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...World Bank’s Lighting Africa Competition 2008. He is a member of a team of Harvard students and alumni called Lebone Solutions—one of 16 groups to receive a $200,000 grant from the World Bank. The international competition encourages the development of low-cost technologies that could potentially provide off-grid lighting to over 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030. Lebone Solutions’ device, which has been in the works for eight months, is a microbial fuel cell-based lighting system that generates a current from the energy produced by metabolizing...
After targets, the big issue is cost. Where the Democrats want to make major emitters buy all their pollution permits at auction, McCain wants to give many of those permits away in the early years of the program. (So do Lieberman and Warner.) The idea is to reduce compliance costs for business, which is not a crazy idea for two reasons. First, the threat of huge new costs is one reason heavy industries don't support climate legislation. Second, those costs would inevitably be passed on to consumers. But despite generous use of free transitional permits, Lieberman-Warner hasn...
...Catalan water agency has contracted 10 vessels for the next six months to ferry water from the French port of Marseilles and from the Spanish regions of Tarragona and Andalusia. The boats are expected to deliver some 92 million cubic feet of water each month, at a total cost of $68 million...
...funeral procession inching its way along the narrow street in Qmatiyeh, a small village clinging to a mountainside overlooking Beirut. Handfuls of rice and pink and white rose petals hurled from windows and balconies shower the throng of mourners below. The funeral was a moment to absorb the human cost of the recent deadly clashes between Hizballah and the Lebanese government in which nearly 40 people are thought to have died. But it also generated a mix of seething anger, anxiety and an ominous feeling that more violence is to come...
...high mountain ridge in the southern Chouf on Sunday night. Hizballah held off the Israeli army for 33 days in summer 2006 and doubtless would prevail in a full battle with the Druze. But as both sides brace for more fighting, Hizballah's leaders may well ponder whether the cost is worth another round...