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Marine Vibrator Seismic Source replaces controversial air gun.
2015-07-20 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
As powerful as air gun, Distributed Seismic Source™ eliminates explosive blasting that has been blamed for harming whales, porpoises, and other marine life. DSS puts array of powerful sources downhole, each providing more than 2,400 lb of force at 200 Hz. Placing sources beneath near-surface weathering layer eliminates 95% or more of attenuation seen by surfaces sources. System can change how offshore seismic surveys are performed for exploration and production of oil and gas.
Rezoning for controversial Brightpoint project looks like a long shot
2015-07-14 07:22:43| Telecom - Topix.net
The vote won't come until Tuesday night, but the chance of City Council approving a controversial $8 million plan to renovate part of the former Taylor University campus on Rudisill Boulevard is looking like a long shot. With John Shoaff, D-at large already saying he intends to oppose Brightpoint's "Enterprise Pointe" project and Glynn Hines, D-6th, expected to abstain because he works for Brightpoint, five of the remaining seven council members would have to agree to rezone the site for the project to proceed.
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Climate change: Controversial 'cloud brightening' project proposed Moss Landing
2015-07-12 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mercury News: A team of elder Silicon Valley scientists is building an audacious device that might solve one of humanity's most profound dilemmas -- a "cloud whitener" designed to cool a warming planet. The men -- retired physicists, engineers, chemists and computer experts from some of Silicon Valley's top tech companies -- have been meeting four days a week for seven years in the Sunnyvale lab of the Marine Cloud Brightening Project to design a tool that creates perfectly suspended droplets of water resembling...
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Intelius sold to private equity firm; controversial founder Naveen...
2015-07-03 02:36:51| IT Services - Topix.net
Bellevue company Inome Inc. and its subsidiary, Intelius, have been sold to private equity firm H.I.G. for more than $100 million, according to tech news site GeekWire . Intelius was founded by controversial entrepreneur Naveen Jain , who also founded InfoSpace, which became the Bellevue company Blucora.
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Indonesia to revive controversial sugarcane plan in Aru?
2015-06-23 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Indonesian agriculture minister's recent comments that the Aru archipelago in the country's eastern waters will be one of three sites for a major new sugarcane initiative has sparked an outcry among civil society groups. Just last year, Aru, a cluster of around 90 islands in Indonesia's Maluku province, caught the national spotlight when Malaysia-based Menara Group acquired rights to three quarters of its 629,000 hectares as part of a massive plantation venture. Following a public outcry fueled...
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