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April 29, 2006
How to shop for a fuel-efficient car
CNN International - USA
... If you do, you should make that choice for reasons other than saving money. A hybrid car or SUV will burn considerably less fuel than a non-hybrid version. ...
Radical activists shaped eco-housing industry, says study
Environmental Data Interactive - UK
... One example he looked at was the Hockerton housing project in Nottinghamshire, a collection of six low-energy, earth-sheltered, passive solar homes, which ...
Military Unveils Tough All-Terrain Robot
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA
... With electric motors set in the vehicles' six wheels and powered by a hybrid system that uses a turbo diesel generator, the Crusher can travel almost 26 mph. ...
Small school shows off big brains
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... For more information see www.research.uiuc.edu/iso/index.asp. ... Urbana, was making an artificial aquifer, that is to say a model of an underground water deposit. ...
The EcoVillage at Ithaca
Turn Left - Ithaca,NY,USA
... study, and looked at ecological footprint issue, while other Cornell students worked on designing a passive solar bus shelter with a living roof that currently ...
Security and Defense: Ready... aim... intercept!
Jerusalem Post - Israel
... The Jerusalem Post was allowed rare access to the missile defense system's command center, Citron Tree, located in a fortified underground bunker manned with ...
Preparations are being made for hurricane season
U.S. Naval Academy Trident - Annapolis,MD,USA
... reports from last year's deadly hurricane season which was a record breaking season even ... be prepared without power and indoors in case of further bad weather. ...
Woman found dead after power shut off
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... Buggs' father told the investigator the family had been running a 7-horsepower gasoline generator in the basement while he disputed the bill. ...
Test Blast In Nevada: A Nuclear Rehearsal
ZNet - Woods Hole,MA,USA
... in selecting the smallest proper nuclear yield necessary to destroy underground facilities while ... nitrate and fuel oil atop a buried limestone tunnel on the ...
Outraged senators want $28 million to repair Capitol tunnels
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... $28 million in federal funds to repair crumbling underground utility tunnels. ... $40 million in FY2006 emergency supplemental appropriations for tunnel repairs. ...
April 28, 2006
Threat from old mines is hard to detect
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... We do know they did drift (tunnel) mining in the general area and adjacent ... Only two mines in the database are underground mines, said Rivas, a principal planner ...
Pinch at pump becomes a pain
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... Bush called higher gas prices "a hidden tax on the working people ... have to not turn people away, because it's so essential," said Executive Director Greg Bunker. ...
City that waits for its volcano to erupt
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
... Moreover, the next eruption will come from a network of fissures stretching outwards from the volcano's cone. These extend beneath Goma itself. ...
GM, DaimlerChrysler, BMW Premiere Unprecedented Hybrid Technology
Autochannel - USA
... Currently full hybrid systems are under development for front- and rear-wheel-drive passenger cars, and light-duty truck and SUV applications. ...
Thursday, April 27th 2006
Virgin Islands Daily News - U.S. Virgin Islands
... It was the first time shrimp were produced on the island using "environmentally friendly" aquaponics, a type of aquaculture system.
LLF warm-white luminaire has efficacy of 73 lm/W
LEDs Magazine - Bristol,Avon,UK
... In recent testing conducted at CSA International's Lighting Laboratory in Atlanta, LLF ... LLF's proprietary white light technology allows for a wide range of
Scotland's hidden treasures
ic Scotland.co.uk - Scotland,UK
... With some of its hidden treasures on show for the first time, it is ... Underground storage vaults, where 200 ,000 objects lay gathering dust for decades, have been ...
Underground Buzz
Forbes - USA
On a breezy afternoon, hidden in the mountains behind the peak on Hong Kong ... per year, 200-odd collectors keep their wine buried 20 yards underground within the ...
Risks and quirks of a life underground
The Mercury - Tasmania,Australia
... Mr Pringle, 61, who now runs a Zeehan supermarket, spent almost 30 years underground in conditions which were often hot and humid. ...
Prominent Israeli nuclear scientist dead
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... He attended an officer`s course in the underground, was the deputy commander of ... He joined what was then the top secret Atomic Energy Committee and commanded a ...
