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Heat wave, power cuts, riots in India

2014-06-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

SAPA: Thousands of people enraged by power cuts during an extreme heat wave rioted across northern India, setting electricity substations on fire and taking power company officials hostage, officials said Saturday. The impoverished state of Uttar Pradesh has never had enough power for its 200 million people - about the population of Brazil - and many receive only a few hours a day under normal conditions, while 63 percent of homes have no access to electricity at all. But recent temperatures that...

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NEWS & ANALYSIS: MEMS Clock Cuts Wearable Power in Half

2014-06-05 01:35:45| Wireless - Topix.net

Let's face it: Most of the time our mobile devices are idle. No matter how addicted you've become to checking for messages, surfing the web, listening to music, or playing games, most of the time it's waiting for you to activate it.

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Obama greenhouse-gas cuts splits power, coal industries

2014-05-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Bracing for greenhouse-gas rules from the Obama administration, two industries are staking out different positions. Coal companies are pledging to sue. Electric utilities are ready to talk. That split may give U.S. President Barack Obama a chance to rally support -- or at least blunt resistance -- to his plan, which is due June 2. Electric companies say they hope to convince Obamas aides that cuts in carbon emissions already achieved should count toward the goals in his plan, which could call...

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