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EU and industry launch cleaner planes project (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Planes made in the European Union from 2015 may be quieter and less polluting thanks to a 1.6 billion euro ($2.4 billion) research project launched by the EU Commission and the aeronautics industry on Tuesday.
Aerospace firms will pool research to develop technology that cuts noise around airports and build engines that use less energy and can run on alternative fuels. |
Birds, bats and insects inspiration for new type of plane (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| Natural flyers like birds, bats and insects outperform man-made aircraft in aerobatics and efficiency. University of Michigan engineers are studying these animals as a step toward designing flapping-wing planes with wingspans smaller than a deck of playing cards.
A Blackbird jet flying nearly 2,000 miles per hour covers 32 body lengths per second. But a common pigeon flying at 50 miles per hour covers 75.
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How Will the U.S. Produce 36 Billion Gallons of Biofuel by 2022? (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| The new U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), signed into law last month as part of the revised Energy Bill, sets high goals for the U.S. biofuels industry. It calls for the production of 36 billion gallons of biofuels—mainly ethanol and biodiesel—annually by 2022, with 21 billion gallons coming from so-called “advanced biofuels,” which can be produced using a variety of new feedstocks and technologies. Of this, roughly 16 billion gallons is expected to be from “cellulosic biofuels,” derived from plant sources such as trees and grasses. |
Matsushita to offer thinner, greener plasma TVs (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| AMAGASAKI, Japan (Reuters) - Panasonic maker Matsushita said it planned to start selling plasma TVs next year that consume half as much power as its current models.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd also said it had developed a plasma TV just 24.7 mm (1 inch) thick -- quarter the thickness of its standard model, and it will start using this technology in products in the business year from April 2009. |
Bush budget calls for Arctic oil drilling in 2010 (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday again asked Congress to allow oil and natural gas drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, saying $7 billion could be raised in leasing fees from energy companies.
In its proposed budget for the 2009 spending year, which begins on October 1, the White House said it assumed the initial tracts in the refuge could be leased during 2010. |
Navy not exempt from California sonar curbs: judge (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
In the latest twist of a long-running battle between
environmentalists and the Navy, U.S. District Judge
Florence-Marie Cooper rejected the argument that the Navy was
exempt from federal environmental law because of what it said
was an urgent need to properly train its sailors to detect
quiet submarines. |
China asks for more leeway on greenhouse gas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| CANBERRA (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday it should be given more leeway over its rising greenhouse gas emissions as it was a world manufacturer and exporter, benefiting people at home and internationally.
"China is a manufacturing country. China produces lots of goods which are not only used in China, but all over the world," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told reporters in Australia. |
The Melting Pot, the Salad Bowl, and the Confucian Ideal (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 09:00:53
| Many political analysts concur that we are entering a multipolar world order. In the New York Times Magazine (Jan. 27), Parag Khanna argues that the new world order will be a tripolar competition between Europe, China, and the United States, each struggling to gain and maintain influence over a set of second-tier powers and peripheral regions.
Khanna also argues that each of these three "empires" has a different mode of engagement with other nations: the American model of aggressive military and political interventions, the European model of voluntary annexation of nearby states into its transnational institutions, and a Chinese style of consultative and pragmatic leadership based on mutual noninterference and national sovereignty. |
Indian law 'strangulates' biodiversity research (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 10:00:59
| [NEW DELHI] A group of Indian botanists say that the country's stringent biodiversity laws are stifling research.
In an article in the latest issue of Current Science (25 January), published by the Indian Academy of Sciences, the scientists say India's "draconian" rules on free exchange of biological samples could "totally isolate Indian biodiversity researchers and is akin to a self-imposed siege on scientists in the country".
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Vote With Your Heart (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 10:00:59
| Hillary, Barack, Mitt, or John? We’re not picking our favorite Beatle this time, my friends. No, this time we’re choosing one fine specimen to lead our country into 2012 (lord help us.)
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Making Agriculture Sustainable (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 02-05-2008 at 10:00:59
| Agriculture is possibly the most important sector of global activity. It is a source of foods, fibers and, increasingly, fuel. It provides livelihoods and subsistence for the largest number of people worldwide. It is vital to rural development and therefore critical to poverty alleviation. Up to 40% of the land’s surface is used for agriculture, along with 70% of the world’s fresh water supply. Today, agriculture accounts for 38.7% of total global employment.
Population growth and increasing affluence in some countries are increasing demand for food and changing the types of food in demand — from grain to meat, for example, a change that requires more farmland. More land is being used to grow fuel crops, and climate change and water scarcity are compromising the ability of agricultural lands to deliver quality produce.
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