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Wind power throws a curve at the BPA

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

OregonLive.com - Jul. 22 (News Report) - Utility wonks have been quipping for years that the future of energy in the Northwest is windy and gassy. When it comes to wind power, the future has already arrived, a reality that has come rushing home in the past two years and created major friction among the Bonneville Power Administration, wind power producers and the agency's utility customers.

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Boeing 787 may not fly this year

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Dominic Gates - Jul. 22 (News Report) - The structural flaw that delayed the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner is more complex than originally described by the company, and the plane's inaugural takeoff is likely at least four to six months away, say two engineers with knowledge of Boeing's problem.

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Seeking a Safer Surgery

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Laura Landro - Jul. 21 (Special Report) - Doctor’s offices in states with no regulation may perform surgery solely under the medical license of the physician with no formal licensing or accreditation requirements. Some doctors choose to be voluntarily accredited by one of three agencies that perform the inspections, but the process can cost several thousand dollars.

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How Should Government Spur Small Business Innovation?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Robb Mandelbaum - Jul. 23 (Opinion) - With health care reform and economic recovery sucking up so much of what little oxygen circulates in Washington, you’ll have to forgive The Agenda for only now turning to the Small Business Innovation Research program, which is set to expire on July 31st unless Congress acts to reauthorize it.

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40 Years After Apollo 11, NASA Maps Out the Future

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Alexis Madrigal - Jul. 20 (Special Report) - Forty years ago, NASA put a man on the moon. What does the next 40 years hold for the world's premiere space agency?

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Light Repels Light

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MIT Technology Review - By Anne-Marie Corley - Jul. 20 (News Report) - The repulsive side of an optical force could lead to ultra-fast telecommunications.

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Charity or collaboration?

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Buzzmachine - By Jeff Jarvis - Jul. 22 (Opinion) - The New York Times has accepted free stories from ProPublica. It has endorsed a journalist getting help from the public via Spot.US to underwrite a story that might appear at NYTimes.com. And Poynter’s Bill Mitchell says the paper is even wondering about foundation support for its work (but for perspective, I suspect one could safely

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Shield Law Overturns Warrant for Student Photographer

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Brendan Seibel - Jul. 23 (News Report) - A San Francisco Superior Court recognizes journalistic entitlements of a student photojournalist who invoked shield law. The decision strengthens support for freelance photographers and journalists who want to protect their sources and notes.

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Group to push open source in U.S. government

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Computerworld - By Grant Gross - Jul. 23 (News Report) - Open-source software needs a higher profile in Washington, D.C., according to a group of about 70 organizations and companies that launched a new campaign to educate U.S. government agencies about the benefits of open source.

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For Mars Rover, Roadside Assistance

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Robert Lee Hotz - Jul. 20 (Special Report) - On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers who are struggling to extricate it by remote control.

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U.S. Firms Set to Jump-Start an Industry for Electric-Car Batteries

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Steven Mufson - Jul. 25 (News Report) - The Energy Department is getting ready to hand out about $2 billion in grants to create a domestic industry for electric-car batteries, and 122 companies are scrambling to get pieces.

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Europe Eyes Africa for Solar Power

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Paul Voosen - Jul. 24 (Special Report) - European government and industry have been eyeing tracts of sun-drenched, vacant land in North Africa and the Middle East for some time. And now, officials and business executives are beginning to sweat out the details that could see renewable power sprouting in the desert.

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The Grave Dancer’s Folly

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Columbia Journalism Review - Jul. 22 (Editorial) - Despite the tedious posturing of both Web triumphalists (Jeff Jarvis to the Newspaper Association of America: “You blew it!”) and ideologues on either end of the political spectrum (two recent reader comments on CJR.org: “The mainstream media has sold out to our corporate controlled Congress,” and “Newspapers deserve to die like Pravda and Izveztia [sic]”), nobody is winning the debate...

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Nissan's plug-free electric car

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Bibi van der Zee, Adam Vaughan - Jul. 21 (News Report) - Nissan has developed a revolutionary plug-free technology that it claims will make charging electric cars easier and faster. The wireless charging system is based on the concept of inductive charging, the same electromagnetic field technology used to charge an electric toothbrush. Nissan has scaled it up for use in their Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) electric car, which can charge in a compatible parking bay without the need for wires. Today's electric car owners, by contrast, have to carry a mains plug aboard to recharge.

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Boeing: The Wrong Way to Manage Innovation

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

blogs.bnet.com - By Sean Silverthorne - Jul. 24 (Investigative Report) - now, nearly two years behind schedule, it turns out Boeing got it mostly wrong. The Dreamliner has gone through a series of delays getting to first flight, most recently in June when structural problems were discovered where the wing is attached to the fuselage.

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Why NASA's Moon Landing is the Wrong Model for Science in America

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Root - By Dayo Olopade - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - “We are attempting to develop major new systems with ten-year technology, eight-year programs, a five year plan, three-year people, and one-year dollars,” he wrote. What’s more, large, corporate contractors dominate the federal procurement process —hiking up the costs of aerospace technology for taxpayers. The consequences of this lax management can be both embarrassing and deeply wasteful: It took engineers six costly tries to get the shuttle Endeavor, carrying the last Japanese pieces of the International Space Station, into orbit last week.

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As Media Grow, FCC Looks Ahead

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Cecilia Kang - Jul. 20 (News Report) - Julius Genachowski, President Obama's pick to lead the Federal Communications Commission, has a soft spot for the little guy.

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