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Farmers May Finally Get Reliable Forecasts
Sydney NSW (SPX) Feb 17, 2009The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) have applauded the efforts of researchers at the University of NSW who claim to have found correlating links between the Indian Ocean dipole and the weather and rainfall patterns experienced in Australia. "These findings, if verified and supported through scientific review, could be the missing piece in the puzzle for Australia's farmers and their ... more Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 15, 2009When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say. Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week. That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada. ... more EU foiled in bid to force France, Greece to allow GM crop 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 16, 2009The European Commission was foiled Monday in its bid to force France and Greece to allow genetically modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto to be grown in their fields. Food chain experts from the EU member states, meeting in Brussels, could not reach agreement on whether to back or oppose the French and Greek refusal to allow the maize, which has been given the green light to be ... more New Method Monitors Critical Bacteria In Wastewater Treatment 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 17, 2009Researchers have developed a new technique using sensors to constantly monitor the health of bacteria critical to wastewater treatment facilities and have verified a theory that copper is vital to the proper functioning of a key enzyme in the bacteria. The new method senses minute changes in chemistry related to bacterial health and yields results immediately, unlike conventional ... more Clear Skies Solar Begins Preliminary Engineering On Solar Farm In Cantil 
New York NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2009Clear Skies Solar has initiated project engineering on an $11 million, 3.2MW solar farm in Cantil, CA, to be built on 34 acres of company-owned land. Less than three months ago Ezra Green, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Clear Skies Solar, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, stating that a California project was stalled due to a lack of funding. Since that time, module ... more |
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Mirindanyi, Sudan (AFP) Feb 15, 2009It seems such a simple task: pumping the handle of a water borehole up and down until the clear and cool liquid splashes into the plastic container. And in the dry and dusty southern Sudanese village of Mirindanyi, they have been celebrating doing just that since their pump was installed last year. But it was not always this way. Beforehand, "it took two hours to the river to collect the ... more Wildfires last straw for parched Australian wineries 
Dixons Creek, Australia (AFP) Feb 15, 2009For Australia's Yarra Valley winegrowers, the region's recent devastating wildfires were the last straw. Best known for its pinots and chardonnays, the once-picturesque wine region is now dotted with scorched paddocks and vines. Burnt-out cars on the roadside are a grim testament to those who left their escape much too late. Some 80 wineries were hard-hit, losing vines, sheds, warehouses ... more Ma Jun: China's environmental patriot 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2009In China, where dissent is often brutally suppressed, publicly shaming powerful corporations for destroying the environment is fraught with risk. Ma Jun treads carefully. The author of "China's Water Crisis," a savage catalogue of the country's environmental collapse, Ma now takes the fight to polluters, shaming factories on a website run by his non-governmental organisation the Institute of ... more E-Fuel And Sierra Nevada Brewing Join Forces 
Los Gatos CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2009The E-Fuel Corporation has reached an agreement with Sierra Nevada Brewing to create high-grade ethanol fuel from discarded beer yeast. E-Fuel, the inventor of the world's first home ethanol system - the Efuel100 MicroFueler - and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its ... more Global Energy Announces Waste-to-Energy Production Trial 
New York NY (SPX) Feb 16, 2009AlphaKat, led by Dr. Christian Koch and Global Energy have conducted a first round of municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstock tests as part of the commissioning phase for AlphaKat's first-generation, commercial scale KDV 500 waste-to-diesel process. The KDV 500 is designed to produce 145 gallons (550 liters) of high quality diesel fuel from an average of 1.5 tons of MSW per hour. The trial ... more |
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Livermore, Calif. (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 A nine-month study has found plant and forestry wastes and dedicated energy crops could replace nearly a third of U.S. gasoline use by 2030. The research conducted by the Sandia National Laboratories and the General Motors Corp. was designed to discover whether and how much cellulosic biofuels could be sustainably produced. Researchers said they assessed the feasibility, implicat ... more NASA Mission Meets The Carbon Dioxide Measurement Challenge 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2009The challenge: very precisely measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere all over the world, especially near Earth's surface. For Orbiting Carbon Observatory Principal Investigator David Crisp of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and his team, the logical solution was an Earth-orbiting spacecraft. But shopping for a science instrument that could accomplish these ... more Saudi and Chinese firms in power and desalination tie up 
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 11, 2009A Chinese electric power giant and a Saudi power company on Wednesday announced an alliance to work together on power and desalinisation projects around the world. Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group (SECPG) and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power International said in a press conference that they already have two projects to cooperate on, one in Saudi Arabia and the other in a nearby Gulf ... more China probes safety of Danone products: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 11, 2009Chinese authorities are investigating whether Danone Dumex, the powdered-milk unit of France's Danone Group, had produced milk powder contaminated with a harmful chemical, state media said Wednesday. The report follows a massive scandal in China in which milk supplies contaminted with melamine were blamed for killing six infants and sickening nearly 300,000. Xinhua news agency said the ... more China's returning migrants: Strangers in a strange land 
Zhugao, China (AFP) Feb 12, 2009With his Phoenix Suns windbreaker and a trendy hairdo that blasts off to one side of his head, Liu Tong appears totally out of place in the backward Chinese farming town he is forced to call home. No one knows it more than Liu, 22, a migrant worker from Zhugao in rural Sichuan province who is struggling to readjust to life here after getting laid off from a factory job on China's vastly more ... more
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