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China to face electricity shortages?Beijing (UPI) Feb 7, 2012 China could face power supply outages this year due to a shortage of coal, China's Electricity Council warned. CEC, an association representing power firms, estimates the country's power shortages to reach 40 million kilowatts in 2012, compared with a 30 million kilowatt shortage in 2011, it said on its Web site. China relies on coal for more than 70 percent of its energy needs. To address electricity supply shortages, CEC recommended differentiating electricity charges, limiting ... read more |
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  Airline industry split widens over EU carbon 'tax' row A split widened within the aviation industry Tuesday over EU charges for carbon emissions, as Europe's low-cost carriers accused Chinese and US rivals of "gunboat" diplomacy against the system. ... more | .. |
  US-China trade tensions rising ahead of Xi visit A barrage of complaints over Beijing's allegedly discriminatory trade policies awaits Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the country's leader-in-waiting, when he visits Washington next week. ... more | .. |
  Commerce returns to Iran-Iraq border river Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after a three-decade break with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. ... 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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  'App Economy' is huge US job creator: study The explosion of software applications for smartphones, tablet computers and Facebook has created nearly 500,000 jobs in the United States since 2007, according to a study published on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 BP surges back into profits, as US criminal trial looms BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday, as the British energy giant prepared for a criminal trial over the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. ... more | .. |
  Enerkem and GreenField Ethanol Announce Quebec's First Waste-to-Biofuels Production Facility At a news conference in Varennes, the Government of Quebec announced its plan to inject $27 million in Quebec's first full-scale commercial cellulosic ethanol plant through the Ministry of Natural R ... more | .. |
 Pennsylvania State Fire Academy Offers Course in Ethanol Response The State Fire Academy is taking its school on the road, beginning with a training course next month on how to respond to ethanol incidents. State Fire Commissioner Ed Mann said the Internatio ... more |
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  Chadbourne Closes More Than 20 Billion in Project Finance Deals Chadbourne and Parke lawyers closed more than $20 billion in project finance deals in 2011, including the world's largest IPP project being built in Saudi Arabia. Other highlights in 2011 included w ... more | .. |
 Alta Devices Discloses Record Solar Module Efficiency Alta Devices' most recent solar panel has been verified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at 23.5% efficiency. This is the highest solar panel efficiency yet achieved and demonstrat ... more | .. |
  Beijing office rents 'rise 75%' to top New York Office rents in Beijing are more expensive than New York after rising 75 percent last year as China's rapid economic growth sparked strong demand, an international real estate company said. ... more | .. |
 Mid-Atlantic SEIA and National SEIA Formalize Partnership to Grow Region's Solar Market The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and the Mid-Atlantic Solar Energy Industries Association (MSEIA) has announced a formalized partnership to coordinate the resources of both organizatio ... more |
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 India's need for aerospace engineers to grow With calls for the government to liberalise foreign direct investment (FDI) norms to allow foreign airlines to invest up to 49 percent in domestic air carriers, India will see a tremendous need for ... more | .. |
 Ultimate parachute jump: Diver to break sound barrier An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon on the edge of space later this year, The Telegraph reported Sunday. Felix Baumgartner will be the fi ... more | .. |
 Lawsuit Filed To Halt Riverside County Sun Tax The Independent Energy Producers Association (IEP) and the Large-scale Solar Association (LSA) have filed a lawsuit in Riverside County Superior Court asking the court to invalidate the county's Boa ... more | .. |
 Siemens to Implement US Army's Largest Solar PV System The solar PV system is the primary component of the energy savings performance contract (ESPC) to be implemented by the Building Technologies Division of Siemens Industry, Inc. The solar PV system w ... more |
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Chinese researchers craft high fidelity Mars soil simulant to support future missions
Ancient river systems reveal Mars was wetter than we thought
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 Suniva Powers 1MW Solar Farm at Chattanooga Airport Suniva has announced that it is powering a 1 megawatt (MW) solar farm at the Chattanooga Airport. Implemented by Inman Solar, the 1 MW installation is the first phase of a 3MW project by the Chattan ... more | .. |
 Yahoo! chairman, three directors stepping down Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock announced Tuesday he was stepping down from the board of the struggling Internet company along with three other directors. ... more | .. |
 Canada PM Harper in China for trade talks Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Wednesday, kicking off a four-day trip aimed at prying open more of the Chinese market for Canadian resources. ... more | .. |
 Rebels free 29 Chinese in Sudan A group of 29 Chinese workers taken by rebels in southern Sudan 11 days ago has been freed in good health and flown to Kenya, officials said on Tuesday, after Beijing protested their capture. ... more |
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 Italy to hold gas talks as cold snap toll hits 26 Italy was set to hold emergency talks on Tuesday aimed at maximising gas supplies to vulnerable households as the cold snap tightened its grip on the country and the death toll rose to 26. ... more | .. |
 China and US have 'trust deficit': senior official A top Chinese official has warned of a "trust deficit" between Beijing and Washington and expressed hopes that a key visit to the United States next week by China's leader-in-waiting will strengthen ties. ... more | .. |
 Chinese workers freed in Sudan: foreign ministry A group of Chinese workers "kidnapped" by rebels in southern Sudan 11 days ago have been freed and flown to Kenya, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. ... more |
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US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
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 Commercial traffic resumes on Shatt al-Arab Commercial traffic has resumed on the strategic Shatt al-Arab waterway after 31 years, with the official opening of a port for oil giant Shell, an Iraqi official said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  French nuclear body approves Atmea reactor safety options France's ASN nuclear safety body said on Tuesday it had approved the safety options for the Atmea1 reactor project being carried out by France's Areva and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI). ... more | .. |
 BP swings into huge profit before US criminal trial BP returned to profit with a bang last year, posting net earnings of $23.9 billion on Tuesday as the British energy giant prepares for a criminal trial linked to the US Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. ... more | .. |
 Chinese village exports cheap labour abroad Xie Guolu proudly shows off the two-storey home he is having built in the small Chinese village of Lujiazhuang, paid for by money his son earns thousands of kilometres away in Algeria. ... more |
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 Auction houses outfox Chinese antiquity fakers Nicolas Chow places a magnifying glass against a Ming Dynasty vase to inspect the potter's 600-year old workmanship. ... more | .. |
 GM says China sales fall in January due to holiday US auto giant General Motors said Tuesday its sales in China fell eight percent in January from a year earlier due to fewer shopping days during the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday. ... more | .. |
 Solarphasec introduces a revolutionary new solar power generation technology Solarphasec has developed a new break through technology that dramatically increases the overall energy output of the photovoltaic material in its new Sentinel series solar devices. Solarphase ... more | .. |
 RLS Logistics Takes NJ Headquarters Solar RLS Logistics and HelioSage Energy have announced the successful commissioning of a 257 kilowatt solar array at the RLS headquarters in Newfield. The roof-mounted array will deliver energy cost savi ... more |
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