News in English
Июнь
2024

Новости за 27.06.2024

The Punch 

Three ex-soldiers, 10 others arraigned for alleged robbery

A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has begun a trial of three soldiers and 10 others over alleged armed robbery, burglary and receiving stolen property. The suspects were arraigned by the Nigeria Police Force on charges of armed robbery, burglary and receipt of stolen property. The Rivers State Police Command had in

Читать дальше...

Energy-daily.com 

Sri Lanka's creditors demand deal details; Fitch downgrades Maldives, warns of default

Colombo (AFP) June 27, 2024
Sri Lanka's bilateral lenders who agreed to restructure close to $6 billion in loans have demanded "comparability of treatment" with other creditors, including China. The Official Creditor Committee (OCC), led by Japan, France and India, have requested details of Colombo's other debt deals, a statement seen by AFP on Thursday read. The grouping agreed in Paris on Wednesday to restructure

Energy-daily.com 

All major US banks pass Fed's 2024 'stress test'

Washington (AFP) June 26, 2024
All 31 big US banks have passed the Federal Reserve's annual "stress test" designed to assess how well they would fare in a major financial crisis, the US central bank said Wednesday, while warning that losses would be higher than last year. The stress test was broadly similar to last year, the Fed said in a statement, and modeled a severe global recession which caused a 40 percent decline i

Energy-daily.com 

Malaysia seizes 106 illegal e-waste containers

Kuala Lumpur (AFP) June 27, 2024
Malaysia has seized 106 containers of dangerous electronic waste over the last three months and busted an illegal waste import syndicate after a tip-off from a watchdog group, a minister said. Tens of millions of tons of e-waste are produced globally every year, and many discarded devices and appliances can leak heavy metals, plastics and other toxic chemicals. Many countries, including

Energy-daily.com 

Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years

Paris (AFP) June 26, 2024
A pioneering internet messaging service that once boasted 100 million accounts has shut down, a message on the Russian-owned ICQ website said Wednesday. ICQ - styled to sound like "I seek you" - was developed by a group of Israeli programmers in 1996 as a way for users to text chat in real-time, a novelty in the mid-1990s. Early internet giant AOL snapped it up in 1998 and it grew into

Energy-daily.com 

Precision instrument bolsters efforts to find elusive dark energy

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Dark energy - a mysterious force pushing the universe apart at an ever-increasing rate - was discovered 26 years ago, and ever since, scientists have been searching for a new and exotic particle causing the expansion. Pushing the boundaries of this search, University of California, Berkeley physicists have now built the most precise experiment yet to look for minor deviations from the acce

Energy-daily.com 

Solar to be Vatican's sole energy source, pope orders

Vatican City (AFP) June 26, 2024
Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to install a solar plant that will provide electricity to the entire city state, as the pontiff does his bit to tackle climate change. Francis, a longtime advocate of environmental protection, issued an official letter published Wednesday demanding the establishment of an "agrivoltaic" plant in Santa Maria di Galeria, an extraterritorial area of Vatican l

Energy-daily.com 

NASA-IBM team up for large language models for advanced research

Washington DC (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Collaborations with private, non-federal partners through Space Act Agreements are a key component in the work done by NASA's Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team (IMPACT). A collaboration with International Business Machines (IBM) has produced INDUS, a comprehensive suite of large language models (LLMs) tailored for the domains of Earth science, biological and physical sciences

Energy-daily.com 

In Aberdeen, climate and energy take centre stage in UK election

Aberdeen, United Kingdom (AFP) June 27, 2024
In Europe's oil and gas "capital", Aberdeen, voters are apprehensive about Labour's plans for combatting climate change if the opposition party wins next month's UK general election as expected. Labour scaled back its green investment pledges under pressure from the ruling Conservatives about how it would fund them, but still promises to make Britain a "clean energy superpower". The spee

Energy-daily.com 

Small Changes Yield Major Advances in Materials Research

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
A minor adjustment can lead to significant advancements, as demonstrated by researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). The team developed a material known as "spin-orbit torque (SOT)," gaining attention in the field of next-generation DRAM memory. Led by Professor Daesu Lee and PhD candidate Yongjoo Jo from the Department of Physics, alongside Professor Si-Young

Energy-daily.com 

Framatome secures EU funding for 100% European fuel development

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Framatome has obtained financial support from the European Union to advance the development and supply of a completely sovereign European fuel for VVER pressurized water reactors in Europe. The funding, part of the Euratom Research and Training Programme, will provide EUR 10 million to the Framatome Safe and Alternative VVER European Project - known as the "SAVE" project - for VVER 440 fue

Energy-daily.com 

Startup aims to transform the power grid with superconducting transmission lines

Boston MA (SPX) Jun 27, 2024
Last year in Woburn, Massachusetts, a power line was deployed across a 100-foot stretch of land. Passersby wouldn't have found much interesting about the installation: The line was supported by standard utility poles, the likes of which most of us have driven by millions of times. In fact, the familiarity of the sight is a key part of the technology's promise. The lines are designed to tra

Energy-daily.com 

Lufthansa to add environmental charge to fares

Frankfurt, Germany (AFP) June 25, 2024
German airline giant Lufthansa said Tuesday it would add an environmental charge of up to 72 euros ($77) to fares in Europe to cover the cost of increasing EU climate regulations. The extra cost will be added to all flights sold and operated by the group departing from EU countries as well as Britain, Norway and Switzerland, it said in a statement. It will apply to flights from January