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  Tokyo (AFP) March 17, 2017 A Japanese court on Friday ruled for the first time that the government bears responsibility for the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and ordered it and the plant operator to pay damages, officials and news reports said. A massive tsunami triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake smashed into the Fukushima Daiichi power plant on Japan's northeastern coast on March 11, 2011. The water overwhelmed reactor cooling systems and sent three into meltdown, spewing radiation over a wide area in Japan's wors ... read more |
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Intel deal may fuel Israel's rise as builder of car brainsJerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017 Intel's $15-billion purchase of Israeli firm Mobileye could help fuel the country's rise in the driverless car industry - not as a builder of vehicles, but as the brains behind them. ... more  
Czech energy group bucks green trend with bet on coalPrague (AFP) March 19, 2017 Bucking a trend set by its European peers to divest from coal, the Czech energy group EPH is buying coal-fired power plants across the continent to the dismay of environmentalists lobbying for a phase-out of fossil fuels. ... more  
CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEAParis (AFP) March 17, 2017 Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector held stable for the third straight year in 2016 despite the global economy continuing to expand, the International Energy Agency said Friday. ... more  
Beijing shuts last coal power plant in switch to natural gasBeijing (AFP) March 19, 2017 The last large coal-fired power plant in Beijing has suspended operations, with the city's electricity now generated by natural gas, the state news agency reported as smog enveloped the Chinese capital this weekend. ... more |
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Bonding chips using inkjet printersWashington DC (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Today in electronics there are two main approaches to building circuits: the rigid one (silicon circuits) and the new, more appealing, flexible one based on paper and polymeric substrates that can b ... more  
Using lasers to create ultra-short pulsesNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method could soon be used to develop electron mic ... more  
New flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screensVancouver, Canada (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your pocket, or an artificial skin that can sense your body's movements and vital signs. A new, inexpensive sensor develop ... more  
Researchers develop new method to program nanoparticle organization in polymer thin filmsAkron OH (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Controlling the organization of nanoparticles into patterns in ultrathin polymer films can be accomplished with entropy instead of chemistry, according to a discovery by Dr. Alamgir Karim, UA's Good ... more 
Bushwhacking into Unexplored Transistor TerritoriesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Since the advent of microelectronics in the mid-20th century, humanity has been on a nonstop sprint to eke more speed, power efficiency, and computational power from the sextillions (1021) of ever m ... more 
Groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranesMinneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of material with molecular-sized pores. Resear ... more |
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 North Carolina offshore wind hailed as job creator  
Labour drought in Europe's east as workers go westBudapest (AFP) March 19, 2017 A decade ago, business was booming for Hungarian construction firm owner Geza Borgulya. ... more 
Alberta pegs economic hope to Canadian coastal pipelineWashington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 In outlining a budget for oil-rich Alberta, the finance minister said building pipelines to the Canadian coast is the "best way" to sell its energy resources. ... more 
Enthusiasm holds to give oil prices another lifeWashington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 Crude oil prices posted modest gains early Friday as traders saw some optimism in emerging supply data, though exploration figures could weigh on the rally. ... more 
Saudi Arabia takes wait-and-see approach to U.S. oilWashington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017 Saudi Arabia's oil minister told Bloomberg News that, as the de facto head of OPEC, a wait-and-see approach was good policy on recovering U.S. oil. ... more |
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Through the use of more natural gas and renewables, the United States and China, the lead world economies, helped keep global emissions flat, the IEA said.
The International Energy Agency reported Friday that global energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas, were flat in 2016 for the third year in a row, even as the global economy grew.
"These three year ... more Sussex, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies  Paris (AFP) March 17, 2017CO2 stable for 3rd year despite global growth: IEA  Wellington, New Zealand (UPI) Feb 21, 2017New Zealand lauded for renewables, but challenges remain |
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 Sydney (AFP) March 15, 2017  A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight.
