DM May 2006

May 31, 2006

Caritas fears volcano eruption may slow earthquake response
CathNews - Australia
"The earthquake emergency response comes at the time Caritas Australia and its partners were already responding to the Mt Merapi volcano eruption. ...

Comoros volcano eruption settles down - for now
SABC News - Auckland Park,South Africa... from cracks in the crater killed 17 people in 1903, in the volcano's biggest death ... flee in fear of noxious fumes and lava flow, in its first eruption in over a ...

Opening the bank
BBC News - UK
... building remains relatively unknown, a slice of hidden London. That isn't entirely accidental. Because large parts of the bank are underground, storing bank ...

FBI fails to find Hoffa's remains
BBC News - UK
Agents tore down a barn and dug up several sites on Hidden Dreams Farm 32km (20 ... the Teamsters from 1957 to 1967, may have been the victim of an underground feud ...

UO's cramped steam tunnels no place to party
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA
... tunnels were built in the 1940s to replace telephone poles with underground phone lines ... points for fear someone might plant a bomb in a tunnel, Richard says

’Route 66: Highways allure brings in tourists
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA... Earlier this month, the Route 66 Association of Illinois unearthed the stairway to an underground pedestrian tunnel across from the St. .

Deep Secrets Of The City: The dark world below Portland's streets ...
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA... "They say the underground is the most haunted place in Oregon ... Still more wandering spirits died in the tunnel system and are still looking for their way out.". ...

Santa Fe couple recounts battle with plague
KRQE - Albuquerque,NM,USA
SANTA FE -- A Bernalillo County woman's death early last week from septicemic plague brought back bad memories for a Santa Fe couple who barely survived the ...

Listen to the river
Oakland Press - Pontiac,MI,USA... Plant a rain garden, which uses native fl owers and plants to soak up ... Install rain barrels to collect and store rainwater that runs off your home's roof ...

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY TO HOST SOLAR BUILDINGS RESEARCH NETWORK
News@Concordia - Montreal,Quebec,Canada... Technology Laboratory (LTE), Research Institute of Hydro-Québec, stated that “He is pleased to announce that Hydro-Québec will participate in the Solar ...

Silicon supply could limit solar energy boom
MarketWatch - USA... "The way to make new money in this business is to find new technology that won ... Despite solar's recent run, Reichenbach's firm has no investments in the sector. ...

May 30, 2006

Volcano eruption the next threat
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
ACTIVITY at Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano has tripled since Saturday's earthquake, and a large eruption is still possible, a volcanology official said ...

Cow Manure Could Be Cheap Alternative to Gas
ABC News - USA
... Eric Leonhardt, an engineering technology professor and director of the Vehicle Research Institute ... For 21 days, the manure sits in an underground tank and stews ...

Environmentally friendly structures popping up throughout the ...Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... The company today offers both quick fixes for homeowners seeking to reduce energy consumption, and designing and construction of green homes. ...

Record heat brings danger
KARE - Minneapolis,MN,USA
For many, Monday's record-breaking heat was not only uncomfortable but dangerous too. ... For some, like Kareem Kayyali, hot weather is met with a refusal to stay

Cincinnati Powers Up Two Buildings with Solar Electricity
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
... of the building is one of numerous green building features incorporated into this state of the art facility, which also features a geothermal variable-speed ...

May 29, 2006

Technology can help cut summer electricity bill
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA And technology is making it easier to conserve power in your home, from using more efficient appliances to installing solar panels on your roof.

WWU aims to harness power of cow manure
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA... to AAA. But Leonhardt is most pleased about the environmental benefits of the digester process that captures the methane gas. "If ...

Boston's Earthquake Problem
Boston Globe - United States
... United States, without the process of land making," says Nancy Seasholes, a research fellow at ... If only Boston's underground displayed such revolutionary design .

Weed control
Boston Globe - United States
... had been doing all these years: They had been underground, perfecting cannabis.". ... controlled for temperature, humidity, and light, the GW research team has ...

Bald eagles serve as ecological barometer
Detroit Free Press - United States... WHITE CLOUD -- Miners used to take canaries underground to warn of toxic gas ... Bowerman, who does eagle research around the world, visits Michigan each summer to ...

Walls of the World
Brownsville Herald - TX United States... The massive wall was made of a variety of materials, from limestone blocks to granite to fired brick. In some places, it was even rammed earth. ...

Underground railroad
Long Beach Press-Telegram - Long Beach,CA,USA... The cars lurch deeper into the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, one of the few underground operations where tourists are not only welcome, but wanted. ...

May 27, 2006

Undersea volcano eruption caught on tape
Brocktown News - NV, USA
TOKYO - An unmanned probe got within feet of a violent underwater eruption in the ... Lava streams down the volcano, which is 1,800 feet under water in the Mariana ...

Xantrex solar inverters to be installed in 450-unit housing ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
VANCOUVER, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Xantrex Technology Inc. (TSX:XTX - News) GT Series residential grid tie solar inverters have been selected by ...

ATS to lay off 60 solar-power workers
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... Spheral's flexible, thin-film solar technology is regarded as a breakthrough because it can be integrated into roofing materials, vehicle roof-tops and other ...

