High in Sodium: Highly Charged Tungsten Ions May Diagnose Fusion Energy Reactors
PhysOrg Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:41 PM PDT
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as health-food manufacturers work on developing the best possible sodium substitutes for low-salt diets, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have acquired new knowledge on a promising sodium alternative of their own. Sodium-like tungsten ions could pepper -- and conveniently monitor -- the hot plasma soup inside fusion energy devices, potential ... |
Caltrans going solar
Bear Valley News Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:40 PM PDT
On August 25, 2009 Caltrans announced its plan to install $20million in new solar energy systems at 70 of its facilities throughout the state, providing California taxpayers an estimated $52.5 million in avoided energy costs over 25 years. In 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Assembly Bill 32, California’s landmark bill that established a first-in-the-world program to reduce greenhouse ... |
Smitherman ponders run for Toronto mayor
CBC Toronto Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:39 PM PDT
Ontario Energy Minister George Smitherman has sent his clearest signal so far that he's interested in running for Toronto's top job in next year's election. |
US stocks climb on oil, gold hikes
EARTHtimes.org Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:38 PM PDT
New York - Major Wall Street indices gained Tuesday as price increases for oil and metals including gold fuelled a rally in commodity and energy shares. The dollar hit a 2009 low against the euro, helping the commodity price hikes. The US currency dr... |
Chinese back out of Verenex deal
Newsday Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:38 PM PDT
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) â€" China 's CNPC International Ltd. is pulling out of a $499 million Canadian ($462 million) deal to buy Verenex Energy Inc. The deal has been stymied for months by the apparent desire of Libya 's state-owned oil company to snap up the Calgary -based explorer at a lower price. Verenex said Tuesday that it has been unable to get the necessary approval from Libyan authorities ... |
Gasoline price falls for fourth week
Reuters via Yahoo! News Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:37 PM PDT
Prices at the pump eased for U.S. drivers for the fourth week in a row amid lower crude oil prices, the U.S. Energy Department said on Tuesday. |
Garbage Squeeze
Hartford Advocate Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:37 PM PDT
With the Hartford landfill closed, and trash still arriving at the rate of 800,000 tons annually at its trash-to-energy incinerator in Hartford, the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority was counting on building a new ash landfill in Franklin. The folks in Franklin had other ideas, and their... |
Nuclear energy revival
Financial Times Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:37 PM PDT
Nuclear energy â€" which currently provides about 15 per cent of the world’s electricty â€" has undergone a revival of interest in the past few years, driven by concerns about energy security and climate change. |
Current WTWO Conditions 2.0
WTWO Terre Haute Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:36 PM PDT
Congress is working to pass legislation to reduce greenhouse gasses and one utility company many of us use takes a stand on the issue. A Duke Energy spokesman was the guest speaker at the Downtown Rotary luncheon in Terre Haute Tuesday. |
Valero Energy to close part of Delaware refinery
Delaware County Times Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:35 PM PDT
SAN ANTONIO (AP) â€" Valero Energy Corp., the nation's largest independent refiner, said Tuesday it will close an unprofitable portion of a Delaware refinery, laying off at least 150 employees and 100 contract workers. |
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