Monday, October 18th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Tackling global loss of wildlife is as big a challenge as addressing climate change, conservation experts have warned as an international meeting gets under way aimed at stopping species and habitats vanishing across the world. Governments are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, hoping to agree on 20 targets to conserve nature and tackle problems including
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
SLD – Competition for the Arctic has been growing intense since 2007. The Arctic neighboring states have proclaimed or renewed their national strategies on the Arctic. In the short-, mid- and long-term perspective, the question of who is entitled to the Arctic region and its vast store of resources remains unanswered in 2010. Read More
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
7th SPACE – The number of turbines now production in mean that operators are looking at reducing O&M costs to see significant gains in profitability. With no fuel costs, a wind farm is totally dependent on smart use of operational expenditure (OPEX) to be profitable. In less than five years, a wind turbine will likely
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
ARAB NETWORK – An EGP 2.7 billion contract will be signed by the end of 2010 for buying needed turbines for the 200 megawatts wind farm in Gabal el-Zeit, Egyptian Electricity Minister Hassan Younis said. Germany’s KfW Bank and the European Investment Bank will contribute to the project. The government seeks to depend on renewable energy in producing
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
PRAVDA – Extreme weather conditions are predicted on a global scale as experts come to terms with the latest details emerging from the La Niña event, climate-changing ocean temperature alterations which follow El Niño and affect vast swathes of our planet on an intercontinental scale. The World Meteorological Organization, the UN’s weather agency, warned yesterday that the
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
PRAGUE POST – Biomass takes organic material, primarily plant matter, and converts it through incineration at plants to energy for heating and electricity, and is considered a renewable energy source. It most often includes forest waste (dead trees or branches), woodchips and plants grown for that purpose like corn, sorghum and sugarcane. Read More
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – It is a victory for the United Kingdom. The European Commission suggested the idea of a moratorium on oil drilling in deep waters in the EU, but that was not supported. The Vice-President of the Commission, the British Catherine Ashton (also chief diplomat of the EU), which the country operates numerous oil rigs
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
TMC – DNV, a provider of renewable energy services for the wind energy, carbon capture, storage, wave and tidal energy sectors, recently acquired Behnke, Erdman & Whitaker Engineering, Inc., (BEW Engineering) in its efforts for continuous growth in Clean and Renewable energies. Read More
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
GCN – Logistics is an unsexy but vital component of any successful military operation. During the past two decades, computer-based tracking technologies have emerged to help commanders plan and track supply shipments. The military services have developed many different systems that operate separately, and that has created headaches for warfighters who need to locate and
Saturday, October 16th, 2010
CHINA DAILY – Bulgaria and Russia agreed here Friday to speed up the construction of the South Stream gas pipeline. This was announced after Russian energy company chief executive officer Alexei Miller met Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov and Economy Minister Traicho Traikov. Both sides told reporters separately that significant progress on the South Stream
