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Central Asia’s electricity sector
Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2007 - Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country. -- Vladimir Lenin (1920), Collected Works, Vol. 31, page 516.
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China, Japan agree to talks on disputed gas field
Sydney (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - Japan and China on Thursday agreed to hold further talks on proposed joint exploration of a disputed natural gas field in the East China Sea, a Japanese official said.
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China Southern orders 55 planes from Boeing
New York (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - China Southern Airlines has ordered 55 next-generation 737 jets from US aviation giant Boeing, the companies announced Thursday.
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Protests as BBC scraps planned green day
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - The BBC has dropped plans to hold a day of programming highlighting the threat from climate change, it said Thursday, in a move which has drawn sharp criticism from environmental groups.
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Shell defends environmental record in Argentina
London (AFP) Sept 6, 2007 - Anglo-Dutch oil firm Royal Dutch Shell on Thursday defended standards at its Argentina operations after authorities there closed a Shell refinery near Buenos Aires on environmental grounds.
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Nigeria restructuring oil works
Miami (UPI) Sep 6, 2007 - Nigeria has decided to break down its state-run oil company into five different entities in an effort to become more efficient and profitable, while curtailing corruption.
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Australia And China Partner For A Low-Emission Energy Future
Newcastle, Australia (SPX) Sep 06, 2007 - Australia and China today signed a partnership agreement that will pave the way for the installation of low-emission coal energy technology in Beijing next year. Signed by CSIRO Chief Executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, and Mr Li Xiaopeng, the President of China's state-owned energy enterprise, the China Huaneng Group, the agreement will see a post combustion capture pilot plant installed at the Huaneng Beijing Co-generation Power Plant.
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Oil and security for Iraq investors
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 5, 2007 - Security in Iraq is a major holdup to investment there, sometimes second only to the lack of a law governing Iraq's vast oil and gas reserves.
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Composite Technology’s DeWind Announces Texas Wind Turbine Demonstration Site
Irvine CA (SPX) Sep 05, 2007 - Composite Technology has announced that is its subsidiary DeWind, in association with Texas State Technical College (TSTC), has signed a Memorandum of Intent with the City of Sweetwater to establish a Wind Turbine Demonstration Site on city owned land. DeWind will install its 2 megawatt 60Hz DeWind D8.2 prototype on the site in the Fall of 2007. Further development and prototype turbines will be installed at the site over the next 5 years.
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Grain Will Not Become Oil
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 05, 2007 - Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeyev will discuss a possibility of creating an OPEC-like grain cartel with his colleagues from Australia in September. He said the United States is reviewing the idea, and somewhat earlier Ukraine and Kazakhstan accepted it as a rational suggestion. But agricultural experts are not too optimistic about the idea to control the production and trade in grain.
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The 5 Ws Of Corn Production
Madison WI (SPX) Sep 05, 2007 - As of late, many uncertainties have been sprouting up in corn production. Researchers and producers have been wondering if precision agricultural technologies can improve crop yield and quality or reduce their variability. Farmers have been asking a number of questions from, which hybrid should I plant for best yield and quality, to does applying nitrogen fertilizer at a uniform rate produce a better crop outcome, and if not, what nitrogen fertilization strategy does produce a better crop in yield and quality
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Iraq oil law (still) coming soon
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sept. 4, 2007 - The question is simple on the third and final day of a major Iraqi energy conference where hundreds of hungry oil men and women broke bread with Iraq's industry chiefs, politicians and technocrats: When will Baghdad set the ground rules for the international oil community's long-awaited venture into the largest oil prize on Earth?
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Thousands without power as California sizzles
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 4, 2007 - Around 40,000 homes across California were without power Tuesday as searing temperatures roasted the region and drained the electricity grid, authorities said.
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Iowa State Researcher Studies The Sustainability Of The Bioeconomy
Ames IO (SPX) Sep 04, 2007 - This spring farmers responded to the ethanol industry's demand for grain by increasing their corn acreage by 19 percent over last year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. What if that happens again next year? What if farmers decide against crop rotations and plant corn on the same fields, year after year? Or, what if farmers begin growing biomass crops such as switchgrass for the production of ethanol from plant fiber?
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More Mideast-China investment ‘hampered by culture’
Dubai (AFP) Sept 3, 2007 - Greater investment between the Middle East and China is being hampered by a lack of understanding between the two cultures, a conference in the United Arab Emirates heard on Monday.
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Oil prices higher amid Hurricane Felix
London (AFP) Sept 3, 2007 - World oil prices climbed on Monday as traders worried that Hurricane Felix might yet force the closure of vital oil rigs in offshore Mexico.