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EU denies funding for fusion reactor Brussels (UPI) Dec 17, 2010 A plan to save financing for a multinational nuclear fusion reactor project has been rejected at the last minute. The European Parliament refused to approve a plan by member states to transfer $1.84 billion from the European Union's current budget to cover rising construction costs of the multibillion-dollar International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the BBC reports. "We had the green light of the Council of Ministers but the Parliament did not follow," the BBC quoted Michel Claes ... read more |
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  Malaysia aims to build two nuclear power plants Malaysia is looking to build two 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plants by 2022 to counter an "imbalance" in its energy supplies, the energy minister said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Policies To Spur Renewable Energy Can Lower Energy Costs The South could pay less for its electricity in 20 years than is currently projected if strong public policies are enacted to spur renewable energy production and use, according to a report released ... more | .. |
  Physicist Developing And Improving Designer optical Materials Advancements in fabrication technologies may lead to superlenses and other designer optical materials, according to an Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory physicist. In an article titled ... more | .. |
 Electric Current Moves Magnetic Vortices one of the requirements to keep trends in computer technology on track - to be ever faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient - is faster writing and processing of data. In the Dec. 17 issue of the ... more |
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 Computer Memory Takes A Spin University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists ... more | .. |
  A Real Sun Flower Blossoms In LA The original Los Angeles Flower Mart is going solar with a 280 KW grid-tie system to power the premiere flower market resource in the largest wholesale flower district in the United States. Th ... more | .. |
 A New Electronic Structure For Generating Spin Current A research team from the Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia (ICN), in Barcelona, has demonstrated a device that induces electron spin motion without net electric currents, a key step in developing th ... more | .. |
  On the frontlines in Italy's 'little China' Italian police officers sweep through the mosquito-infested clothes workshop, rifling through personal belongings and cracking jokes about the foreign food as six Chinese labourers look on in fear. ... more |
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 Mercosur reinforces customs union plan Leaders of Latin America's Mercosur trading bloc vowed to pursue the goal of establishing a common market and customs union encompassing the member countries despite continuing squabbles over sometimes trivial issues of integration. ... more | .. |
  US Congress passes contentious Obama tax deal US lawmakers gave final approval late 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 | .. |
 EU to make bailout fund permanent EU leaders agreed to set up a permanent safety net to bail out member states whose debt problems threaten the eurozone. ... more | .. |
  Renault-Nissan says electric car battery can be used at home Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has suggested that an electric car's rechargeable battery could be used in the home long after the vehicle has died. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Wind Turbines On Farmland May Benefit Crops 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 an ... 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 |
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  Making Wafers Faster By Making Features Smaller The manufacturing of semiconductor wafers used in all types of electronics involves etching small features onto a wafer with lasers, a process that is ultimately limited by the wavelength of the lig ... more | .. |
 Iridium Memories One of the rarest metals on Earth may be an excellent option for enabling future flash memory chips to continue to increase in speed and density, according to a group of researchers in Taiwan. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Rothschild says Indonesia's Bumi can shake up coal world The company formed by the union of PT Bumi Resources and PT Berau Coal Energy is looking to acquire coal mines around the world and become a global giant, investor Nathaniel Rothschild said Friday. ... more |
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