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Wind power led recovery
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'US Fed member deflation warning hints at policy shift' – you slept the last night the world moved just a little. A very hawkish governor of the US Federal ...

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It's fully blocked!

Google's China search is working just fine, despite breathless claims from countless news organizations that it's "fully blocked."…

RTT News
First Solar Quarterly Profit Drops as Own Project Development Increases
Bloomberg
First Solar Inc., the world's biggest maker of solar power modules, said second-quarter profit fell as ...
First Solar profit tops Street, trims sales viewReuters
First Solar 2Q Down 12% On Lower Prices; Shares DownWall Street Journal
First Solar profit falls nearly 12 percent in 2nd quarter, but company lifts ...CanadianBusiness.com
Barron's (blog) -TheStreet.com -Bizjournals.com
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Queen's University set to design fully submerged deepwater turbine
Irish Times
Tidal energy operates on the same principle as hydroelectricity or “underwater windmills”, in using tidal power to drive turbines that generate power. ...

thecarchik writes "The Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, first shown as a concept at this spring's Geneva Motor Show, got official approval as a production model today from the company's board of directors. Just consider the specs: a 500-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-8 engine with a 9200-rpm redline, 0-to-62-mph acceleration of 3.2 seconds, and top speed of 198 miles per hour. Oh, and did we mention it gets 78 miles per gallon on the European cycle? The astounding fuel efficiency comes courtesy of an E-Drive mode that lets the 918 Spyder drive up to 16 miles on pure electric power, though [ahem] not at 198 mph."

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Sydney Indymedia
Greens say Labor's solar ads dishonest
Sky News Australia
Greens Senator Christine Milne is demanding Labor stop using political ads that feature solar power in view of funding cuts that hit the alternative power ...
Pioneering Solar Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence loses research fundingSydney Indymedia

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Up to 4 million downloads

An Android wallpaper application that collected data from users' phones and uploaded it to a site in China was downloaded "millions of times", according to mobile security firm Lookout.…

Forever is a mighty long time

Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.…

DoJ doubles down on whistleblower suit

The US Department of Justice has filed a fresh lawsuit against Oracle, three months after intervening in a whistleblower suit that accuses the software giant of overcharging the government by "tens of millions of dollars."…

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spidweb writes "One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of PC games helps him. From the article: 'You don't get everything you want in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an honorable, ethical being. You don't get both. Most of the time. Because, when I'm being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of it, even when I'm the one being ripped off.' The article also tries to find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player PC games to continue to exist."

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Benzinga
First Solar profit tops Street, trims sales view
Reuters
By Matt Daily NEW YORK, July 29 (Reuters) - First Solar (FSLR.O) reported better-than-expected quarterly profits on Thursday, but trimmed its 2010 sales ...
First Solar 2Q Down 12% On Lower Prices; Shares DownWall Street Journal
First Solar profit falls nearly 12 percent in 2nd quarter, but company lifts ...CanadianBusiness.com
First Solar Q2 Tops Street Estimates; Ups Full Year Profit ViewBarron's (blog)
TheStreet.com -Bizjournals.com -RTT News
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Spain Nearing Plan to Cut Solar Subsidy 15%, Extend Payments Three Years
Bloomberg
The Spanish government and solar power producers are moving toward an agreement aimed at reducing ...
Spain Solar Plants Owners Face Probe Over SubsidiesBusinessWeek

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myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.'"

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'Job-one urgency'

FAM Microsoft's chief executive has come very close to telling investors he screwed up after years of writing off, belittling and underestimated Apple's potential success in touch-based computing.…

An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."

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Perl 6 may have been "finally coming within reach" in 2004, but now it's even closer. Reader rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation Rakudo Star has been released today for 'early adopters.' This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler releases in that is it bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are made. It is available for download at github.com."

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Ormat Names John Hancock Exclusive Debt Provider Under DOE Loan Guarantee ...
PR Newswire (press release)
The projects utilize Ormat's proprietary OEC technology, which is installed in approximately 1300 MW of geothermal power plants and other electricity ...

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RTT News
MEMC 2Q Profit Soars On Strong Sales; 2010 View Weak
Wall Street Journal
The maker of silicon wafers for the solar and semiconductor industries reinstated its stock-buyback program in May--after suspending it a year earlier--as ...
MEMC Q2 Light; Says 2010 Revs To Beat Old View, EPS To MissBarron's (blog)
MEMC sees increased sales, profits in quarter, but SunEdison unit takes hitPV-tech.org (blog)
SunEdison Drags MEMC Earnings DownTheStreet.com
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Benzinga
First Solar 2Q Down 12% On Lower Prices; Shares Down
Wall Street Journal
First Solar Inc.'s (FSLR) second-quarter profit slid 12% as lower selling prices and higher operating expenses hurt margins, although sales of the ...
First Solar profit beats, raises forecastReuters
First Solar Q2 Tops Street Estimates; Ups Full Year Profit ViewBarron's (blog)
First Solar Easily Beats; Hikes GuidanceTheStreet.com
Green Stocks Central -RTT News -Benzinga
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CodePwned writes "I recently took over a position at a rather large company where I discovered my group was paying $30 per gigabyte per month! That's $360 per year per gigabyte to our own IT department. While I understand costs are different depending on the scale, redundancy, backup and support methods, there doesn't seem to be any good papers on what range you should expect your costs to be. So far, my research shows an average of $1 per gigabyte or less for internally hosted space. What do you pay?"

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