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  Madrid (AFP) March 28, 2018 Sun-drenched Spain should be a natural for solar energy, and it is here that the technology is making an effort to stand on its feet financially without subsidies. Investors are now betting again on solar power generation in Spain, which for a decade was in the shadows as the country cut subsidies for the clean but expensive source of energy. A plunge in the price of solar panels and lower construction costs has changed the maths, and new projects are moving forward again. Iberdrola, Spain ... read more |
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China considering energy storage mandate for windWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 In response to a potential mandate, a California-based energy company said it installed a battery storage system for wind power in the Chinese capital. ... more  
China tightens rules on transferring tech know-howBeijing (AFP) March 30, 2018 China has issued new guidelines on transferring intellectual property rights from Chinese firms or individuals to foreign investors, as global tensions rise over technology theft. ... more  
Atomically thin light-emitting device opens the possibility for 'invisible' displaysBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 UC Berkeley engineers have built a bright-light emitting device that is millimeters wide and fully transparent when turned off. The light emitting material in this device is a monolayer semiconducto ... more  
US blasts 'unfair' Chinese tariffs on 128 productsBeijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 The United States on Monday blasted as "unfair" Chinese tariffs imposed on 128 US imports worth $3 billion, including fruit and pork, in the latest tit-for-tat over US duties on steel and aluminium. ... more |
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Trump rolls back Obama-era fuel efficiency rulesWashington (AFP) April 2, 2018 The Trump administration rolled back Obama-era pollution and fuel efficiency rules for cars and light trucks on Monday, saying they were too stringent. ... more  
Microsoft shakes up ranks to shoot for the cloudSan Francisco (AFP) March 29, 2018 Microsoft on Thursday announced a big managerial shakeup including the departure of the head of its Windows group as the technology pushes deeper into a future in the cloud. ... more 
China factory activity drops to four-month low in March: CaixinBeijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 Chinese manufacturing activity slowed in March as weak demand weighed on the world's second largest economy, independent data showed Monday. ... more  
Gas-rich Papua New Guinea still coping with earthquake damageWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 More than a month after an earthquake crippled Papua New Guinea's gas potential, the World Food Program said a quarter million people still need aid. ... more 
Oil spill cleanup fire kills two in IndonesiaJakarta (AFP) March 31, 2018 At least two people died in a fire as Indonesian authorities tried to cleanup an oil spill off Borneo island Saturday, an official said. ... more |
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 Oil prices turn lower despite North American rig count decline 
Iraqi oil exports increased in MarchWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 Data show March exports from Iraq, one of OPEC's top producers, at an average of 3.4 million barrels of oil per day were slightly higher than the previous month. ... more  |
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U.S. strikes environmental bell with next offshore lease(UPI) Apr 2, 2018 Giving drillers the rights to reach nearly 50 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will come with a degree of responsibility, the U.S. government said. ... more 
Bahrain announces its largest oil discovery everWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 The government of Bahrain said it made the largest discovery of oil ever made since the exploration in the kingdom started in the 1930s. ... more 
Expect stability from oil-rich Kazakhstan, Fitch Ratings saysWashington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2018 The outlook for a pipeline company that controls about half of the oil flow in Kazakhstan remains stable and supportive of growth, Fitch Ratings said. ... more 
Oracle's big-money case against Google gets new lifeSan Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 An appeals court on Tuesday gave Oracle another shot at wringing billions of dollars from Google in a keenly watched legal battle over the use of freely available Java software code. ... more 
Alibaba acquisition values meal-deliverer Ele.me at $9.5 bnShanghai (AFP) April 2, 2018 Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said Monday it was acquiring full ownership of leading food-delivery firm Ele.me in a deal that values the Shanghai-based start-up at $9.5 billion. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 2, 2018  The Trump administration rolled back Obama-era pollution and fuel efficiency rules for cars and light trucks on Monday, saying they were too stringent.
