cooperate with each other in order to engage in more diversified rare earth minerals diplomacy," he ... read more |
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