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Cleaner frackingWashington DC (SPX) Oct 1, 2012 The technology that opened a wealth of new natural gas resources in the U.S. is producing millions of gallons of dirty water - enough from one typical gas well to cover a football field to a depth of 9-15 feet. Cleaning up that byproduct of "fracking" is the topic of the cover story of the current issue of Chemical and Engineering News. C and EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Melody M. Bomgardner, C and EN senior business ... read more |
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  Bus service for qubits Qubit-based computing exploiting spooky quantum effects like entanglement and superposition will speed up factoring and searching calculations far above what can be done with mere zero-or-one bits. ... more | .. |
  AREVA awarded new contract to supply LEU fuel elements to Research Reactor MARIA At the occasion of the RERTR 2012 International Meeting on Reduced Enrichment for Research and Test Reactors, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy in Warsaw on October 14 to 17, AREVA CERCA, a 10 ... more | .. |
 Developing the next generation of microsensors Imagine navigating through a grocery store with your cell phone. As you turn down the bread aisle, ads and coupons for hot dog buns and English muffins pop up on your screen. The electronics industr ... 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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 ORNL study confirms magnetic properties of silicon nano-ribbons Nano-ribbons of silicon configured so the atoms resemble chicken wire could hold the key to ultrahigh density data storage and information processing systems of the future. This was a key find ... more | .. |
 New cobalt-graphene catalyst could challenge platinum for use in fuel cells There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells. Brown University chemist Shouheng Sun and his students have developed a n ... more | .. |
  China to test driverless cars for 75 miles Engineers in China say unmanned automobiles will travel from Beijing to Tianjin, a distance of 75 miles, sometime next year in a test of driverless technology. ... more | .. |
  Microsoft profit tops forecasts but revenue weak US computing giant Microsoft on Thursday blamed a slowdown in personal computer sales for a fall in earnings and revenues for its fiscal first quarter. ... more |
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  Food vs. fuel: Is there surplus land for bioenergy? An interdisciplinary team of 11 scientists from seven European countries and the USA have discussed the concept to utilize so called surplus land for the production of feedstock for bioenergy. They ... more | .. |
  University of Florida chemists pioneer new technique for nanostructure assembly A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods. Materials with enhanced properties engineere ... more | .. |
 Optical vortices on a chip An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol and the Universities of Glasgow (UK) and Sun Yat-sen and Fudan in China, have demonstrated integrated arrays of emitt ... more | .. |
 France backs Croatia's 2013 EU date France said this week it still backs Croatia's bid for a 2013 accession to the European Union despite misgivings from leaders of the German Parliament. ... more |
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 Nissan to build 'steer-by-wire' cars Japanese carmaker Nissan says it plans to sell cars with "steer-by-wire" technology within a year. ... more | .. |
 Venezuela escalates Mercosur Paraguay row Venezuela escalated its diplomatic row with Paraguay, expelling the remaining embassy staff of the landlocked country in a further blow to prospects for healing Mercosur divisions, caused by a June suspension of Paraguay and Venezuela's admission to the trade bloc. ... more | .. |
 Fears grow Iran will block Hormuz Strait Iran has denied a report it plans to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz with a giant oil spill. ... more | .. |
 Indonesia's geothermal heats up Mitsubishi Corp. will acquire a 20-percent stake in Star Energy Geothermal, a holding company that manages Indonesia's largest geothermal power station in Java Island, Indonesia, the company said. ... more |
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Why is there no life on Mars? Rover finds a clue
Third-ever confirmed interstellar object blazing through Solar System
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 Australian race crew in faster-than-a-bullet bid An Australian race crew hoping to beat their British rivals to a new supersonic land-speed record of over 1,000mph launched their bid Thursday, unveiling the first parts of their rocket-powered car. ... more | .. |
  China economy slows further, but data point to pick-up China's economic growth eased for the seventh straight quarter, data showed Thursday, but analysts say the slowdown has almost bottomed out, just as the ruling Communist Party prepares for a pivotal meeting. ... more | .. |
Japan's Hokkaido welcomes Chinese, despite row The governor of Japan's tourist haven island of Hokkaido said Thursday the doors were open for Chinese tourists and investors, despite frictions that have seen Beijing's warships skirting Tokyo's waters. ... more | .. |
 Iran Guards reject accusation of oil spill plan Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards on Thursday rejected reported allegations from Western intelligence sources that it plans to damage an oil tanker in the Gulf to create an environmental disaster. ... more |
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 Oil prices slip as China slowdown weighs Oil prices eased Thursday as investors digested economic data on slowing growth in China, the world's biggest energy consumer. ... more | .. |
  Japan robot suit offers hope for nuclear work Brain wave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight were unveiled in Japan on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Newsweek ends 80-year print run, goes all-digital Newsweek announced Thursday it would end an 80-year run as a print magazine, taking the venerable publication all-digital in another sign of the woes of an industry struggling in the Internet age. ... more | .. |
 WTO sides with US on Chinese steel import duties, again China did indeed break global trade rules when it imposed anti-dumping duties on US electrical steel imports, the World Trade Organisation ruled Thursday, confirming on appeal a previous ruling. ... more |
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China says no ambition to build South Pacific military base
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  3M Introduces 3M Solar Encapsulant Film EVA9000 3M Renewable Energy Division introduces 3M Solar Encapsulant Film EVA9000, a fast cure encapsulant that is designed to work with PV modules to provide protection against UV-aging and weathering whil ... more | .. |
 Maximize Energy Production of Distributed PV Clean Power Research has introduced SolarAnywhere SystemCheck services that provide consistent, real-time PV performance baselines for cost-effective management of distributed PV fleets. With System ... more | .. |
 Sutherland Packaging in Green Township Goes Solar GeoGenix has announced that it has completed the installation of a 612-kilowatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system for Sutherland Packaging, a family-run packaging company, at its headquarters i ... more | .. |
 New Jersey Printing Company Gets Powered by the Sun Solis Partners has completed a 757 kilowatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) installation for Carlstadt, N.J.-based Pictorial Corp., one of the nation's fastest growing graphic communications compani ... more |
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 MECASOLAR to supply solar trackers MECASOLAR - a multinational company that designs, manufactures and supplies solar trackers, fixed structures and foundation screws - has reached an agreement to deliver 74 single-axis azimuth solar ... more | .. |
  Germans to see big 'green' surcharge hike Germany's quick growth of renewable energy sources will mean a big jump in "green" surcharges for consumers, German energy companies said this week. ... more | .. |
  Tiny travelers from deep space could assist in healing Fukushima's nuclear scar Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have devised a method to use cosmic rays to gather detailed information from inside the damaged cores of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, which ... more | .. |
 China's Wen: economy starting to stabilise China's Premier Wen Jiabao said the economy began stabilising in the past three months and should meet 2012 targets, state media said Wednesday, a day before third-quarter growth data are released. ... more |
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