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Michigan Looks To Miya and Israeli Water Expertise To Create Green Jobs

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The International Renewable Energy Agency Convenes in Sharem, Sinai, Next Month

Seventy-nine countries will send delegates to Sharem el Sheikh, Sinai next month to inaugurate the first session of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)....

Ormat News and 9 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, Week of May 10, 2009

During the week of May 10, 2009, Ormat, a geothermal company, announced its plans to build a plant in Indonesia and Globes reported that...

Aora Makes The Desert Bloom With Sunshine Flower Power

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California's PG&E Signs Historic Solar Energy Contract With BrightSource Energy, for Solar Power

The deal is to provide power to more than half a million homes: Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that it has...

Seeing Water Pollution With Snake's Eyes

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Saudi Arabia Opens World's Largest Desalination Plant

Saudi Arabia has always had an acute fresh water shortage problem. The problem has been so severe that a proposal was once considered to...

ZenithSolar and 10 Israel-Related Cleantech Headlines, From Week of May 3, 2009

During the week of May 3, 2009, Israel's two biggest cleantech stories were about a BusinessWeek feature, which provided an overview of the sector...

Win The $1.5 Million Zayed Future Energy Prize

Once again, in the UAE Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, the Zayed Future Energy Prize contest is open for entries on new and innovative...

Forget Submarines, Send In The Robotic Octopus Instead

Explore where no man has gone before, with tentacles? Now building the world's first robotic octopus, and the world's first soft-bodied robot, Israeli "octopus"...

ZenithSolar – The Most Efficient Solar Energy Collector In The World?

(ZenithSolar's Jetson-style sunshine-collecting DPV –  concentrating photovoltaic – dishes in the Negev Desert) As the old saying goes: necessity is the mother of invention. And nothing...

VIDEO: The American University of Beirut In Lebanon Fights For Sustainable Research Through ISBAR

This documentary film describes the activities of IBSAR, an interfaculty center at the American University of Beirut dedicated to nature conservation and sustainable research. According...

David Faiman’s CPV Solar Power Launched By Zenith Solar (VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8mXDsGiiu4 There has been a lot of hype around Zenith Solar lately in Israel, where they've publicly launched their new solar power technology in Kibbutz...

Israel's Emefcy and AquaPure Make it into Artemis Top 50 Water Companies

The Jerusalem Post website is reporting that six Israeli companies made it into the water consultancy firm, The Artemis Project's first Top 50 Water Companies Competition...

Will The Middle East Heed Al Gore's Latest Cry?

(Melting like crazy: compare image of arctic ice cap from 1979 to that from 2003. Something seem off to you?) Last year he was in...

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Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.

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Unlike most recordings from this era, which were lost as early media deteriorated, the audograph discs survived and appear to have been uniquely used for underwater sound — making them a rare, possibly singular example of early ocean listening preserved from the dawn of marine acoustics.

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Australian camels fly on a plane to Saudi Arabia

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