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Mojave (United States)

Type: City
Name: Mojave (United States)
Country: United States
Latitude: 35.052502
Longitude: -118.174004
population: 3,929
First Reported Mar 04 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Stuart Staniford: The US in a High Emissions Scenario

Given that emissions are growing faster than the IPCC has studied, that the world has been unwilling or unable to agree on any meaningful global treaty, with the largest emitters, China and the United States, in particular unwilling to make any meaningful ... [Published Mar 04 2010 by Peak Oil]
First Reported Mar 03 2010 - Updated Mar 03 2010 - 1 Documents

Can Tax Incentives Bring Back Manufacturing to California?

The Energy Commission has $95 million more in incentives. And Governor Arnold is developing his own spiffs too.California might be expensive and highly regulated, but the state continues to try to woo manufacturers to tax credits and other incentives ... [Published Mar 03 2010 by Greentech Media]
First Reported Mar 03 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Virgin Galactic lures more GCC space tourists

VIP guests (foreground) watch as Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo (center) slung beneath White Knight Two, the twin-fuselage mother ship that will carry SpaceShipTwo to launch altitude is unveiled on Dec. 7, 2009 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, ... [Published Mar 03 2010 by Maktoob Business]
First Reported Mar 01 2010 - Updated Mar 01 2010 - 1 Documents

The US in a high emissions scenario

Number of days annually over 100oF in the recent past, and under high emissions in 2080-2099 according to p90 of Global Climate Change Impacts in the United StatesSo, I ended up spending much of my weekend going through Global Climate Change Impacts in ... [Published Mar 01 2010 by Energy Bulletin]
First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

The Weekly: News from Around the Matter Network

' BrightSource Energy has trimmed its proposal for a solar-concentration plant in the Mojave Desert by 12 percent, in hopes the concession will mollify the project's critics. The Brightsource installation has pit advocates of clean energy against those ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Reuters]
First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 20 2010 - 1 Documents

NASA Ponies Up for Commercial Suborbital Space Rides

Even at $200,000 a ticket, the lines for a suborbital ride into space may soon be growing longer. The U.S. government is proposing to spend $75 million over the next five years to send science experiments -- and presumably scientists -- into space.“For ... [Published Feb 19 2010 by Discovery Channel]
First Reported Feb 15 2010 - Updated Feb 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Magnitude-4.1 quake shakes California desert

COSO JUNCTION, Calif.A magnitude-4.1 earthquake has shaken California's eastern desert, one of many small temblors that have struck the state in recent days.The Inyo County Sheriff's Department says there are no reports of injury or damage from the Sunday ... [Published Feb 15 2010 by San Jose Mercury News]
First Reported Feb 12 2010 - Updated Feb 13 2010 - 1 Documents

Solar Under Attack from…

One of the most ambitious solar thermal projects ever attempted in the U.S. will be shrunk by around 12 percent due to concerns about the habitat of the desert tortoise.BrightSource Energy will reduce the size of the proposed Ivanpah plant from 440 megawatts ... [Published Feb 12 2010 by Greentech Media]
First Reported Dec 07 2009 - Updated Dec 07 2009 - 1 Documents

Park Avenue Travel's Joshua Bush, Local Accredited Space Agent to Witness World Premiere of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

SWARTHMORE, Pa., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Joshua Bush, CTA, vice president of Park Avenue Travel, one of only 50 travel consultants in the United States to have been hand-selected as a Virgin Galactic Accredited Space Agent (ASA), will attend the world ... [Published Dec 07 2009 by Auto & Transportation]
First Reported Dec 02 2009 - Updated Dec 02 2009 - 1 Documents

Covington International Travel Adds 'Accredited Space Agent' To Its Specialties

RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Karen Kilyk of Covington International Travel in Virginia, a member of the prestigious Virtuoso® travel network, is among only 50 U.S. travel advisors invited to attend the world premier of SpaceShipTwo, the space ... [Published Dec 02 2009 by Auto & Transportation]
First Reported Oct 18 2009 - Updated Oct 18 2009 - 1 Documents

Renewable energy projects threaten some of California’s rarest plants

The proposed construction of massive wind and solar energy projects on public land in the California desert would hasten destruction and further fragment land that is home to 17% of state’s rarest plants, botanists said Saturday. “Most of the ... [Published Oct 18 2009 by Greenspace]
First Reported Oct 15 2009 - Updated Oct 16 2009 - 2 Documents

