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         <title>Coffee as a source of biofuels?</title>
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From&#160;SciDev.Net&#160;-&#160;December 31, 2008

Read Full Article:&#160;Coffee next in line as biofuel source - SciDev.Net
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Coffee grounds — currently wasted or used as garden compost — could become a cheap and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel and fuel pellets, says a study. Spent coffee grounds contain 11–20% oil, depending on their type. "This is competitive with other major biodiesel feedstocks such as rapeseed oil (37–50%), palm oil (20%), and soybean oil...]]></description>
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         <title>World Crops Threatened by Strengthening La Nina Cooling </title>
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From:&#160;Bloomberg.com&#160;-&#160;December 26, 2008

Read Full Article:&#160;World Crops Threatened by Strengthening La Nina Weather Pattern | Bloomberg.com
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Grain and oilseed crops may be threatened next year by a weather pattern known as La Niña, according to a private forecaster.

La Niña conditions have developed rapidly across the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the past few weeks, said Drew Lerner, president of World Weather Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas. He said that may...]]></description>
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         <title>Solar vs Wind Energy</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[An interesting discussion that has developed over the past two months on the&#160;GreenerPeople.Com&#160;forum, on the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy and solar energy, with emphasis on its use in small-scale or domestic applications.

Link to thread:&#160;Solar vs. Wind Energy - Greener People

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         <title>Mega solar power plant in Portugal connected to the grid</title>
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From&#160;Technology For Life&#160;- December 31, 2008&#160;

Read Full Article:&#160;A mega solar power plant in Portugal is connected to the grid « Technology For Life


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Acciona Energy has put into service its photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Amareleja (Moura, Portugal). The Company has invested around 261 million euro (US$367 million) in the 46 MWp plant, one of the largest of its kind in the world. Amareleja is capable of producing 93 million KW/h a year. The plant was...]]></description>
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         <title>NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Warming</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;From:&#160;ScienceDaily&#160;-&#160;December 28, 2008
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The frequency of extremely high clouds in Earth's tropics -- the type associated with severe storms and rainfall -- is increasing as a result of global warming, according to a study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

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According to recent reports, the first solar-powered community in North America has been established in the&#160;Drake Landing Solar Community&#160;(DLSC) in the town of Okotoks, Alberta (Canada). This community consists of 52 houses powered by solar energy - a total of 800 solar panels are located on garage roofs throughout the community which generate 1.5 megawatts of solar thermal power during a typical summer day. It is reported that the system stores the summer months' excess energy...]]></description>
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         <title> UK: £12m to encourage biomass heat</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[From:&#160;World of Cogeneration&#160;- December 22, 2008

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UK, Capital grants totalling £12 million are to be made available for the installation of biomass boilers, the government has announced. The money, which will be allocated in grants of up to £500,000 is to be made available through the Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme. Local authorities, schools, social housing and other "community"...]]></description>
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         <title>US-Ukraine Nanotechnology Research Center to Focus on Energy Efficiency</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;From:&#160;Meridian Institute&#160;- December 23, 2008

Read Full Article:&#160;US-Ukraine Nanotechnology Research Center to Focus on Energy Efficiency | NDN

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A new research center in Ukraine will focus on fundamental and applied research in nanotechnology for energy efficiency such as cathode, solar-electric and thermoelectric materials. The center will be located at the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk and is a joint project of the United...]]></description>
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         <title>Moody's revises Petrotrin's outlook from 'stable' to 'negative'</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[From:&#160;Reuters&#160;- December 19, 2008
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Moody's Investors Service changed the rating outlook for Petroleum Company of Trinidad &amp; Tobago (Petrotrin) to negative from stable.&#160;

The negative rating outlook is based on the possibility that Moody's could lower Petrotrin's underlying baseline credit assessment. Since Petrotrin is 100% owned by the government of Trinidad &amp;...]]></description>
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         <title>Era Of Cheap Gas Coming To An End, Warns Putin </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[From:&#160;RTT News&#160;- December 23, 2008
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Addressing a meeting of ministers from the world's major gas-exporting countries in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the era of cheap gas is coming to an end as the cost of extracting gas has increased sharply in the recent years.

"Costs, which are necessary to develop the [energy] sphere, are rising sharply," Putin...]]></description>
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         <title>&quot;India will have to reduce energy consumption by 20%&quot;</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[From:&#160;World of Solar Thermal&#160;- December 22, 2008


Source:&#160;'India will have to reduce energy consumption by 20%’
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CHENNAI: Some sections view the current economic meltdown as a direct fall-out of consumption exceeding money supply. Power policy makers of the country seem to have stuck on the analogy to caution energy consumption in urban India. “In fact, we need to expand energy con-sumption in this country, mainly to the two-thirds of our population who have scarce or no...]]></description>
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