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The Natural Gas as Bridge Idea

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US Company Sending Wind Energy Parts To China

The Timken Company yesterday announced that it had received a contract worth US$26 million to supply wind turbine products and services to China’s Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Company, one of the top five wind power equipment manufacturers in the world.

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‘Sea urchin’-shaped nanostructures grown in the lab

Researchers have succeeded in growing sea-urchin shaped nanostructures from minute balls of polystyrene beads using a simple electrochemical process. The spines of the sea urchin consist of zinc oxide nanowires. The structured surface should help increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic devices.

View full post on ScienceDaily: Solar Energy News

On Our Radar: BP Writes Off Spill Costs

Will half of BP’s spill escrow fund come out of government coffers?

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Parents mourn 2 boys killed by storm in Haiti camp (AP)

Destroyed window frame is seen inside the M Star oil tanker in this handout photo taken on July 28, 2010, near the Emirati port of Fujairah, and released on July 29, 2010 by the ship's owners Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd in Tokyo. Japanese shipper Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd said on Thursday it has hired a military attack specialist to help it investigate the cause of damage to a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.The supertanker was diverted to a UAE port on Wednesday where officials said the damage, which stirred fears of an attack in the straight, was caused by a freak wave. But a Mitsui O.S.K. company official said at a news briefing in Tokyo that the damage was unlikely to have been caused by an earthquake-related wave. It will begin a full-fledged investigation on Thursday. QUALITY FROM SOURCE  REUTERS/Mitsui O.S.K. Lines/Handout (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNSAP – Distraught parents mourned the loss of two children in a camp for Haitian earthquake survivors Wednesday, a day after rains caused a wall to collapse on top of a row of tarp homes.


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Researchers suggest to make biodiesel from butter

butter feedstock for biodiesel

If we go by what we learned about algal biofuel production yesterday, we seriously need to dwell on an alternative for this. Michael Haas and his colleagues conducted a study and they have concluded that butter could be a feedstock for biodiesel production. If biodiesel is produced this way, it will help the U.S. meet the target of producing 36 billion gallons of biofuel by 2022.

Does Vitamin Water Pass the "Jelly Bean Rule" Test?

A lawsuit is proceeding, challenging the use of nutrition buzz words on a beverage that is fortified with vitamins… but also filled with a surprising amount of sugar.

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Gov’t warned company about oil pipeline monitoring (AP)

Raul Vervuzco of Eagle Services uses a suction hose to clean oil from atop the Kalamazoo River, Wednesday, July 28, 2010, in a containment area in Augusta, Mich. A company operating a pipeline that dumped more than 800,000 gallons of oil into a southern Michigan river said Wednesday that it is doubling its work force on the containment and cleanup effort. (AP Photo/The Kalamazoo Gazette, Jonathon Gruenke) MANDATORY CREDITAP – A Canadian company whose pipeline leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a Michigan river was warned by government regulators in January that its monitoring of corrosion in the pipeline was insufficient.


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Genes Influence Your Response to Others’ Drinking Habits (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Your genes may determine how likely you are to imitate the drinking
habits of others, new research suggests.

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Utility-scale Battery Research Underway

What happens when the U.S. government awards DuPont, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bosch, and 3M $1.6 million to develop a longer-lasting, less expensive way to store clean energy? We will soon find out.

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