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Coal miners cold on Australia carbon taxSydney (AFP) April 20, 2011 Australia's powerful coal industry on Wednesday urged Canberra to "go back to the drawing board" on its proposed carbon tax, warning it would hurt the economy for no environmental benefit. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has proposed putting a price on emissions of carbon, a key element of gases blamed for global warming, from July 2012, in a scheme that will effectively initially operate like a tax. Under the proposal, a fixed price would be placed on carbon emissions for the first three to five y ... read more |
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  Solar power growth sees new challenges Solar power development is facing new challenges as efforts to introduce more organic components in solar power generation technologies are hampered by poor performance results. ... more | .. |
  Record revenue for Intel, shares soar US computer chip giant Intel blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts on Tuesday and dismissed gloomy forecasts for personal computer sales. ... more | .. |
  Fishermen fight for compensation a year after BP spill The calls for more documents came day and night to the seafood dock just up the road from one of BP's main staging areas in its fight against the Gulf oil spill. ... 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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 Ribbon Cut On Detroit Edison Solar Installation At MCCC Officials have cut the ceremonial ribbon marking the completion of the Detroit Edison solar installation on the Main Campus of Monroe County Community College. The 500-kilowatt, $3-million photovolt ... more | .. |
 Solar Power Installation Online At Anne Arundel County's Combined Support Services Complex Constellation Energy has announced the completion by its retail energy business of a 750-kilowatt on-site solar installation at Anne Arundel County's Combined Support Services Complex in Millersvill ... more | .. |
 Interservice Uzunovi To Install 1MW Solyndra Project In Bulgaria Solyndra and Interservice Uzunovi plc solar division have announced the signing of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for a 1 MWp Solyndra installation on the rooftops of B ... more | .. |
 NRL Scientists Demonstrate Novel Ionic Liquid Batteries Scientists at the NRL Materials Science and Technology Division are providing solid evidence that there is a new route towards developing novel, lightweight energy storage devices. By moving away fr ... more |
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 Nonprofits Awarded For Energy Efficiency And Water Conservation Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and President Obama's environmental policy advisor, joined Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) officials yesterd ... more | .. |
 Clean Energy Pathways To Enter JV For Development Of Two Tennessee Solar Farms Clean Energy Pathways has signed a letter of intent with H and T Holdings to form a joint venture for development of two one-megawatt solar farms with an option for two additional one-megawatt syste ... more | .. |
 United Solar To Establish Manufacturing Facility In Canada United Solar has announced that it will establish a manufacturing facility in Ontario, Canada, that will be operational by August 2011. The 7,000 square meter facility, located at 6135 Morton Indust ... more | .. |
 Toward A More Efficient Use Of Solar Energy The exploitation and utilization of new energy sources are considered to be among today's major challenges. Solar energy plays a central role, and its direct conversion into chemical energy, for exa ... more |
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 Scientists Finely Control Methane Combustion to Get Different Products Scientists have discovered a method to control the gas-phase selective catalytic combustion of methane, so finely that if done at room temperature the reaction produces ethylene, while at lower temp ... more | .. |
 A Chance Discovery May Revolutionize Hydrogen Production Producing hydrogen in a sustainable way is a challenge and production cost is too high. A team led by EPFL Professor Xile Hu has discovered that a molybdenum based catalyst is produced at room tempe ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Chinese takeaway While World Bank President Robert Zoellick warns that the world is "one shock away from a full-blown crisis," China has broken ground and taken over the economic future of a country whose nearest island to the U.S. mainland is Bimini, only 50 miles away. ... more | .. |
  Expert: EU reactors can't take plane hit Most European nations lack safety standards that would protect nuclear power plants from terrorist attacks involving aircraft, the head of Germany's reactor security commission said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Japan consumer confidence falls after quake Japanese consumer confidence fell in March from the previous month to its lowest since June 2009 as a record earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear emergency cast a shadow over the economy. ... more | .. |
 Second day of violent protests over India atomic plant Mobs attacked a hospital and blocked a highway in western India on Tuesday in a second day of violent protests against a planned nuclear power plant, after a protester was shot dead a day earlier. ... more | .. |
Areva to set up treatment system at Japan plant French nuclear group Areva said Tuesday it will set up a system to treat radioactive water from a quake-hit Japanese power plant to allow power supplies and cooling systems to be repaired. ... more | .. |
  Shanghai showcases auto world's China hopes Foreign and Chinese carmakers unveiled plans on Tuesday to ratchet up investment and introduce new models in China as Shanghai's auto show opened with all eyes on the world's largest car market. ... more |
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Italy proposes halt to nuclear programme Italy on Tuesday proposed a halt to its plans for developing nuclear power, with the government saying it wanted to develop "a new national energy strategy" in the wake of the crisis in Japan. ... more | .. |
  Don't stigmatise nuclear evacuees, says Japan govt The Japanese government on Tuesday urged "heartless" people, local authorities and businesses not to discriminate against evacuees from the area around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. ... more | .. |
 Brazil, a new haven for high tech investors A longtime exporter of raw materials and a hub for foreign investors, Brazil is now seeking capital for cutting-edge research in oil and information technology. ... more | .. |
China's FAW to invest $1.5 bn in green vehicles China's FAW Group plans to invest $1.5 billion developing clean energy vehicles in the next five years, a report said Tuesday, as automakers seek to cash in on the burgeoning "green" car market. ... more |
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Japan ex-official to quit TEPCO post A Japanese former bureaucrat will resign as an adviser to nuclear plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co., the government said Tuesday, amid criticism of cozy ties between utilities and regulators. ... more | .. |
German nuclear village bucks trend Ever since the Japan nuclear crisis began last month, yellow and red badges saying "Atomkraft? Nein Danke" ("Nuclear Power? No Thanks") with a smiling sun are everywhere in Germany. ... more | .. |
 Ride-Sharing For Road Freight Around 20 percent of trucks on German roads are traveling empty, at a huge cost to the transportation companies concerned. Also from an ecological and traffic-management standpoint, it would be bett ... more | .. |
 NIST Zeroes In On Energy Consumption Of Ice Makers In tests of four different types of new refrigerators, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers found that ice makers increased rated energy consumption by 12 to 20 percent. ... more |
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 Hydrocarbons In The Deep Earth A new computational study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals how hydrocarbons may be formed from methane in deep Earth at extreme pressures and temperatures. ... more | .. |
  Sugarcane Cools Climate Brazilians are world leaders in using biofuels for gasoline. About a quarter of their automobile fuel consumption comes from sugarcane, which significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions that othe ... more | .. |
  New Spin On Graphene A team led by Professor Andre Geim, a recipient of the 2010 Nobel Prize for graphene, can now show that electric current - a flow of electrons - can magnetise graphene. The results, reported i ... more | .. |
 CUA Applaud Students' Solar Picnic Table Design Six students from The Catholic University of America (CUA) are being recognized by University President John Garvey for their innovative, one-of-a-kind, solar-powered picnic table that was recently ... more |
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