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• Sunlight and Water to Hydrogen and Electricity

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Chemist Daniel Nocera of MIT made news by trying to mimic photosynthesis, and improve on it. The idea seems simple: split water into hydrogen and oxygen with sunlight, and then recombine them which releases the energy in a fuel cell when the power is needed.  The goal is to do both these things cheaply.  Nocera has ...
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• Smarter than smart-grid?

  
  Sun Valley Idaho Blog; SunValleyOnline.com — Authority: 127
  Suddenly, we are under a push to switch over to “smart-grid” power metering. On the surface, this technology holds vast potential: It could inspire many of us to conserve precious energy; and some Idaho communitees are already doing this .  However, we would be to wise to ensure that these smart systems are ...
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• New ‘World Energy Outlook’: Realistic or fudged?

  
  Greenbang — Authority: 563
  The International Energy Agency (IEA) usually garners a lot of attention when it releases its annual “World Energy Outlook,” but today’s publication follows some much less-welcome attention: news that a whistleblower says the agency has regularly fudged figures to make global oil reserves look better … and ...
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• Energy security through transparency

  
  Community.GJSentinel.com — Authority: 438
  Our senators should back the bipartisan Energy Security Through Transparency Act.Gas prices have jumped about 23 cents since the beginning of October, reaching a high for the year last Friday. Energy traders are pointing a finger at rising violence in Nigeria’s oil region, where militants have warned oil companies ...
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• Why Should Jews Have Their Own Response to the Energy Challenge?

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  Earlier in the week, Jonathan Axelrad, Co-Chair of this past weekend’s  Jewish Response to the Energy Challenge (J-REC) conference held in San Francisco and broadcasted through out the United States and Israel, was asked if a “Jewish response to energy” wasn’t as superfluous as the Korean response to ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  4 days ago

• Engaging Central Asia: the EU-Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) axis

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 501
  Author: Andy Yee, University of London On 1 August 2009, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the new NATO secretary general, took office. Surrounding this are recent debates over how NATO should engage with the recently expanded network of security actors. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is mentioned on several ...
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• India-EU free trade agreement by 2010, expects Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  By Naveen KapoorNew Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh here today said that India and European Union have set one-year deadline to conclude a free trade agreement, at a joint press conference attended by the Swedish Prime Minister and European President at the Hyderabad House. Addressing media after ...
  5 days ago

• Barbara Boxer Gives Republicans the Shaft, Tosses Senate Committee Rules Out the Window

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 556
  Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) appeared on Fox News Channel this morning (see video above) to discuss the unprecedented actions taken by Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) this morning. According to Inhofe, ranking member of the committee, Senator Boxer reported out S. 1733, ...
  6 days ago

• Desertec Is Taking Shape With 12 Companies Joining Consortium

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 477
  A $400 billon (£240 billion) plan to provide Europe with solar power from the Sahara desert moved a step closer to reality with the formation of a consortium of 12 companies to carry out the work. Known as the Desertec Industrial Initiative (DDI), the German-led consortium consists of some of country’s biggest ...
  1 week ago

• Reaction to Sarah vs.Clueless Joe Biden on energy

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 584
  Heres some reaction from around the Web to   Biden v Palin: The Rematch : Left Coast Rebel : "I just caught Biden earlier today talking down to Sarah Palin and her drill baby now mantra. In typical effete, ruling-class snob-liberal M.O., he scoffed at such a simple notion of energy independence." ...
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• Recent Notes for DOD from the Climate Change Battle Ground

  
  The DOD Energy Blog — Authority: 416
  Simplicity is a wonderful thing, sometimes the most wonderful thing. When you have it, you understand more quickly, for instance, how to operate a new gadget, or what course of action is the right one in a moral/ethical/legal debate. When all you have is complexity, your next move, should you make one at all, is a ...
  1 week ago

• Assembling a Nuclear Boom

  
  New Energy and Fuel — Authority: 421
  Rod Adams at Atomic Insights Blog is a not to be missed weekly stop for this writer.  Mr. Adams is located close to the regulatory action, conferences and has the experience and background to make sense of it all with his gift of communicating to the informed masses – that’s us.  He recently made ammo with the ...
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• The Energy Security Through Transparency Act of 2009 (S. 1700)…A Bad Bill

  
  Corporate Compliance Insights — Authority: 422
  By Michael Koehler, CCI Featured FCPA ColumnistThe Energy Security Through Transparency Act of 2009 (S. 1700), while however noble its intended purpose, is akin to “swatting a fly with a bazooka.” (This is only a summary of the article. Click on the headline to view the entire article at Corporate Compliance ...
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• NATO PA Rose-Roth seminar in Lviv, Ukraine

  
  PfP Information Management System (PIMS) - PIMS — Authority: 116
  Lviv hosted on October 13-16 2009 a seminar of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly organized as part of the Rose-Roth Initiative. The 72nd Rose-Roth Seminar launched its Three-Day Work in Lviv under the Chairmanship of H.Ormel, NATO Parliamentary Assembly Vice-President. The seminar, jointly organised with the ...
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• DESERTEC $555 Billion Renewable Energy Project Moving Forward

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  The huge project to build a $555 billion renewable energy “ belt ” in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, funded largely by German companies, moved another step forward a few days ago. The articles of association for the DESERTEC Industrial Initiative (DII) were signed by the joint venture group of ...
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• Paul Rosenberg Interviews Vice Admiral Dennis McGinn on Global Warming and National Security

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 545
  Vice Admiral McGinn makes some really good points (emphasis mine): Well, I would say that one thing-and I addressed this briefly in my testimony-and that has to do with the role of the US as a global leader. I think we’ve got to get over this notion that we can’t do anything related to climate change ...
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• Trade pact, climate change, terror to top India-EU summit

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  New Delhi, Nov 2 (IANS) India and the 27-nation European Union will Friday hold their 10th summit that is expected to give a much-needed impetus to a proposed trade pact and expand cooperation in areas ranging from counter-terrorism and the global financial crisis to energy security and climate change.The daylong ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• African Development Bank Group Approve €153m Loan to the Government of Botswana

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has approved a loan of €153 million to the Government of Botswana, to finance specific components of the Morupule B power station and associated transmission infrastructure, a release said. The project involves the construction of a 600-MW (4 x 150 ...
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