The Keep It Simple Solar Tile - KISSTile
Popgadget - USA
... Encouraging Australian homeowners to embrace solar power is no small task; although a world leader in solar technology and the third largest producer of ...

May 24, 2006

Growing an answer
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... There will also be a root cellar belonging to the farmhouse, which will serve as storage for another Foodworks project, the Farm to Table program which helps ...

Climatologist: April third warmest for La.
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA... along the equator that usually result in warmer and drier weather conditions along the ... was the warmest in the 1895-2006 period of record, breaking the previous ...

Coming hurricane season looks to be another tempestuous one Above ... San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA... 1 should deliver up to 8 to 10 hurricanes, compared with the record-breaking 15 of ... Predicting the weather with any kind of precision is a gamble, so the best ...

Thumbs down for plan to build eco-friendly home The Wilmslow Express - Wilmslow,England,UK
A WILMSLOW man who wants to replace his draughty old house with a new eco-home is being driven up the wall by planners. Father-of ...

The Slow Climb Up Yucca Mountain The American Enterprise Online - Washington,DC,USA
... by the idea of storing stainless steel canisters 1,500 feet underground as the ... stop is the north entrance to the five-mile "exploratory" tunnel that DOE ...

Locals say rail tunnel is a winner
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... proposal to bury one of Melbourne's main rail lines in a tunnel and to ... plan, stations at Heyington, Gardiner, Kooyong and Tooronga would go underground and new ...

New heating idea for modern home
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
... rainwater to flush the toilets. The accommodation includes a first floor artist's studio and a large roof terrace giving a panoramic view of the front garden ...

Alaska's Denali showcases green technology
USA Today - USA
... The goal was to have solar panels and innovative heating and cooling systems that would make the center self-sufficient for energy.

Mount Weather
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
... there'sa tunnel from Mount Weather to the white house - underground…."I've ... Congressional leaders were reportedly wisked off to a secret bunker 75 miles ...

Show Teaches Garden Tips To Urban Dwellers
CBS2 Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
... encourage homeowners to collect rainwater in barrels for use around the yard. There are hives for honeybees on City Hall's 30,000 square foot rooftop garden. ...

City's green-building effort waiting to bloom
MSNBC - USA
... building's HVAC system. In Chicago, it's a green roof that dramatically lowers air temperature and storm water runoff. In Portland

The World's Greenest Factory?
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
... The building is made from several tonnes of sustainable wood and recycled bricks, above which is a 5,600 square metre green roof.

Iowa co. hopes to make gasoline obsolete
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... engines. The engine can run on a number of fuels including hydrogen, ethanol, natural gas, propane or digester gas from landfills. ...

Cooking gas from sewage
Times of India - India
... DEWATS involves three steps. First the sewage is collected in a biogas digester (a pot-shaped structure made of earth, built underground). ...

On the Olive Oil Trail, Glass by Glass
New York Times - United States
... Mr. Hall was standing in the ranch's wine cave, a rammed-earth structure that smelled of earth, damp and pure, with a hint of spilled wine. ..

A glance at underground farming
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
GOING UNDERGROUND: Controlled Pharming Ventures LLC opened in 2003 in a converted limestone mine in Marengo, Ind., about 35 miles northwest of Louisville, Ky.

GREEK, TURKISH JETS COLLIDE
Middle East Newsline - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
ANKARA [MENL] -- A Greek fighter-jet crashed into a Turkish warplane in the first such incident in years of dogfights over the disputed Aegean Sea. ...

Researcher grows amazing corn crop 160 feet under
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
... of the 1,300 genetically altered corn plants he is raising deep underground so their ... it in drought-like conditions any time of year to speed along research. .

Venture Capitalists, China and Green Technology
Mongabay.com - USA
... with a storied past, has set his sights on "green technology" and ultimately ... Early this spring, Chinese officials named solar and clean coal technologies as ...

Climatologist: April third warmest for La.
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... along the equator that usually result in warmer and drier weather conditions along the ... was the warmest in the 1895-2006 period of record, breaking the previous ...

Coming hurricane season looks to be another tempestuous one Above ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... 1 should deliver up to 8 to 10 hurricanes, compared with the record-breaking 15 of ... Predicting the weather with any kind of precision is a gamble, so the best ...

Thumbs down for plan to build eco-friendly home
The Wilmslow Express - Wilmslow,England,UK
A WILMSLOW man who wants to replace his draughty old house with a new eco-home is being driven up the wall by planners. Father-of ...

The Slow Climb Up Yucca Mountain
The American Enterprise Online - Washington,DC,USA
... by the idea of storing stainless steel canisters 1,500 feet underground as the ... stop is the north entrance to the five-mile “exploratory” tunnel that DOE ...

Alaska's Denali showcases green technology
USA Today - USA
... The goal was to have solar panels and innovative heating and cooling systems that would make the center self-sufficient for energy.

Mount Weather
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
... there’sa tunnel from Mount Weather to the white house - underground….“I’ve ... Congressional leaders were reportedly wisked off to a secret bunker 75 miles ...

City's green-building effort waiting to bloom
MSNBC - USA... building's HVAC system. In Chicago, it's a green roof that dramatically lowers air temperature and storm water runoff. In Portland

Cooking gas from sewage
Times of India - India
... DEWATS involves three steps. First the sewage is collected in a biogas digester (a pot-shaped structure made of earth, built underground). ...

