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Earth Hour aims for hope in darkened worldSydney (AFP) March 24, 2011 Lights will go out around the world Saturday with hundreds of millions of people set to take part in the Earth Hour climate change campaign, which this year will also mark Japan's earthquake and tsunami. From across the Pacific, to Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas, iconic landmarks such as the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, New York's Empire State building and the Eiffel Tower in Paris will go dark. "Earth Hour is like a New Year's Eve," Earth Hour co-founder and executive director Andy ... read more |
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 Power outages could hamper Japanese recovery: IMF Restoring power and government reconstruction spending are crucial to Japan's economy resuming growth, the IMF said Thursday, after Tokyo put the rebuilding cost of the March 11 earthquake at $309 billion. ... more | .. |
  CO2 Pressure Dissipates In Underground Reservoirs The debate surrounding carbon capture and storage intensifies as scientists from the Earth Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) examine the capacity for stor ... more | .. |
  Cheap Catalyst Made Easy Catalysts made of carbon nanotubes dipped in a polymer solution equal the energy output and otherwise outperform platinum catalysts in fuel cells, a team of Case Western Reserve University engineers ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 Researchers Devise Model For Stronger Self-Healing Materials By Adding More Give Conventional rules of survival tend to favor the strongest, but University of Pittsburgh-based researchers recently found that in the emerging world of self-healing materials, it is the somewhat fra ... more | .. |
  Neutron Analysis Yields Insight Into Bacteria For Solar Energy Structural studies of some of nature's most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices. Researchers from Washington ... more | .. |
 US DoE Awards 3M Funding To Reduce Cost Of PV Energy Systems The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded 3M $4.4 million as part of DOE's SunShot Initiative. SunShot aims to reduce the total costs of photovoltaic solar energy systems by about 75 percent, ... more | .. |
 Solar Window Pioneer Announces Pilot Installment Of Solar Windows Pythagoras Solar has announced that it has been chosen by Willis Tower, formerly Sears Tower, to collaborate on a pilot project to help deliver on the building's renewable energy and energy efficien ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
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 DTE Energy Seeks Solar Panel Equipment DTE Energy has initiated a Request for Proposal (RFP) to identify qualified solar photovoltaic (PV) panel suppliers to provide solar panels and logistics for the company's solar energy installations ... more | .. |
 OPEL Solar Enhances Solar Project For Aquarion Water Company OPEL Solar International has announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to install a tracker-based solar system at the Aquarion Water Company's ("Aquarion") D.W. Loiselle Water Treatment ... more | .. |
 Optimal Yields With Photovoltaic Systems Photovoltaics is without doubt the most direct way of taking advantage of solar energy. When using photovoltaics, however, there are important factors to be considered including the efficiency of th ... more | .. |
 Power outages could hamper Japanese recovery: IMF Restoring power and government reconstruction spending are crucial to Japan's economy resuming growth, the IMF said Thursday, after Tokyo put the damage of the March 11 earthquake at $309 billion. ... more |
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  Saudis focus on nuclear, solar energy Saudi Arabia is increasingly focusing on nuclear and solar energy because within two decades it will be using most of its oil production for domestic purposes, leaving little for export, if consumption keeps rising the way it is now. ... more | .. |
  Portuguese crisis plagues key EU summit EU leaders met for a crucial summit in Brussels Thursday, as tensions over Libya were overshadowed by a political crisis in Portugal that could mean fresh trouble for the euro. ... more | .. |
  Canberra agrees to mining tax concessions In what is seen as a victory for mining giants, the Australian government has agreed to concessions on its proposed resource tax, including crediting miners for "current and future royalties" charged by state governments. ... more | .. |
 Fukushima: France sets check of reactors by year end Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Thursday asked the country's top nuclear safety body to inspect all of France's reactors by year's end in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident. ... more |
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Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
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  Wyoming coal leases to be auctioned Huge coal reserves in Wyoming will be auctioned off in coming months, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said, despite a push for cleaner, renewable energy. ... more | .. |
China mine explosion kills 11, two missing A coal mine explosion killed at least 11 people and left two missing in northeastern China on Thursday, a local official said, the latest disaster to strike the accident-prone industry. ... more | .. |
  Oil prices firm on Middle East unrest World oil prices crept higher on Thursday as as traders eyed further unrest in the Middle East and North Africa and kept an eye on Portugal's debt crisis. ... more | .. |
  Bombardier, COMAC team up to market, sell jetliners Canadian manufacturer Bombardier and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China agreed Thursday to work together in a bid to break Airbus and Boeing's duopoly for medium-range jetliners. ... more |
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 China warns against S.China Sea oil exploration China warned Thursday against any oil exploration without its consent in waters it claims in the South China Sea after the Philippines announced plans for possible drilling. ... more | .. |
 China airlines to challenge EU carbon tax: report Chinese airlines plan legal action against a European Union plan to impose a carbon tax from 2012, claiming it could cost them millions of dollars a year, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Russia checking high-radiation ship in Far East: official Russia is checking a Panama-flagged vessel that arrived in its Far East region from quake-hit Japan with radiation levels three times the norm, the head of its consumer protection agency said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Oldest US nuclear reactor 'disaster waiting to happen' A sleepy New Jersey town has come onto people's radar screens because it has the oldest running nuclear power plant in the United States - and some say the most dangerous. ... more |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 Radioactive German election looms for Merkel Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has ruled Baden-Wuerttemberg since 1953, but the political fallout in Germany from Japan's nuclear crisis could spell the end in a key state election Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Saving Electricity In A Hurry-Tokyo Has Done It Before And Can Do It Again Not long ago, Japan faced a major power crisis. In September 2002, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) was forced to shut down 17 nuclear power plants for emergency safety inspections. Th ... more | .. |
 'Seeding' The Next Gen Of Smart Materials Scientists at CSIRO have developed a simple but effective technique for growing and adding value to an exciting new group of smart materials which could be used in areas such as optical sensing and ... more | .. |
 Japan exports up in February before quake In a snapshot of Japan's economy before the devastation and disruption brought by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, data Thursday showed its exports rose for the 15th straight month in February. ... more |
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 United Solar Awarded Patent For Proprietary Nano-Crystalline Tech United Solar has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent 7,902,049, "Method for depositing high-quality microcrystalline semiconductor materials" to Subhendu ... more | .. |
 Solar Greenhouses: China's Winning Solution To Global Energy Crisis Solar greenhouses have played a vital role in China's agricultural scene for years. New innovations in greenhouse design are allowing growers to produce more varieties of vegetables, even during lon ... more | .. |
 Nevada Officials And Sempra Generation Dedicate Largest US PV Plant Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval, Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler, Jeff Martin, president and chief executive officer of Sempra Generation, and other dignitaries were on hand in southern Nevada to off ... more | .. |
 New Solar Installation On Roof Of World Suntech Power Holdings has announced it will develop a 10MW solar installation on the roof of the world that will generate decades of clean electricity for thousands of residents of the Tibetan Plat ... more |
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