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Drug Injury Watch: The Tale Of Merck’s Fake Medical Journal As Told At A Vioxx Trial In Australia
Drug Company Merck Paid Scientific Publisher Elsevier To Produce What Was Essentially A Marketing Publication For Vioxx And Fosamax in the guise of a peer reviewed journal
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Official Google Blog: Reducing our carbon footprint
In June 2007 Google made a voluntary commitment to become carbon neutral. To honor this commitment, we calculated our global carbon footprint, purchased high-quality carbon offsets, and worked with a third party to certify our calculations and validate our offset portfolio. Through this process, we’ve neutralized all of Google’s 2007 emissions, as well as part of our 2008 emissions. We’ll continue to invest in offset projects until we reach carbon neutrality.
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BusinessCar – Vauxhall Ampera:?All you need to know
General Motors’ Andreas Lassota speaks to Julian Rendell about the new Vauxhall Ampera, due on sale within three years, and details the brand’s plans for the electric-petrol vehicle
Raised the possibility of poss battery buyback!
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Breakthrough Solar Energy Technology from Israel – New Tang Dynasty Television
One year ago professor Feiman showed us his pilot plan for an innovative solar panel based on a simple concept: Replace large areas of expensive photovoltaic cells with inexpensive glass and concentrate sunlight onto a very small area of cells.
The Israeli startup Zenith Solar has now launched its first working power plan based on Feiman’s technology.
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In the coming decades, several global developments will create new challenges for humankind. Climate change, population growth far beyond earth’s capacities, and a striving for prosperity that is invariably connected to a continually increasing demand for energy and water are the core problems with which we are confronted.
The DESERTEC Concept describes a way to solve these challenges.
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The Green Bus Rush: Why Innovators Are Moving Into Transit Tech
Transit buses may seem an unlikely sector to ever warrant the term “hot,” but a growing number of startups working on next-gen hybrid and electric vehicle technology are looking to buses as a way to weather the downturn and capitalize on shifts in the global economy. With demand for consumer vehicles in the tank, the bus market, buoyed by stimulus funds in the U.S. and a government push for electric buses in China, is one of the more attractive games for clean vehicles in town.
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McKinsey: What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme
First, we need to trust our science. We do this every time we fly in a jet or rush to the doctor in hope of relief from illness; but now there is some cherry-picking of science going on in the various kinds of resistance to the news about climate change, and this double standard needs to be called out. The so-called climate change skeptics are now simply in denial. All science is skeptical, and the scientific community has looked at this situation and found compelling evidence for anyone with an open mind. Science is telling us that if we keep living the way we do, we will trigger an unstoppable and irreversible climate change that may de-ice the planet and acidify the oceans, causing mass extinction.
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PHOTOS: Renault Unveils Revised Electric “Kangoo Z.E.” Prototype
For those following the ever-expanding Renault-Nissan Alliance, here’s a glimpse of what you’ve been waiting for: the basic prototype for Renault’s upcoming electric vehicles
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MARS is a lighter-than-air tethered wind turbine that rotates about a horizontal axis in response to wind, generating electrical energy. This electrical energy is transferred down the 1000-foot tether for immediate use, or to a set of batteries for later use, or to the power grid. Helium sustains MARS and allows it to ascend to a higher altitude than traditional wind turbines.
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