April 27, 2006
Communication System is suited for underground mines.
Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA
April 26, 2006 - Modular and scalable SIAMnet Communication System uses cable modem and coaxial cable for voice and data communications in underground mines. ...
A New Take on Homebuilding - An Underground Home(Book)
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA... guide, Earth-Sheltered Houses brings earth-sheltered construction completely up to date for those who want to build their own underground home at moderate cost
Utility-Scale Wind Turbine for Mass. Maritime Academy
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
... lifetime, the turbine will produce more than $7 million worth of electricity for the ... plans to invest in solar power on campus as well as geothermal energy and ...
Plugging into 'Cow Power'
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... Instead of storing waste manure in outdoor pools, the waste is funneled into an underground concrete tank, called a "digester," that is kept at 100 degrees ...
A kilometre deep in a 'dead end'
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... From there, they board "troop carriers" that drive along the decline or underground tunnel to various working points along its length and down to depths of one ...
Organic greenhouse grower sets Oppenheimer apart
FreshPlaza - Netherlands
... benefit: the lycopene content in these organic Beefsteak tomatoes nearly triples that of regular hydroponic tomatoes. Nutrient content research is currently ...
Underground lines delay downtown roadwork
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... corner. "Everyone tries their best to find those (underground) lines, but occasionally they miss some," Huning said. "Something ...
April 26, 2006
Gas Prices Continue To Rise
WLBZ-TV - Bangor,ME,USA
... about 60 dollars for the round trip, but she's not ready to give up her SUV yet ... it was going up so much and so fast, I might have gone with a hybrid," said Pat
Abandoned Mines, Tunnels Common in California
KXTV - Sacramento,CA,USA
... at least three incidents in Northern California related to abandoned underground mine workings creating safety hazards. In June 1999, a mine tunnel gave way ...
Jerusalem's volatile archaeology
BBC News - UK
... Deep underground they excavated beneath the massive foundation of medieval buildings and along ... In one part of the tunnel system, they uncovered a three-storey ...
Decorative Concrete Stains Made from Bio-Based Building Materials .
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... ECO ProCote™ may be used for commercial floors, tilt up concrete, garage floors, walkways, patio's, block walls, stucco, clay, rammed earth and more.
Keith Lyons: Chernobyl - A Thinly Wrapped Monster
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
... bomb. A Russian soldier who was used in chemical warfare experiments souvenired a large misshapen mushroom growing on the grass. ...
April 25, 2006
It's turf at the top for boss in Dales home row Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK ... But Yorkshire Dales officials insist they were right to refuse Mr Buffett permission because his earth house would be outside Hardraw settlement boundaries and ...
Report: Yucca repository could hold up to nine times more waste
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA LAS VEGAS -- The planned Yucca Mountain repository could hold up to nine times more nuclear waste if it were expanded and redesigned -- equal to about twice as ...
Short breaks-- Paris and its catacombs ic Teesside.co.uk - Middlesbrough,England,UK
... Although much of this underground world has been closed to the public since 1955, for security reasons, there are many secret routes to the subterranean city. ...
McAninch pushes earthmoving into the future Des Moines Business Record - Des Moines,IA,USA... business and one of Iowa's largest earthmoving and underground utility contractors ... Iowa State University last year to develop a mobile research laboratory to ...
Trench cave-in kills construction worker DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... for a house when the accident occurred about 11:20 am. Sheriff's Sgt. Pete Burkett said that as two men were working in the trench, one wall began to cave in ...
High alert sounded along Indo-Nepal border Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India MAHARAJGANJ (Uttar Pradesh): A state of high alert has been sounded along the 84 km-long Indo-Nepal border in the wake of the volatile situation in the
Microsoft's Mountain View Campus goes solar Construction and Maintenance News - Minsk,Belarus ... SunPower says that their solar panels offer up to 50% more power per square foot than conventional solar technology, guaranteeing Microsoft the maximum power ...
SAVING FOR A DRY DAY
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... in Florida have used the Floridan Aquifer like a huge underground water-storage ... Workers are drilling wells to explore the hidden voids, wrinkles and cracks in ...
