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Solar energy world first in Australia
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australian solar power researchers have achieved world-beating levels of efficiency, potentially making large solar plants more competitive with other energy sources such as coal. A team from the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (PV) at the University of NSW has achieved 40.4 per cent "conversion efficiency" by using commercially available solar cells combined with a mirror and filters that reduce wasted energy. It's horse and buggy days as far as solar is concerned at the moment....
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We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
2014-12-08 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population - cutting down forests, plowing prairies - is a really bad idea. Whats less obvious, and more interesting/troubling, is that farmland expansion is so harmful on so many levels that its worth doing just about anything that helps us avoid opening up new land - even things that have their own environmental costs. Ive been reading back through the papers of David Tilman, an ecologist at the University...
Low Oil Prices Putting The Freeze On Fracking Projects Around The World
2014-12-08 11:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Insider: The collapse of oil prices may have a bigger impact on the shale boom than anyone realizes. The biggest threat may not be to the existing wells in the US, but the untapped resources around the world. According to Bloomberg, "Russia, China, Australia, Mexico and Argentina hold some of the [world's] richest shale reserves," but haven't yet invested in the fracking technology to drill them. Because the price of oil isn't high enough to cover the costs, there's just no economic incentive to start....
Kimberly-Clark Corp in Tissue and Hygiene (World) - new company profile report published
2014-12-08 04:48:38| Paper - Topix.net
The report examines company shares by region and sector, brand portfolio and new product developments, market and distribution strategies, challenges from the competition and future prospects. Use it to understand opportunities and threats facing the business and the factors driving success.
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Childhood friends reconnect after World War II, Japanese internment separated them
2014-12-07 22:04:20| Beverages - Topix.net
One April morning in 1942, George Fellows walked to Washington Middle School just as he did on any other school day, daydreaming about what he and his seventh-grade chums would do for fun when they didn't have to study. But something was amiss at school this particular morning.
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