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Abengoa completes worlds largest single-axis photovoltaic plant
2014-05-22 01:00:00| Power Technology
Abengoa has completed a 206MW solar PV plant, which is claimed to be the worlds largest single-axis photovoltaic plant, in south-east California.
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With a $6 million prize fund, Dota 2 is now one of the worlds biggest sports
2014-05-21 20:45:20| Extremetech
Valve's annual Dota 2 tournament -- The International -- is now one of world's biggest sporting events. Thanks to the Valve's most excellent shepherding of both the game and the 5-versus-5 MOBA genre, an ingenious crowdfunding scheme, and the continuing growth of spectator esports, The International now has a total prize fund of over $6 million. The winning team will take home somewhere in the region of $3 million. To put that into perspective, that's more than all but the top sports professionals take home in a year. How did Dota 2, which only left beta testing last year, become one of the world's biggest sports in the world?
World's 'first' community-owned tidal energy device powers up
2014-05-21 01:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The world's first community-owned tidal power turbine has started producing electricity for the local grid. The turbine will power up to 30 homes, a locally owned ice plant, and Cullivoe Harbour Industrial Estate on Yell, in the Shetland Islands. The turbine is fixed on the seabed at a depth of more than 100ft and is designed to turn as the tide flows past it, driving a generator and producing electricity that is transmitted onshore via a 1km-long subsea table. It has been developed by Leith-based...
Drought, hurricane bigger threat to worlds top companies
2014-05-18 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Drought, hurricanes and rising seas are becoming more significant threats to the worlds biggest companies and the risk is accelerating, according to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Companies planning for various threats related to climate change say theyre grappling now with about 45 percent of the potential risks, or will be within five years, according to a report issued today by the London-based non-profit group. Thats up from 2011, when members of the Standard and Poors 500 Index expected...
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Has Germany Subsidized The Worlds Now-Cheap Solar Power?
2014-05-16 19:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: One of the most curious memes that has developed over the last few years is that the US leads the world in tackling carbon emissions. Without as much as a breath this is typically followed by a sentence with the word fracking. But if you actually look at the data you can see declining oil use was as big a driver in the cuts. Looking at data has a nasty habit of skewering memes you see. US carbon emissions fell by 12.1% between 2005 and 2012 (see above). Over the same period in the EU28 emissions...
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