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Even as Washington is recasting the narrative of the Iraq war in terms of the troop withdrawal and campaign promises, Iraqi citizens say they’re still caught in the same old story of frustration and fear. U.S. combat troops have now left the country,...
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Tens of thousands of households are without power across Finland following a severe storm on Wednesday. It could take days for companies to restore power. This is the...
made popular Aug 5 2010
A massive power failure has plunged quake-ravage Chile into darkness, stretching 2,000km (1,250 miles) and affecting up to 90% of the population.
In Santiago thousands...
made popular Mar 15 2010
By Julius Barigaba
Kampala, February 10 2010
Here is the future: nice tarmac roads, fancy homes lit with electricity and well lit streets to boot, but you lot will...
made popular Feb 11 2010
William Kamkwamba dreamed of powering his village with the only resource that was freely available to him.
made popular Oct 10 2009
“Rationing is the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Rationing controls the size of the ration, one’s allotted portion of the...
made popular Oct 5 2009
The Aim of the previous Govt. was : Every village to be provided electricity; remaining 1,25,000 villages to be covered by 2009; 2.3 crore below poverty- line...
made popular Sep 29 2009
KOLKATA:
I leave my home 8:00am regularly for office (weekdays). After checking my mobile and handkerchief are with me, first thing I notice all street lights are still...
made popular Aug 19 2009
To the visitor it may seem picturesque. But when you’ve spent several hours a day for 20 years vigorously shaking a dead goat’s stomach filled with milk to...
made popular Jul 27 2009
An important measure has been ordered by the Senate Standing Committee on Water and Power, on Wednesday January 12th, i.e. directing the concerned authorities to...
made popular Jan 27 2009
Power companies are under increasing pressure to pass on the benefit of the plummeting price of oil.
Watchdogs are angry that domestic energy bills have continued to...
made popular Dec 6 2008
Recently identified electrical activity on Saturn’s largest moon bolsters arguments that Titan is the kind of place that could harbor life.At a brisk -350 degrees...
made popular Oct 29 2008
Rhode Island took a step toward reaching its goal of providing 15% of its electricity from wind power, when it awarded Deepwater Wind the contract to build a $1 billion...
made popular Oct 2 2008
An Oxford electrical engineer has come up with a refrigerator that runs without electricity. Not his own idea. He has based it on a model invented by Albert Einstein in...
made popular Sep 22 2008
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is increasing the load shedding hours substantially beginning Tuesday.
According to a report in Kantipur daily, due to closure of...
made popular Sep 11 2008
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has enforced new load shedding schedule effective from Wednesday.
According to new schedule, NEA will cut up the electricity 16.5 hrs...
made popular Aug 28 2008
In Nigeria today, one thing like no other is certain: Never Expect Power Always. Some have called those four words the most appropriate acronymn for the nation’s...
made popular Aug 18 2008
Climbing up the stairs would do more than just exercise and tone up your body. Two Chennai based dctors have claimed that electrcity can be made as one climbs up the...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Most drivers can’t imagine not having to change the oil in their cars or worry about spark plugs or catalytic converters, or most of all, filling up their tanks with...
made popular Aug 8 2008
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Great news on the power efficiency front: Scientists have invented a new material that can efficiently convert heat waste in cars, power generators, and heat pumps into...
made popular Jul 28 2008
elected areas of Asian cities including Taipei, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Seoul plan to turn off their lights for one hour later Saturday to promote energy...
made popular Jun 28 2008
THE answer to Zambia’s electricity crisis does not seem to be anywhere near.
I have followed with glee, how desperately the management of the local power utility firm...
made popular May 12 2008
Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear...
made popular Apr 3 2008
One of the main arguments of the present debate on energy is whether a nuclear energy program should be restarted or not. We can use the cases of Italy and France as a...
made popular Mar 25 2008
Using a nano-crystaline coating, scientists at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey have created an LED that produces attractive white light while wasting next-to-no...
made popular Mar 6 2008
Coal, touted as cheap and plentiful, has been a cornerstone of President Bush’s plans to meet America’s energy needs with dozens of new power plants. Burned...
made popular Jan 18 2008
The Niger Delta holds some of the world’s richest oil deposits, yet Nigerians living there are poorer than ever, violence is rampant, and the land and water are...
made popular Feb 8 2007
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Bangladeshi workers clean the glass of oil lamps at a workshop even as the country faces shortage of power supply, in Keranigonj, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Bangladesh authorities shut down operation and production of the...
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