May 19, 2006

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Saving energy, saving money, saving our planet
Tonawanda News - North Tonawanda ,NY,USA
... Don't leave your computer and printer on overnight. Even in screen-save mode, it will still draw at least 10 watts. Unplug any appliance that is not in use. ...

Police Unearth Stolen Vehicles Buried Underground
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(CBS4) ROGGEN, Colo. Four men were arrested in Weld County after authorities unearthed stolen cars that were deliberately buried.

Drilling resumes at old Central City gold mine Denver Business Journal - Denver,CO,USA ... "The drills are now turning underground. We have been preparing the site, manpower and equipment these last few weeks and the underground ...

Cool appliance rebate proves hot
London Free Press - Canada
... away. Another 65 had applied for rebates for new appliances. They also will receive an energy-saving kit valued at $25. Retailers ...

No pumping law leaves SI farmers without petrol
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand ... are being left high and dry following the enforcement of what Federated Farmers says is a decades-old law around pumping fuel into underground storage tanks. ...

Viewed in a new light Courier Mail - AustraliaAT FIRST Ambilight sounds like a gimmick ... it is a lighting technology that is unique to Philips LCD and plasma televisions. Lights ...

Finding light sources in dark condo
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... A: As you have noted, the biggest drawback of your new home is the lack of natural lighting. ... The master bedroom has good natural lighting and a view.

IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF NATURAL LIGHT IN YOUR HOME Easy Natural ...
PR Leap (press release) - Chula Vista,CA,USA (PRLEAP.COM) Homeowners can save money on energy costs, protect furniture from fading, and gain the healthful benefits of more balanced natural light simply by .

South Florida farmers going organic
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... Right now, though, the "garden" is tattered, with only a semblance of rows ... "We're concerned with sustainable food — agriculture and aquaculture," said Danny ...

Caloy ravages Corregidor island
Manila Standard Today - Philippines
... "Corregidor, the island fortress that stands as a memorial for courage, valor ... defending the Philippines against the invasion of the Japanese imperial army ..

In Revamped Federal Reserve, Residents Find a Structure Built to ..
LA Downtown News Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA... tunnel marks the spot where the Federal Reserve cleared out millions in cash when it abandoned the building in the mid-1980s. The money was moved underground ...

BACKGROUND REPORT ON WORLD WAR III
Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach,FL,USA
... The top secret military economy is in full production. ... Further, the Russian are building huge underground nuclear bunkers and weapons production facilities in ...

Soggy May one for the record books Pembroke Mariner - Marshfield,MA,USA A record-breaking siege of rain has turned streets into streams in some parts of ... Yards and basements were flooded and the rainy weather certainly put a damper ...

Record-Breaking Temperatures Throughout Utah
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- It's only May, but it feels like July as much of Utah experiences record-breaking temperatures. The National Weather Service reported ...

Self-Contained, Self-Rescuer for Underground Mines Soon to be ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2006--As the US Senate today considers legislation to require underground mines to store two-hour emergency oxygen ...

Border-watching technology useful, but glitch-prone
Oxford Press - Oxford,OH,USA
... UNDERGROUND RADAR EQUIPMENT: In reaction to a rash of tunnel building, law enforcement is now using radar-like equipment to try and locate underground border ...

May 16, 2006

Norfolk's a building industry winner
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK... The principle behind earth sheltering is that it maintains a consistent internal temperature within the home (of about 20C) without the need for any additional

Modular Treehouse Concept
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia ... home offices and even 30 seater conference suites, and we've waxed lyrical about the Free Spirit Sphere, but this latest concept tree house from UK-based ...

10 New SUVs That Get at Least 24 mpg Autochannel - USA
... 9. Toyota Highlander Hybrid -- This vehicle's reported 30 mpg in mixed driving comes at ... a very optimistic fuel economy number when it comes to everyday SUV use ...

Why a turbine could save you money The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK ... of micro -renewables, which include wind turbines, solar panels and geothermal heat pumps ... was expecting to save around £1000 a year from my electricity bill but ...

Savings Come From Ground Up
Guelph Tribune - Guelph,ON,Canada
... a bit more electricity, but we're already powering 20 per cent of our electricity from wind ... His home will be the fifth in Guelph to use geothermal technology. ...

'Geothermal' energy goes mainstream
BusinessNorth.com - Duluth,MN,USA
... That constant temperature can be effectively concentrated by geothermal technology to heat or cool without burning fuel or using excessive electricity. ...

Nekoma vies for UAV center
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA ... Much of the steel -reinforced concrete structure is underground. ... FAA officials asked both universities to submit separate research proposals. ...

Putting utilities underground won't be cheap for Venturans
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
... properties boasting panoramic views, Ventura seems a natural fit for a process that places electrical, telephone and other overhead utility lines underground

Homes getting smarter with new technology MSNBC - USA
... happening. "We alert the parents of the child moving around at night by lighting and home automation," says Hoefler with Home Technology. ...

Energy Tour Sponsored by UW Community Enrichment Programs June 7 University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA... On the return trip to Laramie, the final stop will be at the Silo House in Kimball, Neb. The facility, once a missile silo, is now a private residence.

