Mojave (United States)

Type: City

Name: Mojave (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]

Entities: Emission, Mojave (United States), Sonora (California, United States), Early Warning

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]

Entities: Taxes, Incentives, Ontario (California, United States)

First Reported Mar 03 2010 - Updated Mar 04 2010 - 1 Documents

Virgin Galactic

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]

Entities: Virgin Galactic, Will Whitehorn, Abu Dhabi, Mojave (United States)

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]

Entities: Emission, Sonora (California, United States), Mojave (United States)

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Ausra Inc

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]

Entities: Mojave (United States), BrightSource Energy Inc, Biofuels, Ausra Inc

First Reported Feb 19 2010 - Updated Feb 20 2010 - 1 Documents

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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]

Entities: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Virgin Galactic, Lori Garver

First Reported Feb 15 2010 - Updated Feb 15 2010 - 1 Documents

United States Geological Survey

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]

Entities: Earthquake, Mojave (United States), Bakersfield (California, United States), United States Geological Survey

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]

Entities: BrightSource Energy Inc, Solar Thermal, Stirling Energy Systems Inc, Mojave (United States)

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]

Entities: Virgin Galactic, Witness, Mojave (United States)

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]

Entities: Covington (Virginia, United States), Scaled Composites, Mojave (United States), Burt Rutan, Virtuoso

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]

Entities: Renewable Energy, Solar Power, Mojave (United States), Species, Fullerton (California, United States)

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]

Entities: Solel Solar Systems Ltd, Siemens AG, Solar Thermal, Thermal Expansion

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