The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on February 19 when there was a loud explosion.
"As ... moreNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Exhaust fumes as a resource  Sydney (AFP) March 12, 2017Australia PM, Musk discuss offer to fix power woes  Ames IA (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Discovery in new material raises questions about theoretical models of superconductivity |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017
More than 100,000 acres off the coast of North Carolina go on the auction block Thursday for potential wind energy development, the U.S. government said.
The U.S. Department of Interior pounded the gavel to open the seventh offshore wind auction, putting 122,405 acres off the North Carolina coast on the block for commercial wind energy leasing.
In August 2014, the Bureau of Ocean ... moreWashington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017North Carolina offshore wind hailed as job creator  London (UPI) Mar 13, 2017Flagship English Channel wind farm nears completion Paris (UPI) Mar 06, 2017French, Spanish companies set for more wind power off coast of France |
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 Barrington RI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
Nuera Solar has announced a partnership with the Solar Village Project, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that delivers light and power to communities in Africa, India, and Polynesia.
The partnership is part of the Nuera Gives Initiative, and with the partnership Nuera Solar will provide a solar power system to the Solar Village Project for each solar system that the company installs. ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017EU close to 2020 renewable energy target  Brussels (UPI) Mar 13, 2017EU funding renewable energy efforts in Algeria  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Perovskite edges can be tuned for optoelectronic performance |
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2017 
Toshiba shares plunged Wednesday as fears grow about the future of one of Japan's best-known firms, hit by massive losses and accounting fraud allegations at its US nuclear unit.
The Tokyo-listed stock dropped as much as 13.62 percent at one point, with concerns that the embattled company's shares could be delisted from the bourse.
Toshiba ended the day at 189.5 yen ($1.65), down 12.22 p ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017The EIC and Nuclear AMRC sign MoU  Washington (UPI) Mar 14, 2017German energy company RWE evolving for success  Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Potential approach to how radioactive elements could be 'fished out' of nuclear waste |
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 Cambridge, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable and relatively cheap to produce. It's using natural light to generate hydrogen from biomass. One of the challenges facing modern society is what it does with its waste products. As natural resources decline in abundance, using waste for energy is becoming more ... more Hampton VA (SPX) Mar 16, 2017NASA Study Confirms Biofuels Reduce Jet Engine Pollution  Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Petrol and jet fuel alternatives are produced by yeast cell factories  University Park PA (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Energy crop production on conservation lands may not boost greenhouse gases |
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 Beijing (AFP) March 19, 2017 
The last large coal-fired power plant in Beijing has suspended operations, with the city's electricity now generated by natural gas, the state news agency reported as smog enveloped the Chinese capital this weekend.
The shuttering of the Huangneng Beijing Thermal Power Plant comes on the heels of China's annual legislative sessions, where Premier Li Keqiang promised to "make our skies blue a ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Saudi Arabia takes wait-and-see approach to U.S. oil  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Norway's Statoil aims to boost local energy sector  Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017Alberta pegs economic hope to Canadian coastal pipeline |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Global warming is driven by the Earth's energy imbalance (EEI): our planet traps more and more heat due to continuous increasing greenhouse gases. From the energy perspective, the global warming is actually ocean warming, since ocean stores more than 90% of the trapped heat. Therefore, ocean heat content (OHC) change is a fundamental indicator of global warming, thus direct measurement of OHC wi ... more Baden-Baden, Germany (AFP) March 18, 2017US climate scepticism clouds G20 meet  Nairobi (AFP) March 15, 201713 killed in Kenya in drought-related violence  Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017Pentagon chief says climate change threatens security |
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 Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017  World Bank investments in commercial financial institutions is indirectly allowing land-grabs, evictions and pollution in Southeast Asia, a watchdog group charged in a report Friday.