The decision by President Donald Trump's Environmental Protection Agency means the emission standards for vehicles in the 2022-2025 model years will be revised, as sought by automakers.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
A new approach to analyzing and designing new ion conductors - a key component of rechargeable batteries - could accelerate the development of high-energy lithium batteries, and possibly other energy storage and delivery devices such as fuel cells, researchers say.
The new approach relies on understanding the way vibrations move through the crystal lattice of lithium ion conductors and cor ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
The Evolution of Wind Power is the result of a cooperation between The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and renewable energy software company Greenbyte. The interactive map reveals the cumulative installed capacity per country, continent and the world between 1981-2018. Let's take a closer look at the figures and see what has happened in the past twelve months.
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 The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Airborne Aerospace has been awarded a contract by Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands to manufacture 48 substrate panels for the solar arrays of twelve new Galileo FOC satellites. The contract, carried out under a programme of the European Union, is the latest result of years of successful collaboration between the two Dutch companies to power the Galileo constellation.
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) March 26, 2018 
The United Arab Emirates said Monday that one of four nuclear reactors at its debut plant has been completed as it moves closer to becoming the first Arab nation to produce atomic power.
The announcement came after visiting South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed toured the $20-billion Barakah plant, the state-run WAM news agency reported.
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a new enzyme that will enable microbial production of a renewable alternative to petroleum-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasoline that has a global market of 29 million tons per year.
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 (UPI) Apr 2, 2018 
Giving drillers the rights to reach nearly 50 billion barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico will come with a degree of responsibility, the U.S. government said.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced it's putting 77.3 million acres on the auction block for oil and gas drillers Aug. 15. It's the third offshore lease under a five-year lease plan by President Donald Trump, who ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) March 27, 2018 
Canada will likely miss a 2020 interim carbon emissions reduction target and will need to take strong measures if it further hopes to meet its Paris agreement commitment, said an audit released Tuesday.
Canada had set a target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to global warming by 17 percent by 2020, from 2005 levels, and by 30 percent by 2030.
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 
Coal will no longer be used as an energy source for Michigan residents as more renewables come on stream in the decades ahead, a utility company said.
Public utility company Consumers Energy, which provides gas and electricity to about 60 percent of the state population, said it would no longer be using coal as a power source by 2040. By then, the company said it expects more than 40 pe ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the the F/A-18A-F and EA-18G fighter jets for the U.S. and foreign countries.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $34.4 million under the terms of a previously issued firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order contract.
The agreement enables Boei ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 
US federal investigators said Tuesday they were examining a fatal crash last week involving a Tesla electric automobile in California.
The California Highway Patrol reported that a 38-year-old man died Friday after his 2017 Tesla Model X collided with a highway barrier near the town of Mountain View, according to The San Jose Mercury News.
The vehicle caught fire before two other approac ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 
It's easy and economical to make shiny pellets of graphite from functionalized graphene, according to scientists at Rice University.
A report in Carbon shows how chemically altered graphene powder can be pressed into a lightweight, semiporous solid that retains many of the strong and conductive qualities of graphite, the form of carbon found in pencils, lubricants and many other products t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables crisscross the globe and package everything from financial data to cat videos into light. But when the signal arrives at your local data center, it runs into a silicon bottleneck. Instead of light, computers run on electrons moving through silicon-based chips - which, despite huge advances, are still less efficient than photonics.
To break through t ... more |
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 Cotonou (AFP) March 22, 2018 
Benin's President Patrice Talon has asked local firm Petrolin and French giant Bollore to "withdraw" from a major rail infrastructure project to make way for China, in the latest development of the controversial scheme.
In an interview published on Thursday in the French magazine Challenges, Talon asked the two companies to "withdraw amicably from the project", which links Benin to Niger to ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 30, 2018 
Russia on Friday declared a "high alert" in a town where noxious fumes have leaked from a landfill site, distributing masks and respirators to residents who have held repeated protests.
The Kremlin said it was closely watching the situation in Volokolamsk, a town of around 20,000 people about 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Moscow.
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