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  Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility. The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed by several years amid regulatory and legal hurdles. While a lease was granted in 2016, Adani is still seeking to secure funding for the first stage of ... read more |
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Fukushima operator aims to double visitors by Tokyo OlympicsFukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Japan (AFP) Feb 2, 2018 Fukushima's nuclear power operator is hoping to double the number of visitors to its tsunami-ravaged facilities by 2020, seeking to use the Olympic spotlight to clean up the region's image. ... more  
Using electricity to switch magnetismVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 It's not exactly a new revelation that electricity and magnetism are closely linked. And yet, magnetic and electrical effects have been studied separately for some time now within the field of mater ... more 
Weak hydrogen bonds key to strong, tough infrastructureHouston TX (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 The right mix of hydrogen bonds in polymer and cement composites is critical to making strong, tough and ductile infrastructure material, according to Rice University scientists who want to mimic th ... more  
Colorado updates clean energy visionWashington (UPI) Feb 1, 2018 Building on executive actions from July, Colorado's governor revised the state climate plan to include emissions abatement and an electric vehicle corridor. ... more |
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Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dotsBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a s ... more 
Piecework at the nano assembly lineMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than ... more  
NMRCloudQ: A quantum cloud experience on a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum computerBeijinhg, China (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 Quantum computers are coming and attract attentions from scientists all over the world. However, as of today, no one can tell when a universal quantum computer with thousands of logical quantum bits ... more 
Thanks for the memory: NIST takes a deep look at memristorsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 In the race to build a computer that mimics the massive computational power of the human brain, researchers are increasingly turning to memristors, which can vary their electrical resistance based o ... more 
New metal-semiconductor interface for brain-inspired computingGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 One of the big challenges in computer architecture is integrating storage, memory and processing in one unit. This would make computers faster and more energy efficient. University of Groningen phys ... more |
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US restricts arms transfers to bloodied South SudanWashington (AFP) Feb 2, 2018 Appalled by ongoing violence in South Sudan, Washington on Friday restricted arms transfers to the African country where tens of thousands have died in civil war. ... more  |
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Russian GDP growth still forecast below 2 percentWashington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 Though oil prices are flirting with historic highs, growth in Russia's gross domestic product won't reach 2 percent in the near term, the Central Bank said. ... more 
Oil prices follow broader markets lowerWashington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 Crude oil prices followed broader stock market indices Monday, trending lower on rising U.S. output and fears of increasing inflationary pressures. ... more 
Aker BP continues to probe December rig fatalityWashington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 Norwegian oil and gas producer said in announcing its fourth quarter results it was still looking into what led to a fatal accident on a rig in December. ... more 
Kashagan oil exports reach milestoneWashington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 By the end of January, the operator of the Kashagan oil field in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea said it exported more than 70 million barrels of oil. ... more 
Oil from stricken Iranian vessel may have reached JapanWashington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 It's possible that oil from an Iranian tanker that sunk off the coast of China last month has reached the coast of Japan, maritime officials said. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 
U.S. consumers should be the ones sharing in the corporate tax breaks for utility companies outlined in the federal code reform, state energy agencies said.
President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code in late December, extending temporary relief to American taxpayers and permanent breaks for corporations, with oil, gas and utility companies sharing ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
Hydrogen is one of the most abundant elements on Earth and an exceptionally clean fuel source. While it is making its way into the fuel cells of electric cars, busses and heavy equipment, its widespread use is hampered by the expensive gas-separation process required to produce pure hydrogen.
But that process could soon become more efficient and cost-effective thanks to a discovery by an i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 
The Irish government, despite what happens for Great Britain, is committed to the European Union's energy and renewable policies, the environment minister said.