Bone Voyage: Catacombs of Paris are an underground 'empire of ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA... But to me, the only antidote for a retrospective of French photographer Bernard Faucon is something along the lines of an underground cemetery. ...

10-acre salad hothouse set for refusal Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK A scheme for a sprawling glass house to grow salad crops in the East Yorkshire ... Van Dijk Nurseries, based at North Cave, wants to put 10 acres three miles away ...

It's no go for the eco-home
Herts 24 - Herts,UK PROTESTORS turned out in force to oppose an eco-friendly house planned on green belt land. The earth-sheltered design for Friday ...

Clever and classic designs brighten choices in lighting Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA ... Technology has turned the design community into a vast playground of mind-boggling choices in every category, but none so exciting as the world of lighting. ...

Bush Stands in Line with Chinese Christians for Religious Freedom
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Those worshipping in "underground" house churches are often subjected to arrests, heavy fines, and imprisonment by government authorities. ...

'Clouds of flies from crumbling St Pauls plague city shopkeepers
Perthshire Advertiser - Perthshire,UK
A PLAGUE of flies emanating from ramshackle St Paul's Church is making life a misery for Fair City traders. Shop owners at St ...

Underground Blast Wakes Troy Neighborhood WXYZ - Detroit,MI,USA Friday, an underground blast sent a manhole cover flying into the air and jolted ... Ragheb was on the way to a doctor appointment when the explosion occurred just ...

Miner's tale from bowels of the earth The Age - Melbourne ,Victoria,Australia ... further tremors underground during the rescue. Mr Burns told The Age there had been two or three such events each day. "It sounds like an explosion," he said ...

Huge rock breaks off St. Helens' rising fin Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA ... The crater was formed by the volcano's deadly May 18, 1980, eruption, which killed 57 people and blasted about 1,300 feet off the then-9,677-foot peak. ...

World's First Ethanol-Fueled Hybrid Azom.com - USA
... Ford Escape Hybrid, already the world's most fuel-efficient small SUV, would produce about 25 percent less carbon dioxide if operated exclusively on renewable ...

Ministers 'are failing to live up to their green rhetoric'
Eco-earth - London,England,UK
... When Alan Simpson gets his quarterly power bill he can expect to be paid for the energy produced by the low emissions generators in his eco-home. ...

Managing natural disasters in Fiji
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
... Disasters cause massive economic loss to small nations like Fiji ... Since 1992, Fiji has experienced 22 tropical cyclones, 7 storms, a period of drought in 1997-98 ...

DuPont shifts focus off new discoveries Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... Faced with a drought of blockbuster products from its labs, DuPont has focused ... Against this backdrop has been the massive restructuring of DuPont itself. ...

A perfect Mother's Day gift
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA ... When I was nine or ten, my step-sister and I devised a plan to build a massive tree house in the boughs of four giant hemlocks that grew at the edge of the ...

The eco-friendly family building for the future Mercury - UK
GREEN builder Pat Wilkinson spends sleepless nights worrying that a tank collecting rainwater is empty at the East Herts eco-house he is creating with his ...

Cell phones have a place in wilderness Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... backcountry travel. Why bother to train and prepare for wilderness survival, some might argue, if all you need to do is pack a phone? If ...

How green is your building? BMC will tell you Mumbai Newsline - Mumbai,India ... For citizens looking to grab the sops that eco-house owners will get, there's good news: The team will also study how many of the green interventions can be ...

River plays hide, paddler plays seek
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
There's an underground network of caverns that swallow or eject entire rivers at a time ... they are all on sloughs or ox-bow lakes that are well-hidden from the ...(Press refresh if article doesn't come up)

Running on hydrogen
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ ,USA
... The two men run a solar-panel installation company and have joined in ... The technology that makes hydrogen energy possible -- fuel cells -- has been around since ..

Water District Finishes Tunnel/Reservoir Plan
Southwest News-Herald - Chicago ,IL,USA ... The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, also known as TARP, was built to prevent ... The project, which began in 1972, included 204 miles of underground tunnels about 300 ...

Wild Weather: Global Warming or Just Weird? ABC News - USA... India records its greatest precipitation event ever, with a weather station in ... Back in 2003, Europe's record-breaking heat wave killed more than 30,000 eel in ..

Cheaper Solar Comes Closer
Red Herring - CA,USA
... Because they are translucent, the solar panels can be used not only on rooftops, but in windows, curtain walls, and skylights, said Tom Ward, vice president of ...

Another volcano in Kamchatka spouting ash to 6 km above sea level ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
... This is the second volcano eruption in Kamchatka in less than a week. May 9, the Bezymyanny volcano spouted a cloud of ash to the ...

Route 66 group unearth tunnel in Odell Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA... Weiss said two cracks in the road show where the tunnel was underground. He also plans on painting a small marker on the road to show the tunnel.

Digging deep ... 540 feet beneath the streets on New York City
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA ... UNDERGROUND at Tunnel No. 3, some 250 sandhogs and 70 to 80 operating engineers are on the payroll for the massive project, which ...

May 11, 2006

'Pot Cave' soon to be up for sale
USA Today - USA
... to make use of his "Pot Cave." He'll be bunking with some other guys at a state-supported correctional facility. So, Strunk's "stylish A-frame house" with the .. .

