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Wind Turbines On Farmland May Benefit CropsAmes IA (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 Wind turbines in Midwestern farm fields may be doing more than churning out electricity. The giant turbine blades that generate renewable energy might also help corn and soybean crops stay cooler and dryer, help them fend off fungal infestations and improve their ability to extract growth-enhancing carbon dioxide [CO2] from the air and soil. Speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union, a scientific society, in San Francisco, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames ... read more |
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  BYD And HACLA Launch Electric Vehicle Testing Program The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) and BYD Motorshave announced the launch of a break-through electric vehicle fleet. The agreement was signed and BYD vehicles were put into se ... more | .. |
  Tiny Channels Carry Big Information They say it's the little things that count, and that certainly holds true for the channels in transmembrane proteins, which are small enough to allow ions or molecules of a certain size to pass thro ... more | .. |
  Solopower Offers World's Most Powerful Certified Flexible CIGS Module SoloPower continues to make steady progress with the successful expansion of its product line to include the newly certified SFX3 module. Capable of producing up to 260 Wp, the SFX3 is the most powe ... more | .. |
 Nordex USA Wins 41MW Order For Iowa Wind Farm Nordex USA has announced an order with wind farm developer RPM Access for a 41 Megawatt wind farm in Delaware County Iowa, just weeks after finalizing a 75 Megawatt order with EverPower Wind Holding ... more |
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 Xcel Energy And SunEdison Break Ground On Solar Deployment In New Mexico Community leaders and renewable developers have broken ground on a 54MW photovoltaic solar deployment to be built on five separate sites in Lea and Eddy counties, New Mexico. SunEdison and Xce ... more | .. |
 SunReports Approved By California Solar Initiative's Thermal Program SunReports has announced that it is one of the first applicants to meet the California Solar Initiative (CSI) Thermal Program's stringent requirements for monitoring systems. This announcement signi ... more | .. |
 Kalahari Greentech Tests Gas Turbine Kalahari Greentech has released a statement announcing that Kalahari Greentech has found a gas turbine designed to operate in the temperature range of its solar collector. The turbine design f ... more | .. |
  Endeavor Power Launches Endeavor Metals Endeavor Power has announced the launch of its Endeavor Metals Division. The division will focus specifically on building a profit center from asset recovery of industrial precious and scrap metals. ... more |
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 Japan eco-fair seeks to reach next generation Japanese schoolchildren in yellow scarves, blue hats and red caps buzzed through an eco-products fair - a green show-and-tell for high tech companies seeking to enthuse a new generation. ... more | .. |
  China, India PMs agree to double trade by 2015 China and India's premiers agreed Thursday to double bilateral trade to 100 billion dollars by 2015, during talks that otherwise showed no apparent progress on a series of key disputes. ... more | .. |
 US and China sign trade deals, Beijing seeks more The United States and China agreed Wednesday to pursue free trade in areas from agriculture to technology, but Beijing insisted that Washington needed to loosen its own export controls. ... more | .. |
 Transocean rejects responsibility in US oil disaster Offshore drilling group Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon platform that sank off the southern US coast, on Thursday rejected any responsibility for the subsquent giant oil spill. ... more |
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  Seaweed As Biofuel? Metabolic Engineering Makes It A Viable Option Is red seaweed a viable future biofuel? Now that a University of Illinois metabolic engineer has developed a strain of yeast that can make short work of fermenting galactose, the answer is an unequi ... more | .. |
 "Green genes" In Yeast May Boost Biofuel Production By Increasing Stress Tolerance Research published in the journal GENETICS identifies new genes that improve ethanol tolerance in yeast cells, with the goal of generating higher ethanol concentrations for biofuel production. ... more | .. |
 Doubling Import Tax On Ethanol Will Escalate Brazil-US Trade Conflict In light of ongoing negotiations in the U.S. Congress, regarding the future of subsidies in support of domestic ethanol production and the US$0.54 per gallon tariff imposed on imported ethanol, the ... more | .. |
 Ford To Build Gas-Powered, Electric, Hybrid And Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles In Michigan Ford Motor Company's Michigan Assembly Plant, which once churned out large SUVs, has completed a $550 million transformation that will make it the world's first factory to build not only fuel-effici ... more |
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 The 50 Hottest Companies In Bioenergy For 2010-11 Renewable fuels and chemicals developer Amyris took the #1 spot in the 2010-11 "50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy" rankings, published in Biofuels Digest, the online daily bioenergy news service. ... more | .. |
 China could face peak coal China could be faced with the very real possibility of peak coal - the point at which demand for coal will outstrip domestic production capacity. ... more | .. |
 The Ethics Of Biofuels In the world-wide race to develop energy sources that are seen as "green" because they are renewable and less greenhouse gas-intensive, sometimes the most basic questions remain unanswered. In ... more | .. |
 Champion Hydrogen-Producing Microbe Inside a small cabinet the size of a dorm refrigerator in one of Himadri B. Pakrasi's labs, a blue-green soup percolates in thick glass bottles under the cool light of red, blue and green LEDS. ... more |
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 Taiwan's Yulon Motor in joint venture with China's Dongfeng Yulon Motor, Taiwan's largest carmaker by revenue, has set up a joint venture with China's Dongfeng Automobile to produce the island's first locally-designed luxury sedans, Yulon said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Toxic Toy Crisis Requires Fresh Solutions Manufacturer recalls of toys, promotional drinking glasses, and other children's products constitute an ongoing "toxic toys crisis" that requires banning potentially harmful ingredients in these pro ... more | .. |
  US Congress passes contentious Obama tax deal US lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to President Barack Obama's contentious deal with Republicans to avert a New Year's tax hike and extend aid to the jobless, despite a Democratic rebellion. ... more | .. |
China think tank predicts 2010 GDP to top 37 trillion yuan China's gross domestic product will exceed 37 trillion yuan in 2010, a top government think tank predicted, as Beijing looks to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy for the full year. ... more |
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