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German nuclear fears trigger Merkel party poll debacleBerlin (AFP) March 27, 2011 Fears over the Japan nuclear crisis triggered a crushing defeat for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in their German heartland Sunday, as the ecologist Greens roared to a historic triumph. Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) have ruled wealthy Baden-Wuerttemberg, home to industrial giants Daimler and Bosch, for 58 years, but her on-again, off-again support for nuclear power spooked voters ahead of the crucial poll. The anti-nuclear Greens won a record 24 percent of the vote - more than 1 ... read more |
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  Researchers Close In On Technology For Making Renewable Petroleum University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy ... more | .. |
  World looks beyond Libyan oil as conflict rages One month into its unrest, the shutdown of Libya's oil fields is creating strains in the world's oil networks as consumers scour the world to replace its highly-prized "sweet" crude. ... more | .. |
  Radiation scare at Japan nuclear plant Dangerous levels of radiation detected in water thought to be leaking from a stricken Japanese reactor dealt a new setback Sunday to efforts to avert a nuclear disaster. ... 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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  Nordex USA Enters First 300MW Joint Venture Nordex USA has entered into a joint venture with Beebe Community Wind Farm, a Michigan project developer, for the co-development and construction of a wind farm in Gratiot County, Michigan. Th ... more | .. |
 Developing The Next Generation VENTOS CFD Model Natural Power, RES and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal have signed a significant research and development joint venture focused on developing the next generati ... more | .. |
  Tiny 'On-Chip Detectors' Count Individual Photons A team of researchers has integrated tiny detectors capable of counting individual photons on computer chips. These detectors, called "single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD)," act like mini Geiger co ... more | .. |
  Lights off as 'Earth Hour' circles the globe Lights went off around the world Saturday as landmark buildings and ordinary homes flipped their switches while the annual "Earth Hour" circled the planet in what was dubbed the world's largest voluntary action for the environment. ... more |
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  New Method For Preparation Of High-Energy Carbon-Carbon Double Bonds A new catalytic chemical method for the synthesis of a large and important class of carbon-carbon double bonds has been developed by scientists from Boston College and MIT, the team reports in the j ... more | .. |
 Berkeley Researchers Enhance And Control Magnetization In Unique Bismuth Ferrite Films "The nation that controls magnetism will control the universe," famed fictional detective Dick Tracy predicted back in 1935. Probably an overstatement, but there's little doubt the nation that leads ... more | .. |
  Bolivia mulls suing Chile over sea outlet Bolivia is actively considering an International Court of Justice initiative in a bid to recover access to the Pacific Sea it lost in a war 132 years ago. ... more | .. |
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 More than 200,000 Germans march against nuclear power An estimated 200,000 people took to the streets around Germany Saturday to protest against nuclear power, upping the pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel on the eve of a critical state election. ... more | .. |
 EU fixes post-Japan nuclear safety overhaul European leaders resolved Friday to revisit safety at nuclear reactors as emergency workers in Japan suffered radiation burns and rising global fears of food contamination hit home. ... more | .. |
  Switch to fresh water to cool Japan nuclear plant: IAEA Japanese emergency teams are using fresh water instead of sea water to try to cool reactors at Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant where meltdown is feared, the UN atomic watchdog said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Japan's TEPCO under pressure over injured workers Japan ordered the operator of a stricken nuclear plant to step up safety Friday after three workers in ill-fitting shoes suffered burns when they sloshed through highly radioactive water. ... more |
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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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Home lures Taiwan businesses as China costs soar Taiwan enterprises have struggled for years to enter China, but now, just when access to the mainland market is becoming easier than ever, many are paradoxically heading back to their home island. ... more |
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Bargain-minded Chinese embrace group-buying craze Like millions of Chinese, Liu Wen has fallen in love with group buying, which has electrified e-commerce in a country where getting the best possible discount is virtually a national pastime. ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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