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at over $200,000

and shipment will be made

in March.

trapping

gas, rose 1.1%

10.2%

The pipeline

project

wells, a reservoir,

consists

main

station

and main control

power

six repeaters

pipeline.

a booster

project

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the modules

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have covered

such a large area in Japan.

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the

Japan (NASDA) has full-scale tested a Tsubasa

module

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experimental

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and Industry retailers

(METI)

from

amounts

of Economy,

testing

2003

to

sell

of energy generated

by solar, wind

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according

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watched

to see how they will function

METI

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submit,

to obrain

cabinet

to the ongoing measures

power utilities,

approval

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to

a bill on

for the use of new energy ministry

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legislation

by

said.

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to 3.2%

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to attain

in fiscal 2010,

as part of Japan’s

its greenhouse

gas reduction

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pany, the ministry

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will urge or order failing firms

to meet these targets

and fine them

up to Ylm

if they fail to comply. retailers,

increase

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of

other

energy

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than

estimates

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satellite,

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orbit.

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Japanese

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continues

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more data on the is to

market

plans

to ratify

that

this year,

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requires

gases by 6% from

1990

in mineral carbon

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first

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strain

oil and can

to

nutrients and

air

aeration.

using

solar

The panels,

to save costs.

Photovoltaic system award Kobe Steel’s photovoltaic

the New Energy Foundation

Chairman

Kawasaki

installed

The second installed

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Photovoltaics Bulletin

of heat-

Kobe, western Japan.

were

(New Energy

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high The

school’s electricity and

jointly

funded

and Industrial

Organisation)

with

Technology

as

part

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its

Use PV Field Test Program.

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Prize

Netherlands’ Nuon in three-way deal to solar

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of

770 m2

at the school.

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in the Prefecture

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basis.

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selected for the prize because of an innovative

energy

Kyoto

3037.

system has received

from the New Energy Foundation,

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clean electricity

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generated

improve

are powered

conditioning,

air conditioning

system

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in Yachiyo

club’s utility

in

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the country

of

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has delivered and

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over

a sprinkler

Kinki Co Ltd.

Prefecture, Japan.

necessary,

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Homes

Construction

and a 70 kW PV system to Yachiyo

bioremediation

soil, the bacteria

using

as a

sites.

dioxide

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is

a 20 kW PV rooftop system to

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systems

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oil into

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firms

helps cut

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generated. pact

energy

tpa. The building

Boeki, and Kobe Steel received

Eco-Tech

Prefecture,

generators,

certificates,

from

of 25 electric

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the order through

commissioned

and solar

to petrochemical-related

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decompose

contractor

tests and collect but

of bacteria

owned by Minami

of 76 kW,

requirements

by 10 metric

roof to generate

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technology

power

output

Evergreen Solar’s Japanese marketing partner,

group, Ueki Corp has

a low-cost

contaminated

run outdoor

output

has a total

Kawasaki Heavy Industries,

developed

technique,

CO,

system

an

the Van Allen

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into

either

retailers,

will issue

international

to cut greenhouse

however,

by each firm.

for two years, for every

renewable

for new

with their own facilities,

from

surplus

exchangeable

Japan

achieve

new energy

or buying

targets

eight years as the basis

target calculations

generating buying

normal

base. has

the soil by supplying will set the aggregate

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kg,

means of redeveloping

METI

to 100 by FY 2010,

six

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how

electricity

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ground

orbit

and

solar batteries’

consumes, 480

make

errors

generators.

target under the Kyoto protocol.

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memories

agency’s

elliptical

in space.

will keep track of how many

of the built-in

weighing

parts are being closely

at tripling

the fiscal I 999 ratio of new energy to total power

($8000)

the

are

for one year.

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the satellite’s

working

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plans to oblige power

FY

shows

semiconductor

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satellite launched by its second

commercial

the sateliite The Japanese

Space Development

wall

is 1,035 mm by

the

of about

water

floors, surface.

and two top lights are

from the third to the ninth

from

a distance

brings

length

system covers three walls in a

wall arrangement

on the roof. Running

center. Solar panels will the

The PV module curtain

across

wells,

The

to stand

of 9 deep-water

powerhouse,

along

in FY 2000

above the fiscal 1990 level.

building

in

pay

production

exchange,

Green

Lake Metroparks

Mountain

Energy

of solar panel electricity

for at the

park agency’s Lake Farmpark in Kirtland.

April 2002