'Sorry, weve had to dig up your garden!
Times 24 - Herts,UK
AN underground explosion left dozens of homes in Potters Bar without power - and led to a man's garden being ripped up. Byers Close ...

Wildfires Plague Parched Florida
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
LAKELAND -- Wildfires closed interstate highways on opposite sides of the state Monday as firefighters struggled to cope with an increasingly dangerous ...

Squeezing oil out of rock?
Lowell Sun - Lowell,MA,USA
... currently investigating oil shale in Colorado with its Mahogany Research Project, which ... a technique called "in situ" that heats shale underground, then sucks ...

Highway bypass threatens rare underground orchid
ABC Online - Australia
The native orchid, rhizanthella slateri, is the only known plant that spends its entire life underground and is currently listed as a vulnerable species. ...

Bandwidth joins terrestrial solar bandwagon
Compound Semiconductor - Bristol,UK
... "With the demand for solar electricity and shortage of polycrystalline silicon, concentrator solar technology has an opportunity to become significant in the

Settlers sell Palestinians fuel
Ynetnews - Israel
With the Palestinian Authority hit by severe fuel shortages, hundreds of Palestinian drivers, most of them taxi drivers, have been flocking lately to an ...

High oil prices fuel bioenergy push
Mongabay.com - USA
... While other alternative energies - - like solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and tidal -- offer viable options for electricity generation, around 40 ...

Rains Plague Serbia with Floods, Landslides Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK Vatican City – Caritas Serbia and Montenegro is appealing for over 35,000 USD in order to continue to help victims of flooding that ravaged the region for ...

'Venus Express Spacecraft Explores Earths Mysterious Sister ...Voice of America - USA
... Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The agency chose to send a vehicle to Venus to study the planet's mysterious climate. Venus is so ...

'Underground' car park pops up for air Prop.co.za - South Africa
... The garage was initially scheduled to be built underground by Gautrain's developers, the Bombela Consortium. But, at a meeting with .

Curse of Darkness and 'Free' Power in Uganda
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... hydroelectricity to Uganda. Hydro-electricity is still 30 times cheaper than geothermal, so let Uganda be the regional producer. ...

Puget looks to manure for new energy Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... at such varied options as methane from cow manure, tidal motion, geothermal, solar, biomass -- and more wind. Reynolds said the need for more electricity isn't ...

Philippines quake leaves 10 million without electricity
Zee News - Noida,India
... million people in the Central Philippines without electricity today, officials ... of the Tongonan, Palinpinon, Mahanandong and Malitbog Geothermal Power Stations ..

Nevadan Takes on Operation Divine Strake
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
... "There is no way that explosion can interact with those ... Morgan is with Nevada's Department of Energy. He says those nuclear tests were done deeply underground. ...

Jeweler turns simple medals into treasures
University Daily Kansan - Lawrence,KS,USA
... Amber, with a one-of-a-kind necklace crafted from amber, a gem that is actually fossilized resin hardened over millions of years into a translucent gold color. ...

Stardust students
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
... (The collector captured dust using a substance called Aerogel, which has the lowest density of any known solid, making it capable of catching the finest dust.). ...

Nuclear waste: the forever problem
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada
... The Yucca Mountain project, which is under development but not yet in use, would become a permanent central storage location for all American nuclear waste. ...

Exploring mystical tunnels beneath the campus Wesleyan Argus - Middletown,CT,USA ... With the recent rediscovery of a forgotten vault in the basement of 285 Court St., discussions of what else may be hidden underground have become more prevalent ...

Grounds for concern
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ ,USA
... from the hidden shaft, which has railroad tracks angling down toward the Peters Mine's main shaft, leading to 17 levels and miles of tunnels underground.

Russia's largest volcano erupts in Far East region
Xinhua - China
The eruption of the volcano Bezymyanny, located in the central area of the Kamchatka Peninsula, began at around 21:21 local time (0821 GMT), the Itar-Tass news ...

Timeline: US-Iran ties
BBC News - UK
... A UN resolution condemns Iran for keeping some of its nuclear activities secret. ... the US is planning a tactical nuclear strike against underground nuclear sites .

Life at end of tunnel
Courier Mail - Australia
... men crawled through the small tunnel and then came out into a larger tunnel, where they were placed on a stretcher and put in the back of an underground vehicle ...

Life underground: How two trapped miners stayed alive and sane
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide ,South Australia,Australia
... the problem of getting themselves back to the surface from almost 1km underground. ... When rescuers punched a small tunnel through the rock five days later, the ...

May 9, 2006

'I am in heaven'
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
... Both managed to collect rocks from a log house chimney in Kenton County and a root cellar from the Finn Home on Woolper Road in Boone County. ...

How Green is My Hybrid?
Kiplinger.com - Washington,DC,USA
... equivalent. If you want a compact SUV, you're not going to find a greener model than the hybrid Ford Escape. Need a third row of seats? ...

Blot on the landscape
Times Online - UK... be planted with biomass crops, which can be anaerobically digested to provide electricity. This will be supplemented with solar panels and geothermal heating

Solar Race Around the World
BusinessWeek - USA
... Which makes them -- assuming that they will fly and float -- powerful catalysts for solar technology developments that could lead to applications in many other ...