Siemens Snaps Up Solel for $418M, Eyes Solar Thermal Expansion [Earth2Tech]

Solar thermal power company Solel Solar Systems has found an exit. Less than a year after Solel raised a gigantic $105 million investment from London-based firm Ecofin to help finance a plant in California’s Mojave Desert, Siemens has announced ... [Published Oct 15 2009 by GigaOM Network]

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Stuart Staniford: The US in a High Emissions Sc... [Peak Oil - Mar 04 2010]
Can Tax Incentives Bring Back Manufacturing to ... [Greentech Media - Mar 03 2010]
Virgin Galactic lures more GCC space tourists [Maktoob Business - Mar 03 2010]
The US in a high emissions scenario [Energy Bulletin - Mar 01 2010]
Where Will Solar Power Plants Be BuiltâDes... [Greentech Media - Feb 22 2010]
The Weekly: News from Around the Matter Network [Reuters - Feb 19 2010]
NASA Ponies Up for Commercial Suborbital Space ... [Discovery Channel - Feb 19 2010]
Wind Energy's Ghosts [American Thinker - Feb 19 2010]
On Feb. 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt, Sr. died from... [Chicago Tribune - Feb 18 2010]
Magnitude-4.1 quake shakes California desert [San Jose Mercury News - Feb 15 2010]
Solar Under Attack from… [Greentech Media - Feb 12 2010]
Jillette: Obama's 'stupid' Vegas jab [CNN - Feb 09 2010]
Jillette: Obama's 'stupid' jab at Vegas [CNN - Feb 08 2010]
Opinion: Obama's 'stupid' jab at Vegas [CNN - Feb 08 2010]
It's green against green in the Mojave Desert [Reuters - Feb 05 2010]
Underwater Plane Branson Building (Photo) Touri... [Post Chronicle - Feb 02 2010]
Greentech blow back [ZDNet - Dec 23 2009]
America looks for a renewable future [Times Online - Dec 22 2009]
South Korean Space Center Selects XCOR's Lynx f... [SpaceRef - Dec 20 2009]
Park Avenue Travel's Joshua Bush, Local Accredi... [Auto & Transportation - Dec 07 2009]
Covington International Travel Adds 'Accredited... [Auto & Transportation - Dec 02 2009]
NASA JSC Advanced Planning Office Blog: Creatin... [SpaceRef - Nov 15 2009]
Masten Space Completes First Untethered Flights... [SpaceRef - Sep 28 2009]
Defense firm touts iPhone video war game [Space Daily - Aug 21 2009]
Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Fran... [Popular Science - Aug 18 2009]
The U.S. Senate should drop cap-and-trade [Charleston Daily Mail - Aug 17 2009]
Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force's Fran... [Popular Science - Aug 14 2009]
Testimony of Patti Grace Smith: Hearing on Enha... [SpaceRef - Jul 20 2009]
Feds Put Solar Energy Projects on Fast Track [Environmental Leader - Jul 01 2009]
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It’s Green Against Green In Mojave Desert Solar... [CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com - Feb 02 2010]
Few places are as well suited for large-scale solar projects as California’s Mojave Desert. But as mainstream environmental organizations push plans to turn the ...
Gerrymandered States [The Moderate Voice - Jan 24 2010]
James Fallows points to Neil Freeman at FakeIsTheNewReal.org who has mapped out a proposal for Electoral College Reform: The electoral college is a time-honored ...
Drumbeat: December 22, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - Dec 22 2009]
The 10 Countries With The Most Dwindling Oil Production Global oil production saw a 0.4% increase in 2008, according to the 2009 BP Statistical Review of World ...
Newt Gingrich Says Eric Holder Should Be Impeac... [TAPPED - Dec 21 2009]
I'm not sure why this didn't become a big story given the media's tendency to make everything Newt Gingrich says news: Back in November at David Horowitz's "Restoration ...
Virgin Galactic Ready To Unveil SpaceShipTwo [Wired: Autopia - Dec 07 2009]
After more than five years of waiting, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is ready to be unveiled to the public tonight at a ceremony in the Mojave desert. Following ...
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