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Australia's cities getting hotter by 3.7 degrees
2013-07-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business Times: Some areas of Australia's cities will be up to 3.7 degrees hotter by 2050 due to the growth of urbanisation according to new research data. Australia will experience the "urban heat island effect" in which temperatures will rise in built-up areas with more asphalt and concrete. Researchers from the University of NSW say the rising temperatures will enhance the effects of climate change. Lead author of the study Daniel Argueso says if a person lives near the edge of the city, a change in temperature...
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Australia's NBN Co meets revised roll-out target
2013-07-05 02:14:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The Australian company rolling out the National Broadband Network, NBN Co, has met its revised rollout targets for the financial year ended 30 June. The company's fibre network passed 207,500 premises, meeting the target of 190,000 to 220,000 premises passed. The company also covered 27,300 premises with fixed-wireless services and 250,000 premises with satellite services, bringing the total premises passed by the network to 484,800. NBN Co also reported a more than fourfold increase in the total number of end-users over the past twelve months and a sevenfold increase in fibre users. The total number of activated premises reached 70,100, which includes 33,600 fibre users, 1,900 fixed-wireless users, and 34,600 satellite users.
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Australia's NBN hits downgraded rollout target
2013-07-04 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Fibre network coverage reaches 207,500 premises, uptake passes 70,000.
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June's top stories: Australia's HATS contract, India floats tender for SSR
2013-07-04 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Australia has shortlisted bidders for the HATS programme while India has issued a surface surveillance radar tender and the US NRL has developed a PEEK-like phthalonitrile-resin. Naval-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from May 2013.
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Algae.Tec Signs Carbon Capture Biofuels Deal With Australia's Largest Coal-Fired Power Company
2013-07-03 06:46:28| pollutiononline News Articles
In what is understood to be a world first, Algae.Tec (ASX: AEB, OTCQX: ALGXY) has signed a deal with Australia's largest power company to site an algae carbon capture and biofuels production facility alongside a 2640MW coal-fired power station near Sydney
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