April 24, 2006
Mine officials consider safe shelters
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... In all, 63 miners died in the Sonman incident, few of them from the explosion. ... shelters is that they might prompt miners to flee to underground refuge instead ...
Man enjoyed the mystery of top-secret work Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA By Robert Gold. What top secret government program are you working on now dad? You can tell your son. But the Danbury man wouldn't budge.
The Future is Green UMass study finds builders can be convinced to ...Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... He said the number of "green" homes being built every year is increasing markedly, from 2,564 such homes built nationally in 2000 to 14,589 in 2004, according ...
Conserve and save
ABC12.com - Flint,MI,USA
... National Association of Homebuilders. Last year the green homes industry represented just 2 percent of new housing starts. By 2010 that ...
Gas-tax money sits as leaks continue Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA ... a lot of progress has been made since the problem of leaking underground storage tanks ... with prompting Congress to pass a 1984 law to address the hidden perils. ...
You want good design? Then forget about trends Independent - London,England,UK ... other so that the leftovers from each course of a meal could be hidden even while ... True, the map he did for the New York underground system in 1972 was scrapped ...
Growing young horticulturists in the open air The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... on through cold and rain to frame "The Learning and Growing Garden Project," a ... like building a little house in a couple of days, without the roof," said parent ...
April 23, 2006
Power of Sun Reaching Turning Point KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... At a house, mixed in with the garden or built into the design of the roof, solar panels feed not into batteries, but directly into the power grid. ...
Montana-Western installing money-saving heating system KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA ... campus. The project includes installing a boiler designed to burn the wood chips, and an underground facility to hold the fuel. ...
Avoid being dragged through the mill Financial Times - London,England,UK... power and wind turbines.". Ecology has funded log cabins, hydraulic pumping stations and earth-sheltered dwellings. "One of our ..
Mussolini's secret revealed to public
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada ... century villa of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has revealed hidden bunkers and ... entertained guests at the Rome residence, built the underground chambers to ...
Perfect Disaster Imagines What's Possible and Prepares for the ...
Channel Canada - Qualicum Beach,Canada With wild weather wreaking havoc across the globe in recent years, what have we learned to help predict and prepare for disaster? ...
Need to find cheap gas in Houston?
About - Cities & Towns - New York,NY,USA ... Frustrated with your gas guzzling SUV? Hop on over to About's Hybrid Cars site to find out more about these energy saving automobiles.
Iran Completes Secret Uranium Plant IsraPundit - Canada
... nuclear program, NewsMax has learned from intelligence sources that Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps is completing a secret, underground uranium enrichment .
Saving a ship for the future
TMCnet - USA ... a permanent mooring on London's Embankment, a few yards from Temple underground station ... library has been added to over the years and is available for research. ...
Old foes draw closer together
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... underground and deeper, to Earth's upper mantle 600 kilometres underground, Wu says. ... The American research ship Marcus Langseth will shoot gigantic air bubbles ...
Sink may get a natural filter
Gainesville Sun - Gainesville,FL,USA ... water from the hurricanes of nearly two years ago, which have hidden the sinkhole ... Once water flows into the sink it travels underground in a northwest direction ...
April 21, 2006
China's secret banks hold billions United Press International - USA BEIJING, April 20 (UPI) -- China's police have confiscated billions of dollars from underground banks and illegal foreign exchange shops.
Record-breaking heat grips state KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahomans sweltered through record-breaking hot weather today as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees in a region thirsty for rain. ...
Plug it in, Plug it in
AutoWeek - USA... Sage Marie says. DaimlerChrysler, however, is producing a small test fleet of Sprinter commercial vans with plug-in hybrid power.
Hybrid Cabs Take A Licking...But Their Meters Keep On Ticking Autochannel - USA
... It's nice to have an SUV that does ... about $5,000 a year," adds Allen Gotschberg, a Luxor driver who just rolled over 102,000 miles on his Escape Hybrid taxi ...
Sprouts: spring's secret weapon Anchorage Press - Anchorage,AK,USA... grapes. In the root cellar the carrots are gone, the cabbage is gone, the beets are gone. I miss the dark green leafy vegetables most.
