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Focus Fusion: Has cheap, clean Earth-saving fusion power been right under our noses all along?
2014-06-12 19:26:18| Extremetech
While the world's only major fusion power effort -- ITER -- continues to trundle along, with an eventual first-fusion date of 2027 at a cost of more than $20 billion to taxpayers, there's a small lab in New Jersey that says it can produce fusion power within a year, with a total spend of just a few million dollars. To be honest it sounds too good to be true -- but rest assured that Focus Fusion, at least to my eyes, is the real deal. This isn't some kind of magical, inexplicable witchcraft like cold fusion: Focus Fusion appears to be based on cold, hard science. This could actually be it.
Eastern Europe a "cheap labour sewing backyard"
2014-06-11 17:38:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
As brands and retailers increasingly explore options for sourcing closer to home, it is perhaps inevitable that labour rights activists should now turn their attention to pay and conditions for garment workers in eastern Europe and Turkey.
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Not so cheap: Australia needs acknowledge the real cost of coal
2014-06-08 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: US President Barack Obamas latest plan to reduce carbon emissions is a welcome one, and not just because it addresses climate change. In publicising the plan to cut emissions from old coal power stations, Obama put the emphasis on health. Now it is time for Australia to do the same. Here we continue to ignore the real costs of coal, instead clinging to the myth that coal is cheap, justifying continuing expansion and subsidies for the industry. In the immediate wake of last months budget,...
Those cheap Chinese solar panels have a dirty little secret
2014-06-03 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: You want to save the world, but you still want to power that iPad, right? And you want to do it all on a budget? Chinas got your back then, right? Thats the place, after all, where theyre cranking out the cut-rate solar panels. Well, not so right, according to a new study by Northwestern University and the U.S. Department of Energy. Funny thing: It takes a lot of energy to turn silicon into solar panels, and if you get that energy from fossil fuels like coal, and inefficient coal plants at...
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UK, France consistently cheap for mobile communications
2014-06-03 11:06:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The United Kingdom and France, as well as Austria, Denmark and Sweden, are consistently cheap countries for mobile communications compared to other countries in Western Europe. Greece and Portugal on the other hand are relatively expensive for mobile consumers, according to the results of Telecompaper's EU Benchmark report for Q1 2014. Austria, Denmark, France, Sweden and the UK also emerged as relatively cheap for mobile communications in the previous EU Benchmark report, published at the end of last year. To these can now be added Finland, Norway and Sweden as countries where mobile consumers generally pay less in comparison to other Western European countries. Belgium, Germany and Italy, as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland display a mixed performance, with prices sometimes cheap or expensive, depending on the type of plan.
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