UK to harness solar power from space? 24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK ... future energy demands - including the possibility of harnessing solar power from space ... by the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology and presented .

Visitors walking through the Berlin Holocaust memorial during its ...
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel ... the Brandenburg Gate and the remains of Adolf Hitler's bunker in central ... An underground information center, which documents the stories of individual Jewish ...

Ancient treasures fished from Greek seas Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa ... Greece, as part of a programme to recuperate and preserve ancient artifacts, offers treasure finders a reward worth 10 percent of the object's value to return ...

'SCIENCE: Dunes Gird Titan, Saturns Most Mysterious Moon
HNN Huntingtonnews.net - WV, USA
Titan, the planet Saturn's most mysterious moon, now poses a fresh puzzle: mile upon mile of rippling dunes similar to the desert sand dunes of the Sahara or ...

Youth Town Hall gives teens an insight into biotechnology
Kannapolis Independent Tribune - Kannapolis, NC,USA
... tubes. They also experiment with aquaponics, recirculating aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil).

May 8, 2006

Amaris Elliott-Engel / The Citizen
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
... to-do list will be planning a meal with items from her one-acre organic garden and from the pantry off her elegant kitchen in the middle of her underground home ...

A wary Israel eyes Iran with unease
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... Iran has insisted that its nuclear research is for peaceful purposes only, but ... Saddam took the program underground to avoid detection, stepped up efforts to ...

''Miner who survived Sago disaster: Oxygen rescue masks didnt ...
The Militant - New York,NY,USA
... around a sealed-off area of the mine where the explosion eventually took ... meeting of the US Department of Labor in Washington on underground rescue equipment ...

Mt. Clemens back in business
Detroit Free Press - United States
... The exact cause of the explosion remains unknown, although it is possible a spark ... in some cases, you will see sewer gas in these underground vaults," Singer

The life of a sandhog: Building NYC underground
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA... For most of the attention of each around-the-clock shift is focused underground — 600 feet below 10th Avenue and deep in the bedrock from which Manhattan ...

Special activities at national parks, monuments
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Ancient cave dwellings including the Mug House, which has never been open to the public, and the Oak Tree House, closed since the 1930s, will be open to the ...

Word perfect
The Observer - UK
... in 1977, an obscure list of mythical beings, published in 1895 by an amateur folklorist called MA Denham, was uncovered which includes 'hobbits', along with ...

Gas, utility hikes touch everyone
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... 1980s Chevy van to his gigs across the Valley from Phoenix to Cave Creek to ... water and some appliances and dries her clothes by hanging them inside her house. ...

Chip equipment maker to acquire solar tech equipment maker
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Edging its way into the hot market for solar technology, semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials agreed to buy Applied Films on Thursday for $464 ...

Merapi volcano spewing burned lava
Xinhua - China... posts. The volcano is now entering the phase of eruption. A new dome of molten lava continued to grow and so did tremors. Subandrio ...

Underground Power Line May Have Killed Girl
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
... Recreation and Parks said in a statement that the accident "appears to have been caused by contact between a portion of the fence and an underground power line ...

An 'underground' radio to save lives
ZDNet - USA
... One of the technologies these companies may soon be looking at is the Underground Radio, a novel device that would enable two-way communication through ...

Better driving to save fuel
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... But if you insist on driving an SUV, pickup or other such gas guzzler, then stop whining. ... Consider a hybrid vehicle or even a diesel. ...

Rescue crews inch toward two Australian miners
Seattle Times - United States
... The narrow, 52-foot tunnel was likely to reach its final stages at noon today and officials hoped the miners had spent their final night underground. ...

An innovative angle
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA... The house has geothermal heating and incorporates passive solar design -- using the sun ... and more elaborate as I progressed." One had electricity, via extension ...

West Wire: Deep inside Kansas cave, counting up what Indians are ..Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... industrial park a half hour southwest of Kansas City, the cave offers few ... Indian Affairs Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., and House Resources Committee ...

Sinkholes Could Put Insurers In A Hole Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA... through cracks in the clay erodes the ceilings of underground voids, said ... Stewart's research suggests that, all things being equal, any homeowner in the Bay

How safe is the water?
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... said microbiologist Roger Fujioka of the UH Water Resources Research Center ... The thermal pond is warmed by underground volcanic sources, reaching temperatures of ...