Antarctica has vast underground rivers ABC Science Online - Australia... The research, reported today in the journal Nature, also means that water from the ... Iceland has underground lakes that fill quickly and flush out, says Canadian ...
Google in China: The Big Disconnect Gadsden Times (subscription) - Gadsden,AL,USA
... China; he set up Microsoft Research Asia, the company's research-and-development ... are three main fiber-optic pipelines in China, giant underground cables that ...
Evidence of pyramids unearthed in Bosnia Xinhua - China... Earlier research on the hill found that it has 45 -degree slopes pointing ... The three pyramid-shaped hills appear to be connected by an underground tunnel, which ...
April 20, 2006
Hybrid cars are so last century
CNN - USA
... In the earliest days of automobiles, all forms of power were equally "alternative." Steam power was the favored choice of driving enthusiasts in the late 1800s ...
Research Summary: Water Kit
abc7news.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Like batteries, flashlights, first-aid supplies and canned foods, the X-Pack is ... With over fifteen years of research, the scientists at HTI have developed the
Boy hurt on school trip, pulled from cave
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... Bowman said the cave was a well-known attraction years ago, but several wooden decks and a spring-house outside the cave entrance were in obvious disrepair .
Cleric denies curb on faith in China
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
... Cao disputed the existence of "underground", or secret, churches, but conceded that some Christians worship in private. "I ...
900 firearms in Upland home
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Ontario,CA,USA
... the walls, floors and secret panels leading to hidden spaces throughout the home, LA Impact agents said. Investigators also found an underground wine cellar ..
April 19, 2006
Moose stroganoff, muskrat stew
Minnesota Women's Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... made from wild game and canned ingredients (no refrigeration required); bread baked, sometimes daily, in wood stoves; and vegetables dug out of the root cellar ...
Green goes mainstream
CNNMoney.com - USA... Green homes use water-efficient bath and kitchen fixtures such as low-flush toilets, low -flow shower heads and recycled gray water. ...
Record-breaking Heat Grips Oklahoma KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahomans sweltered through record-breaking hot weather today as temperatures exceeded 100 degrees in a region thirsty for rain. ...
The hidden treasures and beauty of Rhodes Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK ... The interior looks like a cave carved inside a mountain, indentations in the walls ... Poporou sells tickets for the hammam, the old Turkish bath house in Rhodes. ...
Report indictates Iran enlarging nuke site NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India ... a nuclear watchdog group says. The pictures also appear to show an underground facility, CNN reports. Analysts for the US-based .
100 years after earthquake, we have lessons to learn
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA ... Orleans by at least 2,000. In neither case were local governments prepared to deal with the cataclysm's magnitude. In 1906 there was ...
The Fight Over the Water Beneath Black Mesa Environment News Service - USA ... the C-Aquifer plans were the result of years of secret negotiations conducted ... needed to guarantee against collapse or contamination of the underground reservoir ...
April 18, 2006
Film yarns boost tourist venture
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... In three months Stansborough produced more than 1000 metres of fabric to make the cloaks for the central characters, including the Hobbits. ...
The city that fell to earth
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... This cataclysm in monochrome is a curious juxtaposition in the gleaming confines of SFMoMA's swish new home, among the bright stippled Roy Liechtensteins, Andy ...
G. Chambers Williams III: The 'new face of Dodge'
San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA
... The two-mode hybrid system, which also will be used in the Chevrolet Tahoe full-size SUV next year, will let the Durango achieve up to 25 percent better fuel ...
Oil Rises to $70 a Barrel in New York on Iran Supply Concern
Bloomberg - USA
... Seymour Hersh that the US may use air strikes and tactical nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's suspected atomic weapons program, including underground facilities ...
Sunshine and highs in the 90s for most of Texas
KRIS-TV - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
... another day of sunshine and temperatures in the 90s on Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Sunday brought another round of record-breaking heat. ...
—RECORD-BREAKING HEAT IN APRIL?
The State - Columbia,SC,USA
Since 1887, when the National Weather Service started writing these things down, the previous high for that date had been 90 degrees, in 1972. ...
Pumped up: Rising gas prices hurt businesses
Milwaukee Business Journal - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The days are numbered for real estate agent Rob Horton's SUV Jeep Grand Cherokee -- with its gas-guzzling V-8 engine and 20-gallon ... Gasoline powered or hybrid? ...
