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Google to reshoot Japan Street Views after privacy complaints
Tokyo (AFP) May 14, 2009US Internet giant Google has decided to reshoot Street View photos in Japan following complaints from people who said public images of their homes violated their privacy. The company's Japanese unit announced the decision Wednesday, saying it would take new photographs with the cameras set lower so the images accessible via net-based maps would not show photos looking into people's houses. ... more River Delta Areas Can Provide Clue To Environmental Changes 
College Station TX (SPX) May 13, 2009Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A and M University researcher who emphasizes that the historical information that can be gathered from sediment cores collected in and around these large deltaic regions is critical for a better understanding ... more Texas Company Launches New Line Of Ethanol Mini-Refineries 
Dallas TX (SPX) May 15, 2009Allard Research and Development has announced the availability of two new families of Ethanol Production Systems. Available in either a fully automated (EFS) or manual (MES) process technology, Allard Research offers a full line of feature-rich ethanol production systems that provide the world's first "mini-refinery" capabilities to businesses, municipalities, farm and ranch, and commercia ... more Sugarcane Ethanol Industry Eager To Implement US Renewable Fuel Standard 
Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2009The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) has welcomed the White House's announcement that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finally publish proposed rules to implement the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). UNICA confirmed that it would submit formal, detailed comments to the EPA in coming weeks. UNICA President and CEO Marcos Jank said from Brazil that his organizatio ... more Spirit rover stuck in Martian soil: NASA 
Los Angeles (AFP) May 12, 2009NASA's Spirit rover, which has been exploring Mars for evidence of water, has gotten stuck, perhaps inextricably, in the soft Martian soil, said officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "Spirit is in a very difficult situation. We are proceeding methodically and cautiously," JPL's John Callas, project manager for Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity, s ... more |
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Wilmington DE (SPX) May 12, 2009Robust research and development product pipelines and local investments in business infrastructure will continue to fuel double-digit growth of the DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition business through 2013, said two DuPont leaders during an investors' Business Review Series here. James C. Collins, Jr., vice president and general manager - DuPont Crop Protection, and Daniel Glat, Pioneer regio ... more Leading Indicators Of Land Degradation In Abu Dhabi 
Washington DC (SPX) May 12, 2009Desert environments are characterized by poor vegetative cover, strong winds, dry, non-cohesive sandy soils, and hyper-arid conditions. In this context, the land resources of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling, and overgrazing. To sustain the land resources ... more Nordic Windpower Awarded Contracts For 19MW Of Wind Projects 
Chicago IL (SPX) May 12, 2009Nordic Windpower USA has announced that it has been awarded contracts for 19 of its N1000 one-megawatt wind turbines for public- and private-sector community wind projects in North and South America. The 70 meter high N1000 turbine, with blades 59 meters in diameter, will provide clean and renewable wind energy for schools, wind farms, a military base, a municipal utility, and a sustainabl ... more GE Energy AND WSI Launch Forecasting Technology For Wind Farms 
Chicago IL (SPX) May 12, 2009GE Energy and WSI Corporation are joining forces to launch more accurate forecasting tools for wind farm owner/operators and transmission/distribution providers. GE Energy and WSI have announced that they have formed an alliance. "This relationship brings together two technology platforms to further the science of wind forecasting and its use in wind farm operations," said Victor Abate ... more Soft Ground Puts Mars Rover Spirit In Danger 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 12, 2009The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground. The rover team of engineers and scientists has suspended driving Spirit temporarily while studying the ground around the rover and planning simulation tests of driving options with a test rover ... more |
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Dayton OH (SPX) May 11, 2009EcoSystem has announced its plans to conduct operational trials of its Feedstock Machine at targeted poultry and swine processing companies. The Feedstock Machine is an integrated, scalable solution that converts poultry and swine manure into high protein feeds, natural oils, and high quality soil amendments. The Feedstock Machine consists of three major subsystems: ... more Bioelectricity Promises More Miles Per Acre Than Ethanol 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 11, 2009Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand farmland will aggravate the climate change problem. How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet ... more India Using ESRI Software For Image Processing 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has reached an agreement with NIIT GIS Limited (ESRI India), ESRI's distributor in India, to equip its five Regional Remote Sensing Service Centres (RRSSCs) with ArcGIS Server and the Image extension. The centers in Jodhpur, Dehradun, Kharagpur, Nagpur, and Bangalore use Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite and other imagery to create thematic ... more Brazil drought staunches famed Iguazu falls 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) May 7, 2009An acute drought in Brazil has hit the famed horseshoe-shaped Igauzu falls which straddle two countries, cutting back the tumbling waters to reveal the rocky sides. Only a third of the usual volume of water is now flowing over the top of the stunning falls, which were listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1984 and border both Brazil and Argentina, Globo television said. At the foo ... more Domesticated bee numbers soar amid buzzing demand 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009The number of domesticated bees is on the rise worldwide despite declining numbers of wild honey bees in the United States and Europe, a study said Thursday. "The honey bee decline observed in the USA and in other European countries including Great Britain, which has been attributed in part to parasitic mites and more recently to colony collapse disorder, could be misguiding us to think that ... more
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