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Grid-Scale Energy Storage to be worth $113.5 Billion per year by 2017

admin /6 April, 2012

Grid-Scale Energy Storage to be worth $113.5 Billion per Year by 2017 Posted: 04 Apr 2012 03:06 PM PDT Lux Research, an independent research and advisory firm providing strategic advice and on-going intelligence for emerging technologies, have recently released a bottom-up evaluation of energy storage technologies for grid-scale application. In their report, “Grid Storage under Continue Reading →

AVAAZ Where will you be on May 5

admin /6 April, 2012

Where will you be on May 5? Inbox x May Boeve – 350.org organizers@350.org 7:34 AM (2 hours ago) to me Images are not displayed. Display images below – Always display images from organizers@350.org   There’s just one month left until Climate Impacts Day on 5/5, when the world will connect the dots between extreme weather Continue Reading →

Fair Work Report to be released

admin /5 April, 2012

Fair Work Australia (FWA) has agreed to release in four to six weeks the report of its investigation into the Health Services Union’s national office. But the report will not be tabled in the Senate until FWA general manager Bernadette O’Neill has finished considering which of 181 contraventions of workplace laws found by investigators should Continue Reading →

Transport thinking stuck on a bureaucratic black box

admin /5 April, 2012

Transport thinking stuck in bureaucratic black box by: Robert Gibbons From:The Daily Telegraph April 05, 201212:00AM 0 PEOPLE’S PLAN – BE HEARD NOW SYDNEY needs rescuing. Past and future generations expect us to be smart, and the Premier promised to stop the stupidity. Those who don’t understand history are bound to repeat its mistakes. Do Continue Reading →

Science daily: Earth Science News

admin /5 April, 2012

ScienceDaily: Earth Science News New options for nuclear waste? Crushing pressure surprisingly opens up nanopores in mineral New mechanism of past global warming? Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events Growing nitrous oxide levels explained Vegetation cover affects the speed of snowmelt in tundra regions New options for nuclear waste? Crushing Continue Reading →

New forage plant prepares farmers for climate change

admin /5 April, 2012

ScienceDaily: Severe Weather News New forage plant prepares farmers for climate changes Posted: 04 Apr 2012 07:29 AM PDT Plant researchers have developed a new type of the corn-like crop sorghum, which may become very significant for food supplies in drought-prone areas. Unlike the conventional drought-resistant sorghum plant, which is an important crop in Africa, Continue Reading →