Japan follows Europe by tapping offshore wind for power
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KORIYAMA, Japan  - Overlooking a mountain lake a few hours drive from Tokyo, dozens of tall wind turbines spin in the breeze creating carbon-free power for the world's fifth-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases.
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A draft final statement at a European  Union summit on Friday set a binding target of 20 percent of  renewable sources in EU energy consumption by 2020 but offered  flexibility on how member states meet that goal.
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Plans for a large increase in the numbers of wind turbines around the UK coast have been set out by ministers.
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Japan and the United States are no longer categorically ruling out a French bid to host a revolutionary nuclear fusion project, an official with the European Union&#39;s executive arm says.
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Europe embarked on a bold path to fight climate change Friday, agreeing that one-fifth of the energy used by the 27-nation bloc by 2020 will come from renewable sources such as the sun and the wind, and ...Comment
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The United States is pushing Japan to become a base for a force that can deploy to the Middle East, a move that exceeds the bounds of their current security alliance, a report said.
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Environmental indigestion? As the UK becomes only the seventh nation to have more than two GigaWatts of electricity generated by wind farms, the government has given the green (no pun intended) light to the world's first offshore combined wind and gas energy scheme.â¦
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Japan has drawn up an action plan to  spearhead efforts to develop the next generation of more  environmentally friendly vehicles and batteries to help reduce  its reliance on oil.
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Japan is sticking to a six-party framework to build the world's first prototype nuclear fusion reactor even if the European Union opts to push ahead with its own project, a Japanese official said.
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Proposals for one of Europe's largest onshore wind farms are expected to be given official council backing.
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Britain wants to launch a major international clean energy project with other European countries, Japan and the United States in a drive to combat climate change, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday.
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Talks on where to build the world&#39;s first nuclear fusion reactor ended without a deal on Tuesday but the European Union said Japan and the United States no longer firmly opposed its bid to put the plant in France.
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By Claire Soares  The world's first floating wind turbine could be up and running in under two years after the German engineering giant Siemens teamed up with a Norwegian energy group yesterday to try to generate electricity in the middle of the North Sea.
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AES is moving into wind power, an area that is poised for steady growth.
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Escalating oil prices and global warming concerns have shifted the quest for renewable energy sources into high gear. While wind and solar claim most of the attention, the dark horse in this race may be the restless energy of the sea. By Stephen Leahy.
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An MIT researcher has a vision: Four hundred huge offshore wind turbines are providing onshore customers with enough electricity to power several hundred thousand homes, and nobody standing onshore can see them.
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NTT DoCoMo, top mobile phone carrier in Japan, and Motorola Inc., worldâs number two cell-phone maker, plans to develop third-generation cell phones that allow subscribers in Japan to use services in other parts of Asia and Europe.