April 17, 2006
Every Little Bit Counts
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA ... It was a natural part of life. Now in San Luis Obispo, she designs "green" homes, restaurants, apartments, even a mosque, to use passive solar. ...
New Energy Secretary Tours Yucca Mountain KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
The new energy secretary is touring Yucca Mountain today. It's Samuel Bodman's first visit to the nation's proposed nuclear waste ...
Iran readies plans to deter possible US attack- Experts
Aljazeera.com - London,UK
... reinforced its Natanz underground uranium enrichment plant, new satellite imagery showed. A US think tank described the revelations as hidden preparations by ...
THE 1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA ... Vivid , firsthand descriptions of the earthquake's effect in Monterey survive in the form of letters written within days of the cataclysm and sent East to ...
Town residents steamed over barrel burning laws Onalaska Life - Onalaska,WI,USA ... Paudler said the board might research the effects and facts of barrel burning ... Such materials include plastic, furniture, appliances, batteries and painted wood ...
Park potty clogged again
Bainbridge Island Review - Bainbridge,WA,USA ... It featured showers, storage space, natural lighting, a roof deck level with the tennis courts and "earth sheltered" walls
A walk through a world of darkness, noise, coal dust San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA ... Six minutes later, we are 500 feet underground and the mine opening looks like a postage ... In the back of my mind is the January explosion at the Sago mine in .
Request to bury power lines on farm denied Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA ... Hidden in the overgrowth was a tractor Jeremy Smalley first thought was some an ... a tourist mecca by putting 2 percent of its power lines underground each year ...
Pyramid hidden under Bosnian hill? Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... began digging for what they hope is an ancient pyramid hidden beneath a ... mine being sent into a tunnel believed to be part of an underground network connecting ...
April 15, 2006
Record-breaking heat arrives
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA The high for Thursday was 93, the National Weather Service reported. ... It affects the Pacific Ocean and certain weather patterns. ...
Europe's Chastisement? -- How the Abandonment of Christianity May ...
Agape Press - Tupelo,MS,USA
... Western European countries.". What could possibly cause such a cataclysm? Another world war? A nuclear confrontation? The devastation ...
The joy of gardening deepens joy of living Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA ... My mind twirls with possibilities as I imagine a new solarium enclosing the rooftop area off the master bedroom; I can smell the coffee perking and see us ...
What turned well water black?
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... from an underground pool of pollution in the region's karst topography — an area pockmarked with sinkholes, underground channels and other hidden features. ...
28th Storm Added To Record-Breaking 2005 Hurricane Season
NBC6.net - Miami,FL,USA
Upon further review of months-old weather records, the National Hurricane Center on Wednesday added a 28th storm to the season, which officially ended Nov.
Homestake Transfers Mine To South Dakota KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA ... plus all of the underground mine ... Back in February, research teams from around the world gathered in Lead to pitch more than 70 experiments that could be done ...
America's cutting edge: Innovation creates industry, opportunity
TMCnet - USA... The Energy Department's Office of Science is another major source of research funding, and its programs have led to lithium batteries and new types of ...
Nanogenerators Allow Self-Powered Nanoscale Devices Newswise (press release) - USA ... could be beneficial to soldiers in the field, who now depend on batteries to power ... The next step in the research will be to maximize the power produced by an ...
St. Petersburg Technology Company Delivers Capability to Build ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
PAT's patent-pending composite technology combines fiber-reinforced polyurethane ... and more energy-efficient than either conventional cement block or ..
REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Easy green: Riverbluff model aims for ... The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... high-efficiency heat pump, and exterior decking of composite lumber (made ... attractive stained concrete floor in the basement, and cement-fiber exterior paneling ...
REAL ESTATE Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA ... The US market for composite decking, made of plastic and wood, reached $900 ... Another composites category is fiber cement siding made from sand, cement and wood ...
Wild weather Pasadena Weekly - Pasadena,CA,USA By Carl Kozlowski. Over the past decade, the world has seen the most powerful El Niño ever recorded, as well as the most devastating ...
