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The G8 Meltdown
Washington (UPI) June 04, 2007This week's Group of Eight summit in Germany may be the last, or almost the last of its kind. When this process began in the mid-1970s, the five founding members of the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Britain were without question the world's richest and most important industrial democracies. Italy and Canada were then brought into the process to make it the G7, and Russia in the ... more North Korea Reactor Resumes Operations 
Seoul (AFP) Jun 04, 2007North Korea's only nuclear reactor has resumed operations after suspending them briefly last month, South Korea's spy agency said Monday. The Yongbyon reactor, whose spent fuel rods produce atomic raw material to make bombs, "was shut down for about 10 days but resumed operations recently," a spokesman for the National Intelligence Service told AFP without elaborating. The five-megawatt plant ... more Foster-Miller Gets Big Boost In Contract For Talon Robots And Spares Parts For Iraq 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Foster-Miller announced that its IDIQ (indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity) contract from the Robotic Systems Joint Program Office administered by the Naval Air Warfare Training Systems Division (NAVAIR) has been increased from $63.9 million to $150 million to accommodate the purchase of additional TALON robots and replacement parts for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... more Northrop Grumman Wins Multi Billion Contract To Build New Amphibious Assault Ship LHA 6 
Pascagoula MS (SPX) Jun 05, 2007The U.S. Navy today awarded Northrop Grumman a $2.4 billion fixed-price incentive contract for the detail design and construction of the amphibious assault ship, LHA 6. Work will be performed primarily at the company's shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss., and ship delivery is scheduled for 2012. "This contract award reinforces the U.S. Navy's confidence that we have recovered from the effects of ... more Lockheed Martin Completes Significant System Design Milestone On TMOS Program 
San Jose CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Lockheed Martin has completed a successful System Design Review (SDR) of the TSAT Mission Operations System (TMOS) with the U.S. Air Force. The two-day event concluded the system review of TMOS architecture and requirements allocation for this critical element of the Global Information Grid. "The completion of the System Design Review marks a critical milestone for the program while building ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jun 04, 2007China said Monday it would not back efforts to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius, which UN experts have warned is the threshold-level to stop the worst impacts of climate change. "Whether or not we can set a limit on a two-degree (3.6 Fahrenheit) rise in temperature I'm afraid still lacks a lot of scientific evidence and dependable and feasible research," China's top economic planner M ... more A Sound Way To Turn Heat Into Electricity 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jun 05, 2007University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars. "We are converting waste heat to electricity in an efficient, simple way by using sound," says Orest Symko, a University of Utah physics professor who leads the e ... more GE Investing To Expland Wind Energy Portfolio 
Sweetwater TX (SPX) Jun 05, 2007GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of General Electric, has agreed to invest in its biggest wind farm, the 241-megawatt Sweetwater 4 facility, along with a sister project in Texas. The announcement was made today at Universal Studios California at GE's "Green is Universal" exhibition, a celebration of GE customers' improvements in operating and environmental performance. GE Energy Financ ... more Great River Energy Issues RFP Seeking Renewable Energy Resources 
Elk River MN (SPX) Jun 05, 2007Great River Energy has issued a request for proposals for renewable energy resources (RFP) and other power generation resources with low or no net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Great River Energy is subject to the Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard, which requires electric utilities to supply an increasing percentage of their energy sales from renewable energy, reaching 25 percent by 2025. ... more LPP Combustion Technology Proves That Renewable Soy-Based Biodiesel Can Burn as Cleanly as Natural Gas 
Columbia MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2007LPP Combustion has demonstrated that the patented LPP Combustion System will allow soybean oil-based biodiesel to burn as cleanly as natural gas, with no net greenhouse gas emissions. During testing this month, LPP Combustion obtained emissions of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter comparable to natural gas level emissions using a commercial "state-of-the-ar ... more |
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Washington (AFP) June 01, 2007US President George W. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race. "The Cold War is over. We're now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists ... and the threats of proliferation," Bush said in an ... more Gates Urges China To Explain Military Intentions 
Honolulu HI (AFP) Jun 01, 2007US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called on China Thursday to explain its intentions in undertaking a major military buildup that the Pentagon warns is altering the military balance in the region. "There is no question that the Chinese are building significant capacity," Gates said. "Our concern is over their intent." Gates spoke to reporters during a stopover here on his way to Singapore ... more Is The World In For A New Cold Age 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 04, 2007Today's strategic balance is an expression of the quantitative and qualitative alignment of forces with due account of the factors determining the strategic situation. Its parameters form a sophisticated dynamic system; nuclear, primarily strategic weapons are one of its elements. But the general condition of this system largely depends on its other elements. Thus, there is an inseparable ... more Russia's Aborted Star Wars 
Moscow (RIA Novosti ) Jun 04, 2007In the summer of 1957, the Soviet Union performed its first successful launch of Sergei Korolyov's R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), and in the fall the Earth received its first man-made satellite. But during that year the military primarily concentrated on launching a new fundamental anti-satellite project and developing an anti-missile defense. For purely technical reasons, the f ... more Boeing Wins Next Phase Of US Air Force Missile Technology Program 
St. Louis (SPX) Jun 04, 2007Boeing has been awarded a $4.2 million U.S. Air Force contract for the next phase of the Dual Role Air Dominance Missile -- Technology (DRADM-T) program, one of several efforts to develop technologies for the Joint Dual Role Air Dominance Missile (JDRADM). JDRADM is the first next-generation advanced missile intended to conduct both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions in a single weapon. ... more
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