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Death toll in Senegal clash over biofuels land rises to twoDakar (AFP) Oct 26, 2011 A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal which triggered violent clashes between villagers claimed its second victim Thursday after a man died from his injuries. Babacar Thiandom, chief doctor at the Ndioum hospital near the Fanaye village where the clashes broke out, said two people had been killed and 22 people injured. Residents of Fanaye attacked each other with sticks and machetes in a dispute over the project which will see 20,000 hectares given to an Italian investor to cultivate s ... read more |
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  Westinghouse Signs Contract For Design Of Kozloduy Repository Westinghouse Electric Company has announced the signing of a multi-million dollar contract to de Intermediate Level Waste Repository at the Kozloduy nuclear power plant site in Bulgaria. The c ... more | .. |
 Alligator fat as a new source of biodiesel fuel Amid growing concern that using soybeans and other food crops to produce biodiesel fuel will raise the price of food, scientists have identified a new and unlikely raw material for the fuel: Alligat ... more | .. |
 Boeing, Embraer and Sao Paulo Research Lead Aviation Biofuels Program in Brazil Boeing and the Sao Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) has announced plans to collaborate on long-term aviation biofuels-related research and development, a move that represents another major s ... 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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  GE Breakthrough Aims to Cut Solar Costs in Half Despite great leaps in solar panel technology, the biggest obstacle hindering their widespread use is quite pedestrian: stubbornly high installation costs. While the cost of panels has dropped by ha ... more | .. |
 SOLON and UniSource Energy Services to bring 10MW of Solar to Arizona SOLON Corporation will build a 10-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) array near Kingman, Arizona, to provide affordable renewable power to customers of UniSource Energy Services (UES). "Thi ... more | .. |
 Floating Solar Power Energizes New Jersey American Water Treatment Plant Floating on a reservoir near New Jersey American Water's Canoe Brook Water Treatment Plant in Millburn is the East Coast's first solar array on a body of water designed to withstand a freeze/thaw en ... more | .. |
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 Bulgaria switches reactor back on grid after repairs Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant announced Thursday it had switched one of its reactors back on to the electricity grid, after a month of refuelling and repairs. ... more | .. |
  Lesotho signs $15 billion water, wind energy deal Lesotho has signed a $15 billion (11 billion euro) renewable energy deal with a South African company in the country's largest-ever private investment, officials said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  EU calls for China cash raises political hackles The decision by European leaders to solicit help from China to underpin new plans to save the euro and the world from recession raised political hackles Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Chinese business meet aims to boost Poland, EU trade A Chinese trade congress touted as the first of its kind in Europe drew nearly 2,000 delegates Thursday in Warsaw keen to do business with Poland, the only EU state to have escaped recession. ... more |
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 Taiwan-China trade pact disappoints: report A sweeping trade pact Taiwan signed with China last year has produced a smaller-than-expected boost to the island's exports, with growth slowing for key shipments, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Video game makers ready barrage of blockbusters Video game makers are breaking out the big guns and hitting players with a barrage of dynamite titles that will compete for their devotion and entertainment dollars this holiday season. ... more | .. |
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 BoJ cuts Japan growth estimates The Bank of Japan Thursday lowered its forecasts for growth in fiscal 2011 and 2012 and said the economy would remain in deflation for at least the next two years in a semi-annual report. ... more |
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 Cogenra Solar Takes On Campus Market Cogenra Solar has announced a project to build a solar cogeneration array at University of Arizona (UA), a four-year public research university located in Tucson, Arizona. In collaboration wit ... more | .. |
 ONYX President Heads to Peru for More Solar Power Generation Projects Onyx Service and Solutions has announced that Company President Malcolm Burleson left for Peru to further the Company's strategic business plan of developing solar power projects in Latin America an ... more | .. |
 First-of-a-kind tension wood study broadens biofuels research Taking a cue from Mother Nature, researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Science Center have undertaken a first-of-its-kind study of a naturally occurring phenomenon in trees to spur the ... more | .. |
 Taking the pulse of charge-separation processes The use of organic photovoltaics for the production of electricity from sunlight offers an attractive and promising basis for an innovative and environmentally friendly means of energy supply. They ... more |
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 USDA Research Grants Will Help Develop Next Gen Crops for Advanced Biofuels Creating a biomass supply chain is vital to the development of bioenergy and advanced biofuels and can bring hundreds of thousands of jobs and millions in economic development to rural areas across ... more | .. |
 Geothermal mapping report confirms vast coast-to-coast clean energy source New research from SMU's Geothermal Laboratory, funded by a grant from Google.org, documents significant geothermal resources across the United States capable of producing more than three million meg ... more |
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New MachLab rocket test site launches UK into next phase of space engineering
Ukraine's anti-graft body says new bill restores independence
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 Budget director questioned on spendingw/ll The committee responsible for finding a plan to cut the U.S. deficit by at least $1.2 trillion asked the congressional budget chief hard-hitting questions about the government's discretionary spending, spurring further debate Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Outside View: Stupidity may be the answer In the late 1930's with the U.S. economy depressed and the march to world war seemingly irreversible, the great American humorist Will Rogers offered his solution to the dire times: Stupidity got us into this mess, he observed, and perhaps stupidity is the only way out! ... more | .. |
  Russia: EU energy talks at impasse Talks with Moscow over the European Union's newly enacted energy market reform package have reached a stalemate, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko says. ... more | .. |
EU says bailout fund chief to visit China The head of the eurozone bailout fund will visit China and Japan this week, the European Union said Wednesday, as leaders of the bloc scramble to resolve its deepening debt crisis. ... more |
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 Philippines, Vietnam urge peace in South China Sea Philippine President Benigno Aquino and Vietnamese counterpart Truong Tan Sang pressed for a "zone of peace" in the hotly disputed South China Sea, at a joint news conference on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 One dead in Senegal clashes over land for biofuels A disputed biofuels project in northern Senegal has triggered violent clashes between villagers, leaving one person dead and two seriously wounded, police said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Boeing Dreamliner makes first commercial flight Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight on Wednesday, giving a handful of deep-pocketed passengers the chance to fly into history on what is touted as an aviation breakthrough. ... more |
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