By investing in banks and other so-called financial intermediaries, World Bank funds can increase poverty, social strife and promote projects which hasten climate change, according to a report by Inclusive Devel ... morePrague (AFP) March 19, 2017Czech energy group bucks green trend with bet on coal Washington (AFP) March 17, 2017World Bank indirectly backs harmful SE Asian projects: report  Beijing (AFP) March 14, 201717 killed in China coal mine accident: state media |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 
Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit.
The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes  Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2017Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 17, 2017  Lockheed Martin has received a $40 million contract modification to sustain the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor fleet.
Under the agreement, the company will strip and recoat F-22 coatings reverting earlier than initially expected.
Work on the contract will be performed at various locations in California, Georgia, Utah and Texas. The U.S. Department of Defense expects the work to be ... more Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017U.S. Army looks to Air Force for future air defenses  Washington (UPI) Mar 16, 2017Boeing gets $3.2B for Apache sales to Saudi Arabia  Washington (UPI) Mar 15, 2017Romania plans to buy 20 additional F-16s |
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 Frankfurt Am Main (AFP) March 15, 2017 
State prosecutors in southern Germany said Wednesday they had searched offices belonging to carmaker Audi over parent company Volkswagen's diesel emissions cheating scandal.
Investigators from Bavaria, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Lower Saxony states searched "sites belonging to Audi AG and seven other locations" on suspicion of "fraud and illegal advertising", Munich prosecutors said in a stateme ... more Jerusalem (AFP) March 17, 2017Intel deal may fuel Israel's rise as builder of car brains  Paris (AFP) March 15, 2017Renault chiefs implicated in decades-long emissions fraud: probe  New York (AFP) March 16, 2017More gas guzzlers due to Trump? Not necessarily |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
The oceans are great at absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, but when their deep waters are brought to the surface, the oceans themselves can be a source of this prevalent greenhouse gas.
Wind patterns together with the Earth's rotation drive deep ocean water - and the CO2 it sequesters - upward, replacing surface water moving offshore. A process known as upwelling, it occurs on th ... more Prague (UPI) Mar 06, 2017Czech scientists build non-metal magnet out of carbon  Boston MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017Graphene sheets capture cells efficiently  Birmingham UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2017Iron dissolved by air pollution may increase ocean potential to trap carbon |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 
Researchers at ETH Zurich and IBM Research Zurich have built a tiny redox flow battery. This means that future computer chip stacks - in which individual chips are stacked like pancakes to save space and energy - could be supplied with electrical power and cooled at the same time by such integrated flow batteries. In a flow battery, an electrochemical reaction is used to produce electricity out ... more Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Ultrashort light pulses for fast 'lightwave' computers  Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 15, 2017Two radio signals, one chip, open a new world for wireless communication  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017Bushwhacking into Unexplored Transistor Territories |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) March 12, 2017 
Electric light railway tracks soar over Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, a rare example of mass transit infrastructure on a continent ruled by ramshackle, diesel-spewing buses.
But despite government promises, the roads below are still clogged with traffic 14 months after the light rail system's opening, and for many residents the city's network of overcrowded minibus taxis remain the only op ... more Singapore (UPI) Jan 25, 2017Machine-learning to inspire Singapore metro buildout  Budapest (AFP) Jan 19, 2017Hungary orders fraud probe into Budapest metro project  San Francisco (AFP) Jan 18, 2017'Hyperloop' rail study for Slovakia-Czech connection |
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 Miami (AFP) March 16, 2017  US President Donald Trump's proposed 2018 budget would slash funding for science, health and environmental programs at home and abroad, sparking an outcry Thursday among experts who say the cuts would endanger the planet.
The blueprint, which also includes sharp cuts in spending on the arts and foreign aid, has yet to undergo scrutiny in Congress and must be approved by lawmakers before it c ... more Jakarta (AFP) March 17, 2017Indonesia summons UK envoy over coral reef destruction  Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017China's severe winter haze tied to effects of global climate change  Washington (AFP) March 15, 2017Trump to undo Obama auto emission rules: official |
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