High alert as bird flu hits Scotland
Buchan Observer - Scotland, UK
STAFF at the Loch Of Strathbeg RSPB reserve have been put on high alert after it was confirmed that Bird Flu had reached Scotland.
Uganda on high alert in case of bird flue outbreak Xinhua - China
KAMPALA, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Uganda is on high alert and ready to counter any outbreak of avian influenza A (H5N1), popularly known as bird flu, a senior ...
Wild Weather KAKE - Wichita,KS,USA
Wild Weather In Saline CountyAnother round of violent spring weather swept across much of Kansas yesterday with hail, high winds and numerous reports of ...
April 13, 2006
Range News Home sweet hut: 'Mud woman' hopes poor can benefit Range News, AZ - ... "I'm the mud woman," she says with a smile about the rammed earth or "mud" huts she and a group of volunteers are building throughout the project. ...
Iran ups ante with claim of nuclear milestone
Seattle Times - United States
... administration has drawn up plans for a military strike that could include the use of nuclear "bunker-busting" bombs to destroy Iranian underground facilities. ...
Professor's missionary work turns into science project
Princeton Daily Clarion - Princeton,IN,USA ... who has been at USI for four years, was awarded a faculty creative research grant to work on a method to use solar power to pump water from underground. ...
The Monolithic Dome house that the Monks have dreamed of for more ...
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States PARRISH - The Monolithic Dome house that the Monks have dreamed of for more than three years came a lot closer to reality Monday. ...
Third-gen Prius to flirt with 100 mpg? Autoblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA ... The very nice lady filling her SUV was putting in gas before I even pulled ... The battery pack in my hybrid weighs only about 130 pounds, if I recall correctly. ...
When You Need Emergency Portable Lighting
IT Management - Darien,CT,USA
... After doing some research, I opted for a Surefire U2 Ultra and purchased it off ... to 100 lumens that can be output for up to an hour depending on the batteries. ...
ALTERNATIVE POWER: Fuel cell generation
Detroit Free Press - United States
... to produce non-hydrogen-reliant portable fuel cells to replace batteries soldiers use in ... designed to support the advancement of fuel cell research are helping ...
Devon residents take part in ground-breaking battery recycling ... 24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire ,UK ... Research by WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) found that nine out of 10 people would recycle their batteries if they had a kerbside collection ...
A Maui-based company harnesses ambient radiation as a source of ...
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA ... since the adult tortoises have the habit of burrowing underground, the best ... the Hawaii Technology Development Venture and the Office of Naval Research to look ...
No takers found for drill that bored Yucca Mountain test tunnel
San Diego Union Tribune - United States ... So it is with the machine that dug the five-mile exploratory tunnel in Yucca Mountain, a gigantic $13 million drill bit that sits at the site unused – and ...
It's no go for the eco-home
Times 24 - Herts,UK
The earth-sheltered design for Friday Grove, between Brookmans Park and Potters Bar, was turned down by councillors despite officers' recommendations. ...
Composite Rebar Speeds Tunneling Operations
High Performance Composites - USA... Walls for the underground stations are 1.2m/3.9 ft thick, and are ... Andre Weber, Schöck's director for research and development for FRP, explains that while ...
April 11, 2006
'Builders show proves popular to local residents
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
... Other trends one might see at future exhibitions include building options for "green homes" combining energy efficiency with environmentally sustainable ...
Farm Fresh Perspectives: Time to grow your own
Rock River Times - Rockford,IL,USA... grew at least some of their food, and they planned for cold winter months by preserving foods through canning, drying, freezing and storage in root cellars. ...
Sheltered from the storm?
News Courier - Athens,AL,USA
... Safe rooms vary in cost but one constructed in a garage can run from $2,500-$3,500; an underground facility would cost a minimum of $8,000, he said. ...
Hersh: US mulls nuclear option for Iran
CNN - USA... If you're giving the White House a series of options, and the option is to get rid of an underground facility -- the facility I'm talking about is Natanz, 75 ...
And the oldest house is . . .
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... The later date was supported, in part, by reader David Rockwood, whose house in Bee Cave was started in the 1860s. The stone part
Remedy found on floor of forest
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA... The plants have wide, onion-scented leaves growing from the white cylindrical bulb hidden underground. Both the leaves and the bulbs are edible. ...