"Ireland is now a world leader in integrating renewables onto the electricity grid," Irish Environment Minister Denis Naughten said in comments emailed Wednesday from a renewable energy conference in Dublin. "Whatever the final ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Kyocera Corporation and Tokyo Century Corporation report that Kyocera TCL Solar LLC has completed construction of a 21.1 megawatt (MW) utility-scale solar power plant in Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. 78,144 Kyocera solar modules were installed on approximately 1km2 of land originally planned for the construction of an industrial waste disposal facility which was abandoned, then repurpo ... more |
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 Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
Scientists from the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering of Tomsk Polytechnic University are developing a technology enabling the creation of high-temperature gas-cool low-power reactors with thorium fuel.
TPU scientists propose to burn weapons-grade plutonium in these units, converting it into power and thermal energy. Thermal energy generated at thorium reactors may be used in hydro ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
When John Wesley Hyatt patented the first industrial plastic in 1869, his intention was to create an alternative to the elephant tusk ivory used to make piano keys. But this early plastic also sparked a revolution in the way people thought about manufacturing: What if we weren't limited to the materials nature had to offer?
Over a century later, plastics are an abundant part of daily life. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 2, 2018 
Opening up the potential for oil and gas in parts of an Alaskan wildlife refuge was one of the biggest components of the tax overhaul, the U.S. president said.
The U.S. tax reform passed late last year included language inserted by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, that opened the so-called section 1002 Area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drillers. Murkowski's office said t ... more |
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 Laramie WY (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
University of Wyoming researchers led a climate study that determined recent temperatures across Europe and North America appear to have few, if any, precedent in the past 11,000 years.
The study revealed important natural fluctuations in climate have occurred over past millennia, which would have naturally led to climatic cooling today in the absence of human activity.
Bryan Shuman, ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2018 
Embattled Indian miner Adani's plans for a massive coal project in Australia has been dealt another blow after the government confirmed Sunday it would not fund a rail link to the facility.
The development of the controversial US$16 billion Carmichael mine near the Great Barrier Reef is set to be one of the world's largest. But it has been delayed by several years amid regulatory and legal h ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2018 
China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, launched in June last year, is put into service for scientific research on Tuesday after finishing in-orbit tests.
It embodies a new phase of China's high-energy astronomy research, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and China National Space Administration.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 24, 2018 
EFW Inc. has been awarded a contract for Apache Aviator Integrated Helmets and associated spare parts for the U.S. Army.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $12.6 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract agreement.
The Apache Aviator Integrated Helmet is a critical piece of hardware for pilots of the AH-64 Apache helicopt ... more |
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 Golden CO (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
An influx of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) charging without coordination could prove challenging to the nation's electric grid, according to research conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Matteo Muratori, a transportation and energy systems engineer at NREL and author of the new Nature Energy paper, "Impact of Uncoordinated Plug-in Ele ... more |
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 Changchun, China (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
Energy influences the rates of chemical reactions dramatically. Simply heating a gas-phase reaction system deposits energy indiscriminately in internal and translational motions of precursor and intermediate molecules. More specific excitations of energy states in the molecules can control the courses of a reaction. Control of chemical reactions is an intriguing concept.
The practical reas ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Nagoya University-led researchers produce 2D sheets of tin atoms predicted to have exotic uses in electronics.
Nagoya, Japan - Sometimes it pays to be two-dimensional. The merits of graphene, a 2D sheet of carbon atoms, are well established. In its wake have followed a host of "post-graphene materials" - structural analogues of graphene made of other elements like silicon or germanium.
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 Mumbai (AFP) Jan 21, 2018 
A new underground metro is expected to ease the burden on Mumbai's notoriously congested roads and railways, but not everybody in India's sprawling financial capital is happy about the multi-billion-dollar project.
Announced in 2014 with much fanfare, the Metro 3 line has been hailed by backers as essential to help solve the city's traffic woes and finally provide a link to its airports.
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
Tiny plastic particles also present a threat to creatures on land and may have damaging effects similar or even more problematic than in our oceans. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and their Berlin colleagues warn: the impact of microplastics in soils, sediments and the freshwaters could have a long-term negative effect on terrestrial ecosy ... more |
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