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New Hazard Estimates Could Downplay Quake Dangers
Santa Fe NM (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The dangers posed by a major earthquake in the New Madrid and Charleston, South Carolina zones in the Midwestern and Southern parts of the United States may be noticeably lower than current estimates if seismologists adjust one of the major assumptions that go into calculating seismic hazard, according to a study presented at the Seismological Society of America. The study revolves around ... more Mars Technology On Board A Balloon To Study The Earth's Atmosphere 
Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Apr 22, 2008"From Mars to the Earth and back" is the theme when the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and University of Bern in Switzerland build and launch a mass spectrometer on a stratospheric balloon from SSC's operational facility Esrange Space Center in Kiruna. The project is called MEAP (Mars Environment Analogue Platform) and will be carried out ... more Europe Spends Nearly Twice As Much As US On Nanotech Risk Research 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2008A new analysis by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) indicates that European nations are investing nearly twice as much as the U.S. in research primarily aimed at addressing the potential risks of nanotechnology. The analysis also highlights a substantial over-inflation of the federal government's nanotechnology risk-research investment figures for the U.S. The new PEN assessment ... more Commentary: Not by bread alone 
Washington, April 21, 2008 With the world consuming more food than it produces and global grain stocks at their lowest in 30 years, food prices are soaring from Indonesia to Indiana. Some experts called it the perfect storm and others a tsunami. More intense and more frequent weather disasters put an increasing number of people at risk of hunger. Food riots broke out in widely scattered parts of the world, even hounding ... more Water Needed To Produce Various Energy Types 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008It is easy to overlook that most of the energy we consume daily, such as electricity or natural gas, is produced with the help of a dwindling resource - fresh water. Virginia Tech professor Tamim Younos and undergraduate student Rachelle Hill are researching the water-efficiency of some of the most common energy sources and power generating methods. Younos, associate director at the Virgin ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The Earth's jet streams, the high-altitude bands of fast winds that strongly influence the paths of storms and other weather systems, are shifting-possibly in response to global warming. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution determined that over a 23-year span from 1979 to 2001 the jet streams in both hemispheres have risen in altitude and shifted toward the poles. The jet stream in the ... more Britain wants to develop CO2 'capture' knowhow: minister 
Rome (AFP) April 21, 2008Britain hopes to develop a new technology to "capture" and store carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels instead of letting it out into the atmosphere, British Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks said Monday. "The realists among us recognise that going forward for much of this century, the vast majority of our energy in the world will (still) come from fossil fuels," Wicks told journalists at the ... more Waste Management Opens Landfill Gas-To-Energy Facility At Hampton's Bethel Landfill 
Hampton VA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008Waste Management has officially opened its latest waste-based renewable energy facility at the companys Bethel Landfill. The green energy produced from the landfill gas will provide power for the service area of the landfill and beyond through the electrical transmission grid. The landfill gas-to-energy (LFGTE) facility at the Bethel Landfill will produce 4.8 megawatts of green electricity ... more U.S. to fund three biorefinery projects 
Washington, April 21, 2008 The U.S. Department of Energy says it's selected small-scale biorefinery projects in Maine, Kentucky and Tennessee for up to $86 million in funding. The four-year projects are designed to support development of small-scale cellulosic technology biorefineries in Old Town, Maine; Vonore, Tenn.; and Washington County, Ky. "Sustained investments in cellulosic fuels made from corn cob ... more PA Building New Energy Economy With Cambria County Wind Farm 
Adams Township PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2008A former Cambria County strip mine that has since been reclaimed will soon be home to 25 wind turbines generating enough power to meet the needs of 16,000 homes, Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty said as she helped to break ground on the Highland wind project. According to the secretary, the $140 million effort shows Pennsylvanias leadership in clean, renewable energy ... more |
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United Nations (AFP) April 21, 2008Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed scrapping capitalism and developing clean energies as part of radical measures "to save the planet and mankind." "If we really want to save the planet, we must eliminate the capitalist system," Bolivia's first indigenous president told hundreds of indigenous delegates from around the world. Morales argued that the capitalist system was mainly ... more High oil prices here to stay, energy forum hears 
Rome (AFP) April 21, 2008High oil prices are here to stay, but they cannot be blamed for the current global food crisis, an international forum heard on Monday. Biofuels, once seen as a key factor in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, lie behind the stunning rise in food prices worldwide, participants at the International Energy Forum suggested. "A conflict (is) emerging between foodstuffs and fuel ... with ... more Hannover Messe 2008: Experts To Outline Potential Of Alternative Fuels 
Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 22, 2008The rising price of gasoline and concern about greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are bringing fuel efficiency to the forefront in Germany. Fuel efficiency and alternative fuels will be topics of an expert panel at the Clean Moves Exposition during the Hannover Messe on April 23, 2008 at 10:30am. Alternative fuels are playing a significant role in reducing auto emissions. Research is developing ... more Biogas Production Is All In The Mixing 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 22, 2008Engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, using an impressive array of imaging and tracking technologies, have determined the importance of mixing in anaerobic digesters for bioenergy production and animal and farm waste treatment. Anaerobic digesters employ reactors that use bacteria to break down organic matter in the absence of oxygen. They are studying ways to take "the smell of ... more Biofuels under fire at International Energy Forum 
Rome (AFP) April 21, 2008Biofuels, once seen as a key factor in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, are behind the current global food crisis, major oil producers and consumers charged at an energy forum here on Monday. "A conflict (is) emerging between foodstuffs and fuel ... with disastrous social conflicts and dubious environmental results," outgoing Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told the International ... more
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