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Investors Are The Key To Solving The World's Water Problems
2013-04-01 16:36:52| Agriculture - Topix.net
Women in a district facing a drinking water shortage wait with plastic pots at a community tube well to collect drinking water in Bangalore on October 8, 2012.
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Worlds first petaflop supercomputer is obsolete after just five years, will be shut down
2013-04-01 13:31:49| Extremetech
IBM Roadrunner, which was the world's fastest supercomputer as recently as June 2009, and the first supercomputer to hit 1 petaflop, is now obsolete and has been shut down. At a cost of $120 million and with a lifetime of just five years, you might accuse the Department of Energy of wastefulness -- but shutting down Roadrunner is actually a thrifty, cost-saving measure.
IMF calls for world's $1.9tr fossil fuel subsidies to be removed
2013-03-28 12:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: Removing worldwide fossil fuel subsidies worth $1.9tr would have "major gains for economic growth and the environment" the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said yesterday. A study by the international body estimates support for products from coal to petrol equate to around 2.5 per cent of global GDP and account for roughly eight per cent of all government revenues. It shows that 20 countries maintain pre-tax energy subsidies that exceed five per cent of their GDP. "For some countries the fiscal...
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GE Prototype Of World's Most Efficient High-Output Wind Turbine Operational At European Test Site
2013-03-28 10:30:00| dairynetwork News Articles
GE announced recently that a prototype of the world’s most efficient high-output wind turbine, the new 2.5-120, is operational at a test site in Wieringermeer, Netherlands
GE Prototype of World's Most Efficient High-Output Wind Turbine Operational at European Test Site
2013-03-28 05:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
• New Brilliant Wind Turbine Analyzes Tens of Thousands of Data Points Every Second for Better Wind Management<br /> • 2.5-120 Prototype Fully Operational at Netherlands Test Facility<br /> • Design to Undergo Testing and Validation through Fall 2013<br /> <br /> WIERINGERMEER, NETHERLANDS—GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that a prototype of the world’s most efficient high-output wind turbine, the new 2.5-120, is operational at a test site in Wieringermeer, Netherlands. ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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