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70% in Japan support PM's nuclear-free future: pollTokyo (AFP) July 24, 2011 Seventy percent of the Japanese public supports centre-left Prime Minister Naoto Kan's policy to make the country nuclear free in future but most people still want him to quit, a poll said Sunday. The weekend survey conducted by Kyodo News agency showed 70.3 percent support Kan's policy of ending nuclear power while 66.9 percent think the unpopular prime minister should leave office by the end of August. Kan said earlier this month that the country must gradually reduce its reliance on atomic po ... read more |
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  Historic Polish shipyard set to 'go green' The Gdansk Shipyard, where the Solidarity movement that ended the communist era in Poland was born, is now trying to lead another Polish revolution ... in offshore wind power. ... more | .. |
  US warns on South China Sea, cautious on N.Korea US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Saturday that tensions in the South China Sea threatened peace, while expressing caution over apparent progress in North Korean nuclear talks. ... more | .. |
  Israel approves new Eilat international airport Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved plans for a new international airport near the southern resort town of Eilat, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. ... 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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  Cracks appear in China's economic model: analysts As the United States and Europe struggle with debt crises, China's economy appears in robust health, but analysts say its growth model is too dependent on investment and cannot be sustained. ... more | .. |
 South Korea, India sign nuclear cooperation pact South Korea and India signed an agreement Monday to cooperate in nuclear power, providing a legal basis for the South's future participation in atomic plant projects in India. ... more | .. |
 Clinton says 'confident' of deal on US debt crisis US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday she was confident lawmakers would reach a deal to avert a debt default, addressing business leaders in Hong Kong towards the end of an Asian tour. ... more | .. |
 Japan to test-drill for seabed 'burning ice': Nikkei Japan will seek to extract natural gas from seabed deposits of methane hydrate, also known as "burning ice", in the world's first such offshore experiment, a news report said Monday. ... more |
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Beijing officials admit 'gaps' in readiness after rain kill dozens
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  Study: Biofuel regulations should change The commercial success of biofuels that hold a promise of enhancing U.S. energy security and reducing greenhouse gas will need regulatory changes, a study says. ... more | .. |
 Pemex ramps up KMZ field production Mexico's state-owned company Petroleos Mexicanos, better known as Pemex, is seeking to increase production at its Ku Maloob Zaap field by 17 percent in four years. ... more | .. |
  Peru's Humala aims to calm investors With a week to go before his inauguration Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala rushed through Cabinet appointments likely to reassure investors he wouldn't emulate Venezuelan peer Hugo Chavez when reforming the Latin American country's economy. ... more | .. |
China and ASEAN members sign agreement China has signed an agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations to move toward peaceful resolutions of maritime disputes in the South China Sea. ... more |
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Outside View: America's permanent deficit The United States' finances are headed for a train wreck. ... more | .. |
Report: OPEC to earn $1 trillion in 2011 Net oil export earnings of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will top $1 trillion this year, the Energy Information Administration said citing consolidated figures for the 12 member countries. ... more | .. |
Doubts remain over Greek debt rescue Markets rose Friday after European leaders agreed to a $155 billion package to ease the Greek debt crisis and prevent the contagion from spreading to other eurozone countries. ... more | .. |
 New French nuke plant beset by more delays French utility EDF this week announced more delays in its plans to construct one of the biggest nuclear power facilities in the world at Flamanville. ... more |
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US, India launch powerful Earth-monitoring satellite
NASA readying for crewed Artemis II moon flight
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 Back in black, Philippine Airlines sees hard times Philippine Airlines said Friday it swung back into profit in the past fiscal year as it overcame the troubles of the global financial crisis. ... more | .. |
 UN watchdog reviews S. Korea's nuclear safety regulations The UN atomic watchdog said Friday an international team of senior nuclear safety experts has given the thumbs up to South Korea's nuclear safety regulatory programme following a mission there. ... more | .. |
 China hungry for South China Sea oil: Philippines China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea appear to be motivated by a hunger to exploit the area's rich oil and gas resources, the Philippines' foreign secretary said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Japan's Hamaoka atomic plant to build huge seawall Chubu Electric said Friday it will build an 18-metre (60 foot) anti-tsunami seawall to protect its ageing Hamaoka nuclear plant located near a faultline in a region seen as vulnerable to earthquakes. ... more |
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 China makes nuclear power breakthrough China said Friday it had hooked its first so-called "fourth generation" nuclear reactor to the grid, a breakthrough that could eventually reduce its reliance on uranium imports ... more | .. |
  New Labels For US And Canadian Solar Installers TE Connectivity (TE), formerly Tyco Electronics, extends its line of warning and rating labels with new RoHS-compliant solar identification labels that offer an affordable, simple identification sol ... more | .. |
 Discovery may overcome obstacle for quantum computing Researchers have made a major advance in predicting and quashing environmental decoherence, a phenomenon that has proven to be one of the most formidable obstacles standing in the way of quantum com ... more | .. |
 US shale gas weakening Russian, Iranian petro-power Rising U.S. natural gas production from shale formations has already played a critical role in weakening Russia's ability to wield an "energy weapon" over its European customers, and this trend will ... more |
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Navy F-35 jet crashes in California
BAE Systems profit jumps as govts hike defence spend
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 Providing Power to More Than 2,000 Homes Hickam Communities and SolarCity have announced that construction is underway on what is expected to be one of the largest solar installations in Hawai'i and one of the largest solar powered communi ... more | .. |
 New graphene discovery boosts oil exploration efforts, could enable self-powered microsensors Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to harvest energy from flowing water. This discovery aims to hasten the creation of self-powered microsensors for more acc ... more | .. |
 Rooftop FIT Project Installed in Ontario Centrosolar Canada's customer and value-added integrator EnviroEn-Inc. has announced the launch of a 135kW rooftop FIT solar project now being installed at Dubwear headquarters in Mississauga, Ontar ... more | .. |
 ReneSola Rolls Out Shipments of Its New Multicrystalline Virtus Wafer and Module Lines ReneSola has announced that it began shipments of its Virtus wafers and modules in June, shipping an aggregate total of approximately 54.8 megawatts ("MW") of Virtus wafers and 20 MW of Virtus modul ... more |
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 New Mathematical Framework That Could Help Convert "Junk" Energy Into Useful Power A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed a mathematical framework that could one day form the basis of technologies that turn road vibrations, airport runway noise and other "junk" en ... more | .. |
China acquires Canadian oil sands producer China National Offshore Oil Corp. is purchasing Canadian oil sands producer OPTI for $2.1 billion. ... more | .. |
China tries to ease tensions with Southeast Asia China on Thursday sought to reassure Southeast Asian countries that it was a friendly neighbour, as all sides worked to ease tensions that spiked over a maritime territorial dispute. ... more | .. |
Russian nuclear exporter sues Bulgaria's power grid Russia's state-owned nuclear power equipment exporter said Thursday it had taken Bulgaria's national grid operator NEK to the International Court of Arbitration in Paris over project payment delays. ... more |
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