Slovenia: The Green Secret
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
... To begin a brief exploration of the "green secret," let us make a "flyover ... During the summer the water drains into the underground passages of the karst, and ...
US Bomb Test to Produce 'Huge Mushroom Cloud'
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA... knowledge, this will be the largest open-air chemical explosion that we ... a massive conventional bomb would perform against fortified underground targets - just
April 9, 2006
MSHA Issues Warning to Kids to 'Stay Out-Stay Alive'; Dozens ... U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Underground abandoned mines pose a number of hazards to the casual explorer, including hidden shafts that drop hundreds of feet down, covered by decayed and ...
Hidden in a Moscow Suburb, Stalin's Bunker Gets New Lease of Life American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA... However, some Internet research revealed that the company which owns the land (NIC Izmailovo) has also developed bars, saunas, a solarium, a billiard room, a ...
Patagonia's bathing beauties
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Its thermal pools -- two housed in a solarium lodge and another al fresco -- attract visitors with chronic illnesses or undergoing physiotherapy. ...
DOE Announces $52.5 Million for Basic Hydrogen Research
NewsBlaze - Folsom,CA,USA
... batteries to expand the all-electric, zero-emission range and fuel economy of these vehicles. The Energy Department report (PDF, 178 pages) on basic research
April 8, 2006
Green belt country house rejected The Brookmans Park Newsletter - UK Welwyn Hatfield Council has, for the second time in two years, refused permission for a huge ecologically-friendly earth-sheltered house at Friday Grove, also ...
Futuristic existence for cyclone-prone countries
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
Dome-shaped houses constructed to survive extreme weathers like cyclones will sprout across Australia within five years, experts predict.
NAHB President: Production Home Builders Ready To Build Green BuildingOnline - Dana Point,CA,USA ... exciting time for the building industry," said Pressly, a home builder and developer from Statesville, NC "Builders say more customers want green homes, and we ...
One woman's sinkhole disaster could be a harbinger of things to ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... The drainage ditch, which was completely underground on her property, handled none of ... Coe contacted her title company and asked them to research a historical
High-level nuclear waste may pass through Ely by 2010
Ely Daily Times - Ely,NV,USA
... Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the proposed Yucca Mountain underground storage facility ... The US Public Interest Research Group, a national office that lobbies ...
Drivers fill up to beat $3-a-gallon gasoline
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... long-term view. Honbow is shopping for a hybrid SUV that would undoubtedly cut down on her $30-a-week gas expense. But as she glanced ...
Wildly flowed the Red
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat - Sherman/Denison,TX,USA
... In 1814 he took the Enterprise on the first trip from Louisville to New Orleans and back, proving the efficacy of steam power in moving up stream against the ...
'Our $100 laptops will run on human power'
Rediff - India
... It has been part of funded research on "learning". ... in what we call DVD mode - the ratios are much worse and electric power or fully-charged batteries are a ...
S.Korean scientist uses virus to develop new lithium ion battery
TMCnet - USA
... Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)SEOUL, April 7 Asia in Focus - A research team led ... that retained by carbon electrodes used in regular lithium ion batteries, the team ...
REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Rock on: See the East in Keswick
The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... sliding shoji screen doors relieve what would in fact resemble a cave because of ... These are the kinds of personal, unusual touches that make the house unique. ...
Mind the culture map
Danmark.dk - Denmark
... such as ramparts and ruins remain visible, most of the registered sites - graves, marketplaces and sacrificial sites from Viking days - lie hidden underground. ...
HarperCollins Alert: 100th Anniversary of the San Francisco ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... reverberated last December, when the world woke up the day after Christmas to the devastation of the tsunami caused by an undersea earthquake near Indonesia. ...
Air Force seeks a bomb with less bang
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... The result is an explosion that is powerful and lethal, but relatively well ... protect stockpiles of nuclear or chemical weapons by burying them deep underground. ...
April 6, 2006
Cave Creations Beckon to ASM Research Fellow
Connect2 OWU - Delaware,OH,USA ... are not the only housemates coexisting in those underground natural geological ... study of these microbiological marvels that picqued the research interests of ...