May 7, 2006

~~~~Strawbale church on the way: Congregation of St. Francis in the ...
Willits News - Willits,CA,USA
... They were looking at various building styles, Crosss wife, Diana Cavendish, explained to TWN. We have a strawbale house. They came ...

Tax cuts no answer to energy prices
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
... cent per house, per year; solar hot water systems can reduce oil and electricity consumption for hot water by 50 per cent; and new geothermal systems reduce ...

Continue testing on bunker buster
Jacksonville Daily News - Jacksonville,NC,USA
... nuclear bunker-buster. The test, dubbed "Divine Strake," is a necessary step toward developing a non-nuclear method of knocking out hardened underground ...

Even before you renovate
INQ7.net - Philippines
... Oftentimes, the all-important consideration for natural lighting and ventilation takes a back seat because of the need for more living space. ...

Students use tunnel to break into Moulton, steal food, knives
Bowdoin Orient - Brunswick,ME,USA
... of the tunnel, and that they were not made for human use other than for repairs. He said there has been a history of people breaking into the underground steam ...

Homeland Security Begins Sealing Massive Border Tunnel
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... The Tunnel Task Force is using an array of high-tech equipment and intelligence information to pinpoint the location of underground passageways along the ...

The subterranean world of Palmaz winery provides environmental ...
Napa Valley Register - Napa,CA,USA
... All water is recycled in an underground water-treatment plant to comply with ... for first-year barrel storage radiating like spokes to an outer circular tunnel. ...

How the sun can generate power - and jobs
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... Wrexham for its European production facility was a big vote of confidence in the local workforce, considering Britain's lack of support for solar technology. ...

—C'mon down the party's fine!
Seattle Times - United States
... Underground. The Nisqually earthquake closed the Fenix, so owner Rick Wyatt re-located a block away, again finding a space that was part of the sunken "hidden ...

Matters of size
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... If your containers are to sit on a roof garden or balcony it's also vital to get the balance right between lightweight, yet not so flimsy that they'll get ...

May 5, 2006

US EPA convenes panel to study "boutique" fuels
Reuters.uk - UK
... Agency on Thursday said it convened a taskforce with state governors to study the effects of "boutique" gasoline blends which are contributing to fuel shortages ...

NIMBY AREAS RULED OUT FOR DUMP
Cumbrian Business Gazette - Penrith,Cumbria,UK
... News had predicted, the announcement could pave the way for an underground storage facility ... If a bunker is built the waste would be buried between 300m and ...

Is Radioactive Fallout Headed for Idaho?
Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA
... test, called Divine Strake, is designed to modify US made bunker busting bombs ... the effectiveness of bombs designed to destroy targets buried deep underground. ...

Explosions rock Mount Clemens
Macomb Daily - Mount Clemens,MI,USA
... and there was a surge in the load, which caused the explosion in the ... gases such as carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the underground infrastructure system ...

Towngas to double checks after blast The Standard - Hong Kong
... The explosion tore a two-meter deep hole in the lift lobby of the building ... he feared that there could be other gas blasts if leaks of underground gas pipes were ...

High Oil Prices Due to Limited Production Capacity, Say Analysts
Washington File - Washington,DC,USA
... in demand in recent years, according to Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman ... risks in the oil market "are not the resources underground but what is ...

During Katrina, the 17th Street Canal floodwall protecting ...
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... permanent safeguards -- including converting the open canal to an underground, concrete box ... Rogers and Bea say the bottom line of all the research tells them ...

May 4, 2006

Surviving the Storm
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... If there is no reinforced building or underground shelter nearby, take cover in a ditch or depression. 40% of tornado-related deaths occur in mobile homes.

If Gas Prices Are Up, Why Are Hybrid Sales Down?
BusinessWeek - USA
... Ford Motor (F) says sales of its Escape hybrid went through the roof in April, but that's only after the company offered 0% financing deals on the SUV. ..

Working in the Garden This Spring? Watch Out for Buried Gas and ...
PrimeZone (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... As a free service, USA will contact SDG&E and other area utilities, and the utilities will then locate and mark their respective underground facilities. ...

Jamestown officials investing in ethanol-steam plant
Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,USA
... week. The 100 million gallon a year ethanol plant and steam power plant is planned in Spiritwood, about 10 miles east of Jamestown. ..

Ky. offers Henderson site for coal plant
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... jobs and would become the leading worldwide research facility for ... while capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide in underground geological formations. ...

Pollution-free plastic developed by CIPET scientists
Hindustan Times - India
... also has varied uses in agriculture and defence and in covering underground and open ... He said research to develop a biodegradable plastic was in progress and at ...

Seismic centres to be built in quake prone areas
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
... need to measure the earth's resistance and the flow of underground water, as ... He said that substantial research was needed in the subject of seismology and

New solar power plant utilizing thin-film technology
Construction and Maintenance News - Minsk,Belarus
... AG from Regensburg. It will be the world's largest solar power plant utilizing crystalline thin-film technology. The final output ...

May 3, 2006

Welsh Councils Are Not Building Green Homes
Green Building Press - Carmarthenshire,Wales,UK
WWF Cymru say that the Welsh Assembly and local councils are not doing enough to encourage and champion the building of environmentally friendly homes. ...

Living on borrowed land: Park encroachments plague city
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
By ROBERT STRUCKMAN of the Missoulian. Faded pink flags on wooden stakes mark a long access easement across 13 acres Larry and June ...

IOM Indonesia Newsletter: Issue 1, volume 2 - May 2006
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
The village is participating in a pilot project of IOM's livelihood support unit to introduce the advantages of an aquaponics system, a technique for food

