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...want to take any more time away from their kids - their nine-year-old will have his own office on the set to do his homework, while the four-year-old will get a playroom. They're the kind of family that have an electric car and are building solar panels on the roof of their house to provide all the electricity. Vegas is taking bets on the method the children will use to rebel against their parents...
...JOHN BROWNE Energy executives and environmentalists were like oil and water until Browne, 53, changed the rules of engagement in a 1997 speech announcing a greener direction for BRITISH PETROLEUM. BP now limits its greenhouse-gas emissions and has invested $1 billion in solar-energy technology, becoming the world's largest photovoltaic manufacturer. At the same time, he has taken BP from near obscurity to the world's No. 3 oil company, buying competitors like Amoco and inspiring other execs to copy his formula for blending environmentalism and strong earnings...
CONSTELLATION PEGASUS This Place Has Atmosphere America?s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the Hubble telescope has detected the atmosphere of a planet beyond the solar system, 150 light years away. The discovery sparked hopes of finding extra-terrestrial life, since scientists believe a gaseous atmosphere may point to other life-forms. But the planet, about the size of Jupiter and circling a star in the constellation Pegasus, has an atmosphere loaded with sodium, nasa officials said, and would be too hot for life as we know...
Over the next three decades or so, BP's main shift will be to gas, says chief executive John Browne. While the company sees long-term potential in solar power and hydrogen fuel cells, it believes that these technologies are not yet commercially viable. (In an attempt to reduce the high manufacturing cost of solar panels, Shell and the Dutch coatings and chemicals firm Akzo Nobel are testing new techniques...
Meanwhile, the British government, which is committed to obtaining 10% of the country's electricity from renewable sources by 2010, continues to encourage development of wind, solar and wave power. Among 23 new solar roof projects, one will bring Northern Ireland its first solar panels. Scottish and Southern Energy, the country's largest generator of alternative energy, announced plans for a major investment in water and wind power programs, chiefly onshore wind turbines...