County makes the cut - Tuscarawas is state finalist for FutureGen New Philadelphia Times Reporter - New Philadelphia,OH,USA... produce hydrogen for use as a fuel source and store carbon dioxide in deep, underground saline formations. FutureGen will function as a research laboratory for .
Feds on High Alert for Bird Flu
Farm Futures - Carol Stream,IL,USA
Monday US Ag Secretary Mike Johanns and Ron DeHaven, administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Service, both emphasized the threat of H5N1 "bird flu ...
Report: Saudi Arabia May Be Hiding a Secret Nuclear Program
Israel Hasbara Committee (subscription) - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... 2005 secretly visited the clandestine program at Al-Sulaiyil, an underground city south of ... from seeking to fight against or match Israel's secret deterrent. ...
Extensive Underground Defense Works Discovered in Sujiatun Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA ... have no idea of this place. This shows that this underground defense work is a top secret. "We interviewed several retired workers.
Angry beekeepers create buzz outside Parliament
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand... The protest was peaceful, although one beekeeper remarked that if it had not been he would have brought some bees "and I'd like to ... "Further decline will result
In New Jersey, bees need to be busier The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA
... Destructive pests, such as the tracheal and Varro mites, have caused a decline in bee populations in recent decades, causing ... Everybody was losing so many bees. ...
April 5, 2006
Chrysler puts hybrid technology through real-world tests
Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
Up to 40 Dodge Sprinter Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) will be placed in operation with customers in California , Kansas City and New York among other ...
US mine explosion survivor says he's mystified by his own survival
CBC News - Canada
... 2 explosion. ... "It's love, really.". McCloy's memories of the 41 hours underground are "not much really," just fragmented images he would rather forget. ...
April 3, 2006
Harbour's futuristic design plan
BBC News - UK
A £40m futuristic harbour with architecture inspired by an ancient rock formation is set to be built in Portree on Skye. Called ...
Hilo remembers 1946 Tsunami
KPUA - HI,USA
... _ A powerful tsunami barreled into Hawaii 60 years ago Saturday killing 159 people throughout the islands. Caused by an early morning earthquake near Alaska ..
Biologists estimate the value of services provided by insects
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... services is important because evidence points to a steady decline in beneficial ... Native pollinators--almost exclusively bees--seem to be responsible for over $3 ...
New Eclipse Powered System Is Powered Mobile Storage Made Easy
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... Should a power outage occur, a backup-power option automatically switches to batteries. ... "To do so, we conducted extensive market research that included ...
April 2, 2006
'Underground Facilities Thwart Americas Probing Eyes
The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) - Washington,DC,USA
... NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the German government's Aerospace Research Center, has made some headway in the detection of underground facilities from ...
Pentagon plans record-breaking explosion in Nevada desert Guardian Unlimited - UK
... controlled conventional explosion in military history, experts said, and is designed to test the impact of bunker-busting bombs aimed at underground targets. ...
Kingdom Denies Nuke Report
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
... The magazine also said satellite images prove that Saudi Arabia has set up in Al-Sulaiyyel, south of Riyadh, a secret underground city and dozens of ...
A fig tree grows in Mile End
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... important, this house had what each of their five rented apartments on the Plateau had lacked: a basement. Make that an earth-floor cave, spacious, relatively ...
Research helps curb plant spam Contra Costa Times - CA,USA... retailer. Plants that grow from branches that can root or from underground may become invasive under favorable conditions. Examples ..
Cabin Fever: Effort heats up to save log house Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
... But hidden in its walls is a secret: rough-hewn logs from which its builders ... that hints the house may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad, Pieper said .
''Long-Lasting Power -Researchers breathe fresh air into fuel ... Fuel Cell Works - USA
... for electronic devices, such as laptops, because they last much longer than batteries. ... still face obstacles, which is where the U. of I. research comes into ...
New study: Full-size SUVs consume less energy over lifetime than ...Autoblog - Santa Monica,CA,USA The results of a new study conducted by CNW Marketing Research Inc ... resources in terms of the assembly (and eventual disposal) of things like batteries and motors ...
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