Fw: GNET Direct For Friday, September 3, 1999

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>Natural Insect Repellant in Tree Leaves Discovered

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>WASHINGTON, September 3, 1999 - Scientists have discovered that Spanish

cedar trees, economically important for the building and furniture

industries, contain naturally occurring substances that appear to repel a

leaf-eating insect pest.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8324

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>Shrinking Polar Ice Holds More than Just Water

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>SYRACUSE, NY, September 3, 1999 - The prediction for the long-term effects

of global warming are not very pretty - including the polar ice caps

melting, rising sea levels and coastal or low-lying areas being flooded or

entirely covered. Now another prediction can be added to that damage - the

unleashing of prehistoric viruses that are lying dormant in the ice.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8323

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>Over $8 Million Earmarked for Energy Efficiency Research

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>WASHINGTON, September 3, 1999 - ative agreements worth a total of

$8.2 million will benefit 19 building efficiency research and development

projects to help develop technologies such as electricity-producing fuel

cells, operationally dynamic window and wall systems, solid-state ceramic

lamps, and heat pump water heaters.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8322

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>Silicon Foam to be Used to Contain Chernobyl Radiation

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>WASHINGTON, September 3, 1999 - In order to prevent radioactive dust from

leaving the contaminated site at the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor, a patented

silicon geopolymer called EKOR foam will be used to contain the radiation.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8320

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>Rotting Vegetation Emitting Tremendous Amount of Greenhouse Gases

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>LONDON, September 3, 1999 - French Guiana is becoming one of the world’s

largest emitters of greenhouse gases because of rotting vegetation in the

Petit-Saut reservoir.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8319

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>Sea Turbines Harvest to the Wind’s Energy

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>LONDON, September 3, 1999 - Imagine giant wind turbines located off the

United Kingdom’s coast producing clean, renewable energy. By 2010 that may

become reality.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8316

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>California City First to Have All Electric Postal Fleet

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>HARBOR CITY, CA, September 3, 1999 - Residents in Harbor City, CA will no

longer have their mail delivered in the traditional gasoline-powered Postal

Service trucks but in environmentally clean electric powered vehicles.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8315

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>Northeast and Midwest States Reject Compromise

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>ALBANY, NY, September 3, 1999 - A compromise aimed at ending the battle

over air pollution between Northeast and Midwest states was rejected by both

sides Wednesday, meaning that the dispute will most likely be settled in

court, not at the bargaining table.

>http://www.gnet.org/Coldfusion/News_Page2.cfm?NewsID=8314

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