$430m in hot-rocks research
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
... Mr Goldstein said once carbon emissions and electricity generation costs were factored in, geothermal energy, at about $60/megawatt hour, was more cost .

2005 Atlantic hurricanes break 150 year record
Fortnightly Tenerife News - Tenerife,Spain
... forecasters have been reviewing the situation as far as the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic ... The 28 Atlantic extreme weather phenomena were the most on record for ...

Don't let underground springs water down your home plans
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... Underground springs are a special situation that affect certain building lots, but with a little extra work the spring on your lot can be rendered harmless. ...

Radar sees through earth
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... to explore terrain pocked with caves, sinkholes and other hidden geological secrets ... The equipment will make gathering information on underground feature faster ...

CHINA'S WILD WEATHER KILLS 12
Special Broadcasting Service - Australia
The wild weather battered the Shandong cities of Heze, Linyi, Zaozhuang, Jining and Liaocheng from Wednesday to Friday last week, the official Xinhua News ...

Innovalight Raises $7.5 M for Its Silicon Ink Technology
RenewableEnergyAccess.com - Peterborough,NH,USA
... com] Innovalight plans to accelerate the development of ultra-low cost, lightweight solar cells using a proprietary silicon ink-based technology.

Sentries reunite, tour super-secret Cold War bunker
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
... Across from the pillboxes are the steel doors that guarded the series of underground bunkers. The bunker the Marines toured Friday as part of their reunion ...

Latest Technology Transfer Could Reduce Chinese Coal Mining Deaths
InvestorIdeas.com (press release) - Point Roberts,WA,USA
... also say this technique allows for significant savings over alternate underground gas drainage ... He explained that when coal miners are opening a tunnel, the gas ...

May 2, 2006

Identity theft can be a plague on your house
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
Victims tell of job loss, red tape that follows when someone assumes your ID, spends in your name. While visiting an old girlfriend ...

Localities line up for a great program
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
... for all kinds of clean and renewable power, from biomass to geothermal, all of ... back with the amount the county government would save on electricity, which runs ...

Hybrid hijinks: Some automakers on wrong road
Boston Globe - United States
... Ford is offering zero percent financing for the hybrid version of its Escape SUV because the hybrid version isn't selling. Honda ...

Car lovers beginning to flirt with trains, buses and car pools
Buffalo News - NY, United States
... "Sometimes I look at this, and I wish it was a hybrid.". ... As the Kenmore resident watched the price hit $43 to fill up her Ford Escape SUV, she said, "I've never ...

Backstory: Kathmandu's rooftop respites
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... Get all the Monitor's headlines by e-mail. After morning puja - a religious offering at the local shrine - Mohan heads to his rooftop garden. ...

Heat is on for more power underground
Advertiser Adelaide - Adelaide,South Australia,Australia
... Mr Reid said the South Australian company, which is hoping to generate power from steam superheated underground by hot rocks in the state's far north, would ...

See-through shutters: Transparency appeals to homeowners tired of ...
Miami Herald - FL,USA
... in a cave.''. Although the transparent options are ''four times as expensive as plywood,'' Reinhold has bought clear panels for windows in his Tampa house and a ...

A fair for the unprepared
Sedalia Democrat - Sedalia,MO,USA
Bill Peterson lifted his two boys, one in each arm, and let them look down inside a Si Precast tornado shelter Saturday on the SFCC campus Saturday. ...

Mushroom lovers of all ages take in Spores n' More Festival
Herald & Review - Decatur,IL,USA
... While adults gathered in Shelbyville for the real hunt for the wily morel mushrooms that pop up in the April woods, the children had an easier time at their ...

May 1, 2006

Opponents swarm compost meeting
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
By Linda Davis. SUNOL - Dozens of Sunol residents raised a stink Wednesday night over a proposed 40-acre composting facility they ...

'Back 40' built Earth-friendly
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... They were determined to do whatever they could on their own, from forming the rammed-earth walls to fashioning the Baltic birch cabinetry for the kitchen area

Old guards finally peek in 'Birdcage'
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle - Clarksville,TN,USA... Across from the pillboxes are the iron doors that guarded the series of underground bunkers. The bunker the Marines toured Friday as part of their reunion went ...

Shaft Shifting
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley/Nevada City,CA,USA
... model of five square miles of tunnel, shafts and drifts under the Grass Valley area. But again, most of those are very deep, down to almost a mile underground. ...

Paris backs a Google rival seeking new search powers
Business Online - London,UK
... underground railway technology, energy-saving buildings and diesel-electric car engines, Quaero is close to fruition. The first services of the E250m research ...

Groundwater bill clears Legislature
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
... The bill also prepares the state to begin mapping underground aquifers. The large amount of money and research needed to do that will come from company's who ...

Lighting, elevated to art form, can be changed on a whim
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Technology has turned the design community into a playground of mind-boggling choices in every category, but none so exciting as the world of lighting.

Unearthing hidden dangers
Sacramento Bee - CA, USA
... But it turned out the previous owner had built the house along the shaft of the former New Brunswick mine, which inclined underground. ...

California Regulators Approve Solar Incentives
Chief Engineer - Crestwood,IL,USA
... of the nation's largest installers of solar electric systems. "It puts us in a position to achieve our ultimate goal, which is for this technology to compete ..

GM official: We need alternatives to oil
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... Burns expects fuel cell technology to be available at dealerships by 2015. Solar power "could be a major player" by then as well. ...

Israeli professor envisions a bright future
Israel 21C - Cupertino,CA,USA
... Concentrator solar cells promise to make solar energy into more than just an 'environmentalists' toy.". The new technology, developed under a three million euro ...

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