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U.S. Defense aims for clean energy
Washington (UPI) Sep 23, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Defense spending on alternative energy could top $10 billion annually by 2030, a new study says.
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Iraq eclipses 2010 oil income in eight months of 2011
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - Higher oil prices and rising exports in the first eight months of the year have meant Iraq has already eclipsed the total amount it earned from crude exports in 2010, figures published on Thursday showed.
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Nigeria army gives oil rebels one week to seek amnesty
Abuja (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - Nigeria's security forces on Thursday gave rebels in the oil-rich Niger Delta region one week to seek amnesty, an offer that has previously curbed violence in the turbulent region.
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Philippines seeks ASEAN help to blunt China
Manila (AFP) Sept 22, 2011 - The Philippines on Thursday sought backing from its Southeast Asian neighbours for its plan to blunt China's claims over disputed areas of the South China Sea and ease tensions.
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Libyan oil needs two years to recover
Benghazi, Libya (UPI) Sep 22, 2011 - Libya's oil industry, lynchpin of the North African country's economy, isn't expected to return to its pre-civil war production level of 1.6 million barrels per day for at least two years.
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Microwave ovens a key to energy production from wasted heat
Corvallis OR (SPX) Sep 22, 2011 - More than 60 percent of the energy produced by cars, machines, and industry around the world is lost as waste heat - an age-old problem - but researchers have found a new way to make thermoelectric
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Researchers sequence dark matter of life
San Diego CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2011 - Researchers have developed a new method to sequence and analyze the dark matter of life-the genomes of thousands of bacteria species previously beyond scientists' reach, from microorganisms that pro
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Saltwater boosts microbial electrolysis cells to cleanly produce hydrogen
University Park PA (SPX) Sep 22, 2011 - A grain of salt or two may be all that microbial electrolysis cells need to produce hydrogen from wastewater or organic byproducts, without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere or using grid elec
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Cyprus begins drilling despite controversy
Nicosia, Cyprus (UPI) Sep 21, 2011 - The Greek Cypriot government says it's going ahead with exploratory offshore oil drilling despite objections from Turkey, which calls the move provocative.
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Gas drilling heightens east Med tension
Limassol, Cyprus (UPI) Sep 21, 2011 - Tension in the eastern Mediterranean rose sharply this week when Greek Cypriots started drilling for natural gas off the divided island.
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Explosion at Iraq oil field partially halts output
Basra, Iraq (AFP) Sept 20, 2011 - An explosion at Iraq's biggest oil field on Tuesday sparked a massive fire that partially halted crude production, the state-owned South Oil Co and Britain's BP said.
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Philippine leader says China to be ‘reasonable’
New York (AFP) Sept 20, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino said Tuesday that he expected China to be reasonable over tense territorial disputes so long as Beijing is given a way to save face.
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Brazil energy boom spurs $1 billion deals
Rio De Janeiro (UPI) Sep 20, 2011 - Brazil's energy boom is generating contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, the latest of those worth more than $1 billion going to multinational giants GE and Teledyne, and industry analysts predict more business for U.S. companies.
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Payout agreed over San Francisco oil spill
San Francisco (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - The owners and operators of a cargo ship that struck San Francisco's Bay Bridge four years ago causing a huge oil spill are to pay $44.4 million in compensation, under a deal announced Monday.
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Philippines to raise China sea dispute with Japan
Manila (AFP) Sept 19, 2011 - Philippine President Benigno Aquino will raise his country's territorial disputes with China over the resource-rich South China Sea when he visits Japan later this month, his spokesman said Monday.
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Air Force Academy Harnesses Ocean Wave Energy
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 19, 2011 - Air Force Academy aeronautics researchers have finished the largest test of their Ocean Wave Energy Converter to date at the Offshore Technology Research Center in College Station, Texas. The