A German city's long focus on the sun
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Rolf Disch has harnessed the sun in his city of Freiburg, starting with his own house. It looks like an upside-down Apollo spacecraft and serves as a testing ground for ideas dreamed up by the 63-year-old solar architect. The home slowly turns with the sun to charge a billboard-sized solar panel on the roof, and the waterless toilet emits an occasional malodorous whiff.
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Sun-deprived humans might consider moving to the northern Italian village of Viganella, basking in sunlight thanks to a giant mirror.
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As Chancellor Angela Merkel  seeks to convince world leaders to cut greenhouse gases at a G8  summit this week, one of the biggest brown coal-fired power  plants ever built is taking shape in this depressed town.
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The industrial giant's new Munich research outpost puts renewable energy in high gear
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By Hugh Williamson in Berlin and Richard Milne in RÃ¼sselsheim. The mood at Opel&#39;s RÃ¼ssel-heim factory near Frankfurt was as chilly yesterday as the weather.
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Women's skin ages faster than men's, according to a German study using a new laser-based technique to measure damage from sun exposure and aging.
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PARIS  -- A comet or asteroid smashed into modern-day Germany some 2,200 years ago, unleashing energy equivalent to thousands of atomic bombs, scientists revealed.     The 1.1-kilometre (0.7-mile) diameter rock wacked into southeastern Bavaria, leaving an "exceptional field" of meteorites and impact craters that stretch from the town of Altoetting to an area around Lake Chiemsee, the scientists said Friday in an article in the latest issue of US magazine Astronomy...
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DUESSELDORF, Germany -- At the international airport in this western German city, smokers are shunned. If you want to light up, you're restricted to a handful of bars in the terminal, or else stuck puffing on the dingy street outside.
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The German economy, Europe's biggest, is currently running up one record after another.
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Three German cities, including the capital Berlin, began implementing a new air pollution system that bans the dirtiest vehicles from their centres. via Australia Network
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The sun broke through the clouds and the town mayor beamed with pride, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrder's black Mercedes limousine came rolling into the east German town of Wittenberge.
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BRAND, Germany  - Bathers lounging on the beach  flanked by exotic plants in the middle of a harsh German winter  -- that is the vision of Malaysian businessman Colin Au.
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You can't get lost in Dresden. Wherever you go, you can see the stately white dome of the Frauenkirche, as much a landmark in this eastern German city as St.
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Shining a light on the solar industry.
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BOULDER, COLORADO -- Think    of it as some sort of extraterrestrial axiom: Look for places on a celestial    body where the Sun doesn't shine.
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The name Dresden evokes two overlapping images in me-an old German city known for its beauty and the horrible destruction it suffered during World War II.
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Munich has the best weather, great museums and Oktoberfest; Hamburg, the birthplace of Mendelssohn and Brahms, is the largest port, the richest, greenest and most beautifully situated; and the newly-risen ...