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German scientist eyes gold mine in rare earths recyclingHainichen (AFP) Dec 1, 2010 Surrounded by smoking vats in his tumble-down factory in former Communist East Germany, Wolfram Palitzsch sees a golden future in recycling "rare earths," the metals crucial to must-have gadgets such as mobile phones and TVs. The 44-year-old scientist is exploring ways of extracting the exotic metals that have spiked 300 percent in price over the past year alone, driven in part by trade tensions with China which enjoys a near monopoly on their export. "It's incredible that almost no one has thou ... read more |
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 Nigerian troops attack camps, rebels say scores killed Nigeria's military said it had raided three camps run by suspected rebels in the southern Delta State on Wednesday in an attack that a militant group said had left more than 100 people dead. ... more | .. |
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  China leads Asia-wide acceleration in manufacturing: surveys China's factories led a strong pick-up in manufacturing activity across Asia in November, surveys showed Wednesday, but soaring raw material costs fuelled expectations for more interest rate hikes. ... more | .. |
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 Obama reverses oil drill expansion after BP spill President Barack Obama on Wednesday reversed a March decision to expand offshore oil exploration to the Atlantic Ocean and eastern Gulf of Mexico, but said deepwater drilling could continue in the part of the Gulf hit by the BP disaster. ... more |
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  Can Engineered Bugs Help Generate Biofuels The versatile organism Lactococcus lactis, the workhorse bacterium that helps turn milk into cheese, may also be valuable in the understanding of how microbes turn the organic compound cellulose int ... more | .. |
 North Carolina Sustainable Energy Company Commits To Being Carbon Neutral Southern Energy Management (SEM) has announced that it is making the commitment to go carbon neutral. As a company specializing in energy efficiency and solar power for residential, commercial and g ... more | .. |
 China Sunergy and Pythagoras Solar Advance Development Of Solar Windows China Sunergy and Pythagoras Solar have announced the signing of an agreement to co-market and advance the development and scale manufacturing of BIPV products from 2010-2015 in China. The agr ... more | .. |
  Paris looking at Areva capital increase: Lagarde The French government is looking positively at taking part in a capital increase for nuclear giant Areva while negotiations for Kuwait to acquire a stake in the company are going well, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said Wednesday. ... more |
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 Edwards Expands iXA Vacuum Pump Family Edwards has expanded its iXA family of magnetically-levitated turbomolecular pumps with the introduction of the STP-iXA2206 and STP-iXA3306 pumps. Developed for solar, glass coating, semicondu ... more | .. |
 Abu Dhabi builds strategic Gulf pipeline The United Arab Emirates has completed a pipeline from its main oil fields in Abu Dhabi to Fujairah on the Gulf of Oman, thus bypassing the chokepoint Strait of Hormuz, a vital oil export route highly vulnerable to closure by Iran. ... more | .. |
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 Study Assesses Nuclear Power Assumptions A broad review of current research on nuclear power economics has been published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. The report concludes that nuclear power will continue to be a via ... more | .. |
  Manufacturing Made To Measure Atomic-Scale Electrodes Thanks to collaborative work between scientists in Donostia-San Sebastian and the University of Kiel (Germany) it has been shown that it is possible to determine and control the number of atoms in c ... more | .. |
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 Columbia Engineering Team Discovers Graphene Weakness In 2008, experiments at The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University established pure graphene, a single layer of graphite only one atom thick, as the strongest ... more |
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  How To Soften A Diamond After hundreds of years, researchers at the Fraunhofer IWM in Freiburg have managed to decode the atomic mechanism behind diamond grinding. It is the hardest material in the world, and yet it can no ... more | .. |
 Biofuels Have Consequences On Water Quality And Quantity In Mississippi Growing corn for biofuels production is having unintended effects on water quality and quantity in northwestern Mississippi. More water is required to produce corn than to produce cotton in th ... more |
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