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New biorefinery finds treasure in Starbucks' spent coffee grounds and stale bakery goodsPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2012 With 1.3 billion tons of food trashed, dumped in landfills and otherwise wasted around the world every year, scientists have described development and successful laboratory testing of a new "biorefinery" intended to change food waste into a key ingredient for making plastics, laundry detergents and scores of other everyday products. Their report on a project launched in cooperation with the Starbucks restaurant chain - concerned with sustainability and seeking a use for spent coffee grounds and st ... read more |
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 Fueling the future with renewable gasoline and diesel A new process for converting municipal waste, algae, corn stalks and similar material to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel is showing the same promise in larger plants as it did in laboratory-scale devi ... more | .. |
  As smart electric grid evolves, Virginia Tech engineers show how to include solar technologies An economically feasible way to store solar energy in existing residential power networks is the subject of an award winning paper written by two Virginia Tech electrical engineers and presented at ... more | .. |
 Genetically Engineered Algae For Biofuel Pose Potential Risks That Should Be Studied Algae are high on the genetic engineering agenda as a potential source for biofuel, and they should be subjected to independent studies of any environmental risks that could be linked to cultivating ... 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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  UA Engineering Professor Uses Aerospace Materials to Build Endless Green Pipeline Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, has designed a new, lightweight underground pipe he says could transform the pipeline construction industry. Instead ... more | .. |
  A new route to dissipationless electronics A team of researchers at RIKEN and the University of Tokyo has demonstrated a new material that promises to eliminate loss in electrical power transmission. The surprise is that their methodology fo ... more | .. |
 Electronic Read-out of Quantum B Quantum computers promise to reach computation speeds far beyond that of today's computers. As they would use quantum effects, however, they would also be susceptible to external interferences. ... more | .. |
 Clean Energy Collective Awarded 6 Xcel Energy Solar Gardens Clean Energy Collective (CEC) has been awarded six community-owned solar gardens as part of Xcel's Solar*Rewards Community program, totaling 2.5 MW of distributed power generation. Through the new p ... more |
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Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
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 First Light Technologies Lights up St. Pete Beach First Light Technologies announces the successful installation of its new PLB Series Solar LED Bollards by the City of St. Pete Beach in Southern Florida. "First Light's bollard design fit our needs ... more | .. |
 Eltek THEIA HE-t Solar Inverter Earns UL Certification for Availability in North America Eltek, the world leader in high efficiency power systems for telecommunications, industrial applications and renewable energy projects, announced that its award-winning THEIA HE-t grid tie solar inv ... more | .. |
 Warning issued for modified algae Genetically engineering algae as a source of biofuel has potential risks to the environment that demand study, U.S. scientists warn. ... more | .. |
 Argentina unhappy over EU biofuels curbs Argentina's $2 billion biofuels export market is at risk from an EU trade dispute that has been complicated by Argentine seizure of local energy company Repsol YPF. ... more |
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 Australia sees China chance in Chevron gas exit Australian officials on Tuesday welcomed Chevron's decision to bow out of Woodside Petroleum's massive Browse liquefied natural gas project as a chance for Chinese investors to buy in. ... more | .. |
US says oil firms should respect Baghdad government The United States said Monday that oil companies should not bypass Iraq's central government after authorities in the autonomous Kurdish north signed dozens of deals with foreign energy firms. ... more | .. |
China's CNOOC H1 profit down 19% Chinese state-owned energy giant CNOOC Tuesday said its first-half net profit fell 19 percent year-on-year amid rising costs and a drop in production after the closure of a major oil field. ... more | .. |
  Yap.TV tunes Internet Age viewing for the world San Francisco startup Yap.TV on Monday went international with a hit service that helps people mine gems from junk in the growing mountain of shows, films and videos. ... more |
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  Japan's Sharp may sell China, Mexico plants: reports Japan's embattled Sharp is considering selling television assembly plants in China and Mexico and shedding 3,000 jobs, boosting the number of planned payroll cuts to 8,000, reports said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Indian solar hit by climate financing The United States is using climate finance funds to kill India's solar power industry, says an Indian public interest research and advocacy group. ... more | .. |
Walker's World: The return of euro crisis Just back from vacation, France's President Francois Hollande plunges right back into a new euro crisis, as he goes to Berlin for talks this week with Chancellor Angela Merkel. And then each of them separately has talks with the new Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who is hoping to be allowed four years rather than two to carry out the deficit cuts and privatizations required by his European partners. ... more | .. |
  IAEA: Fukushima slowed nuke growth The Fukushima Daiichi disaster slowed but didn't reverse the expansion of nuclear power in 2011, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in Vienna. ... more |
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Britain and Ireland tuning into Netflix Netflix on Monday announced that one million people in Britain and Ireland signed up for the film and TV show streaming Internet service in the seven months after its debut there. ... more | .. |
Apple is most valuable company ever at $623 bn Apple on Monday dethroned longtime rival Microsoft as the most valuable company in history based on the value of its stock, which climbed to around $623.51 billion. ... more | .. |
Anti-Japan protests erupt in China over island row Anti-Japan protests broke out in more than a dozen Chinese cities including Beijing and Hong Kong on Sunday as authorities allowed thousands of people to vent anger over an escalating territorial row. ... more | .. |
  Taiwan's China Airlines boosts Auckland flights Taiwan's leading carrier China Airlines said Monday it will boost its service from Taipei to Auckland, introducing daily flights from October in a bid to tap New Zealand's growing tourism market. ... more |
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  China's Yancoal Australia reviews expansion plans China-backed Yancoal Australia said Monday it has put expansion plans at all seven of its mines under review to keep costs down as weaker demand from key north Asian importers weighs on coal prices. ... more | .. |
Japan's island disputes show malaise: analysts Tokyo's seeming fixation with squabbles over the outposts of its former empire are symptomatic of a foreign policy drift as Japan struggles to find its place in the 21st century, analysts say. ... more | .. |
  Soft robots, in color A team of researchers led by George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, has already broken new engineering ground with the development of soft, silicone-based robots ... more | .. |
  Researchers Find Material for Cleaner-Running Diesel Vehicles Engineers at a company co-founded by a University of Texas at Dallas professor have identified a material that can reduce the pollution produced by vehicles that run on diesel fuel. The materi ... more |
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 Good vibrations A long-time staple of science fiction is the tractor beam, a technology in which light is used to move massive objects - recall the tractor beam in the movie Star Wars that captured the Millennium F ... more | .. |
 COMAC of China, Boeing Open Energy Conservation Technology Center Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (COMAC) and Boeing has opened the Boeing-COMAC Aviation Energy Conservation and Emissions Reductions Technology Center, a collaborative effort to support commercia ... more | .. |
 Speeding up the profitability of flat-roof solar installations Ecolibrium Solar modernized the flat-roof mounting industry with the launch of the Ecofoot in 2010. Recent usage of the Ecofoot mounting system includes the installation of a 127.5kW solar PV system ... more | .. |
 Future increases in US natural gas exports and domestic prices may not be as large as thought Amid policy debate over potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the United States, a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy predicts the long-term volume of ex ... more |
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