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Green Cars Could Be Made From Pineapples And BananasAnaheim CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2011 Your next new car hopefully won't be a lemon. But it could be a pineapple or a banana. That's because scientists in Brazil have developed a more effective way to use fibers from these and other plants in a new generation of automotive plastics that are stronger, lighter, and more eco-friendly than plastics now in use. They described the work, which could lead to stronger, lighter, and more sustainable materials for cars and other products, here at the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the A ... read more |
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  Debut Of The First Practical Artificial Leaf Scientists claimed one of the milestones in the drive for sustainable energy - development of the first practical artificial leaf. Speaking here at the 241st National Meeting of the American Chemica ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: Euro-crash rolls on There is an eerie but grisly fascination about the way the slow train crash of the euro currency continues to unfold and the recurrent inability of the European governments to take the political risks of resolving it. ... more | .. |
 Chicken Fat Biofuel: Eco-Friendly Jet Fuel Alternative In an RV nicknamed after an urban assault vehicle, scientists from NASA's Langley Research Center traveled cross-country this month for an experiment with eco-friendly jet fuel. The Langley te ... 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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 Semiconductor Research And Masdar Institute Host Solar Technology Scientists Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology has announced Abu Dhabi's first world-class gathering of solar experts and university researchers for a fo ... more | .. |
 Nevada Report Shines Light On Big Economic Benefits Of Small Solar Power Advocates at Vote Solar and Clean Energy Project NV have released a new report on the expected economic and job creation benefits of developing solar on homes and businesses across Nevada. The analy ... more | .. |
 Colorado's Solar Permit Processes Lag Behind Best Practices The Vote Solar Initiative (Vote Solar) and the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association (COSEIA) have released a report and online interactive map rating solar permitting practices in 34 cities ... more | .. |
 TEP To Develop New Grid-Connected Solar Power Systems On Local Rooftops Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is preparing to build new grid-tied solar arrays on the roofs of large public buildings to help serve a growing demand for renewable power. Through its new TEP Brig ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 New Trash-To-Treasure Process Turns Landfill Nuisance Into Plastic With billions of pounds of meat and bone meal going to waste in landfills after a government ban on its use in cattle feed, scientists described development of a process for using that so-called mea ... more | .. |
  Closing In On The Pseudogap Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley have joined with researchers at Stanford University ... more | .. |
 TU Delft Identifies Huge Potential Of Nanocrystals In Fuel Cells The addition of extremely small crystals to solid electrolyte material has the potential to considerably raise the efficiency of fuel cells. Researchers at TU Delft were the first to document this a ... more | .. |
  Japan Airlines emerges from bankruptcy Japan Airlines (JAL) said Monday that it had completed bankruptcy proceedings, more than a year after a spectacular collapse that prompted a government bailout of the once-venerable flag carrier. ... more |
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  Merkel blames 'painful' poll drubbing on nuclear fears German Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed a "painful" poll debacle in her party's heartland on fears over Japan's nuclear crisis Monday but said she had no plans to reshuffle her weakened government. ... more | .. |
 Tokyo nuclear operator seeking French help: minister Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), operator of Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, is seeking help from France to tackle the "critical" situation, Industry Minister Eric Besson said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Fukushima contamination 'well beyond' 30k zone: France Air-borne nuclear contamination has spread "well beyond" the 30-kilometre exclusion zone around Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Croatia, Slovenia's nuclear plant safe: Croatian president A communist-era nuclear power plant that Croatia shares with Slovenia is safe, Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic insisted Monday during a visit to Lithuania. ... 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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  Japan lacking radioactive water storage: US experts Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant may have run out of room to store radioactive water, US scientists said Monday after the plant operator reported leaks that could contaminate the ocean. ... more | .. |
 Plutonium detected in soil at Japan nuclear plant Plutonium has been detected in soil at a stricken nuclear plant in Japan and highly contaminated water has leaked from a reactor building, the operator said Monday, fanning environmental fears. ... more | .. |
  Japan disaster to boost commodity prices Reconstruction in Japan following this month's earthquake and tsunami is likely to boost prices for lumber, plywood, steel and other building materials, a leading Canadian bank said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Post-oil transport needs 1.5-trillion-euro overhaul: EU Europe's transport network will need a 1.5-trillion-euro private sector overhaul to meet the needs of a post-oil world and slash carbon emissions, the European Commission said Monday. ... more |
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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 | .. |
  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 |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
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 German nuclear fears trigger Merkel party poll debacle 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. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 |
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