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Europe plans to double wind power each decade

admin /9 August, 2008

From Renewable Energy World In its newly released Strategic Research Agenda (SRA), the European Wind Energy Technology Platform (TPWind) a new vision in which more than a quarter of the EU’s electricity could be provided by wind in 2030. It describes the research priorities that tie in with this vision, and the financial and human Continue Reading →

Spain builds 28 new solar thermal plants

admin /2 August, 2008

Spain forges ahead with plans to build concentrating solar power plants, establishing the country and Spanish companies as world leaders in the emerging field. At the same time, the number of installed photovoltaic systems is growing exponentially, and researchers continue to explore new ways to promote and improve solar power. This is the seventh in an eight-part series highlighting new technologies in Spain and is produced by Technology Review, Inc.’s custom-publishing division in partnership with the Trade Commission of Spain.

Canadian ice shelf disappears

admin /2 August, 2008

AN area of ice covering about 18sqkm has broken off Canada’s largest remaining ice shelf. The ice floe drifts off the Ward Hunt shelf Trent University researcher Derek Mueller said yesterday he would not be surprised if more ice broke off during the northern summer from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf, a vast frozen plain Continue Reading →

Congressmen cranky at Big Oil’s greed

admin /2 August, 2008

By Tom Doggett at Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats on Thursday urged big oil companies to invest more of their record profits into boosting U.S. oil production and developing renewable energy instead of buying back their own stock. Exxon Mobil, which reported on Thursday the biggest quarterly corporate profit in history at $11.7 billion Continue Reading →

The World’s Foremost Terrorist – The US Government

admin /2 August, 2008

http://www.rense.com/general82/fore.htm By Karl Schwarz This article will explain to you why the Totally Screwed-Up US Strategic Plan for the Caspian Basin has backfired and created a “megatrend” against America that may well be the doom of our nation.   Any country willing to spend 30 years lying, conniving and scheming – and blow over $3 Continue Reading →

CENTCOMÂ’s Master Plan and U.S. Global Hegemony

admin /2 August, 2008

From MWC News Net

 

By Robert Higgs

Many people deny that the U.S. government presides over a global empire. If you speak of U.S. imperialism, they will fancy that you must be a decrepit Marxist-Leninist who has recently awakened after spending decades in a coma. Yet the facts cannot be denied, however much peopleÂ’s ideology may predispose them to distort or obfuscate those facts.

How can a government that maintains more than 800 military facilities in more than 140 different foreign countries be anything other than an imperial power? The hundreds of thousands of troops who operate those bases and conduct operations from them, not to mention the approximately 125,000 sailors and Marines aboard the U.S. warships that cruise the oceans, are not going door to door selling Girl Scout cookies. United States of America is the name; intimidation is the game.