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Casey Agena

Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear - Hawaii News - Staradvertiser.com - 1 views

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     The wall of water raced through narrow Himalayan gorges in northeast India, gathering speed as it raked the banks of towering trees and boulders. When the torrent struck their island in the Brahmaputra river, the villagers remember, it took only moments to obliterate their houses, possessions and livestock. No one knows exactly how the disaster happened, but everyone knows whom to blame: neighboring China.
Chai Reddy

Pass the Boone Pickens Bill - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • an actual bipartisan piece of legislation — its official title is the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act, or the Nat Gas Act, for short. People in the know, however, call it the Boone Pickens bill
  • that the country’s energy salvation depends on moving away from the fuel we don’t have — namely, oil, where imports, some of which come “from our enemies” (to quote Boone), account for two-thirds of our oil needs. Instead, we should move to a fuel we have in abundance: natural gas.
  • Boone’s convinced that modern drilling techniques will allow us to find enough for several centuries.
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  • The Pickens plan calls for increased use of wind, solar, nuclear, even coal. ”I’m for anything that’s American,” he said.
  • The Pickens bill creates tax incentives — $1 billion a year for five years — to encourage manufacturers to begin building heavy-duty trucks that will be powered by natural gas instead of diesel. It also gives some tax incentives to truck-stop owners who install natural gas filling stations to help create the infrastructure
  • Of the 20 million barrels of oil we use each day, 70 percent goes for transportation fuel. The 8 million heavy-duty trucks on the road today account for 23 percent of that fuel. Although the tax incentives in the Pickens bill would be enough to cover only about 140,000 new trucks, he hopes that it will catapult the industry toward natural gas even without the subsidies.
  • Natural gas is cheaper than oil. It’s cleaner.
Intesab Husain

Ceiling Mount PIR Occupancy Sensor For Laboratory And R&D Centre | PAMMVI - 0 views

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    Steinel German quality 230v 50Hz PIR occupancy sensor and presence detector for Laboratory and R&D centre
Intesab Husain

Wall Mounted Passive Infrared - PIR Motion Sensor Lights For Outdoor And Garden Areas |... - 0 views

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    Wall mounted Passive Infrared PIR motion sensor LED lights and energy saving lamps for outdoor and garden areas
Intesab Husain

Microprocessor Based Photoelectric Sensor - Lux Sensor And Lux Switch For Lighting Load... - 0 views

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    Photocell lux detector for exterior street lighting for automatic lighting control and energy savings.
Casey Agena

Marine Corps to open first station for ethanol blended fuel - 0 views

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    The Marine Corps said it will host a ribbon cutting tomorrow for the first "E85" fueling station in Hawaii that utilizes a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.
Casey Agena

China's Push Into Wind Worries U.S. Industry - 0 views

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    They are also the only three Chinese-made wind turbines operating in the United States. That could soon change, though, as Goldwind and other Chinese-owned companies plan a big push into the American wind power market in coming months.
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