Undersea cable could bring 'green' power to Hub
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As two companies press ahead on projects bringing natural gas to Boston through offshore terminals, a third group is also looking to the sea for a new source of energy -- a 140-mile underwater electric cable from Maine to South Boston.
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Plans to lay an undersea fiber-optic cable off eastern Africa could be the beginning of the end of crackling long-distance calls, slow dial-up Internet connections and universities without e-mail.
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Supporters say the new technology, which uses electric power lines, could become a major alternative to cable modem and phone connections if FCC approval helps it attract  participation of major utility companies.
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African countries working jointly to  construct an undersea telecoms cable should harmonize laws  governing the sector if they are to land the much-awaited  communications link, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.
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Repairs on two out of three broken  undersea cables providing data services to parts of the Middle  East and Asia should be completed by Sunday, while the third  should be fixed by Saturday, cable operators said.
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How non-green is your network? Energy saving has so far focused on PCs, servers and the like, but now networks have been fingered as major wasters of power. An industry group has claimed that Ethernet's poor use of energy could be wasting as much as $450m a year - or 5.8TW/h - in the US. And perhaps three times that much, worldwide.â¦
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Plans for two major offshore wind farms off the Kent and Essex coasts are expected to be given the green light.
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Flag Telecom's repair ship should reach and begin repairing the damaged undersea Internet cable on Tuesday.
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Four projects are in the works to lay fiber-optic cables beneath the Indian Ocean off the coast of eastern Africa. The countries involved are:
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Four breaks in undersea internet cables have some speculating that terrorists or the U.S. military are to blame. But telecom experts say the pattern is at most a bit suspicious, and probably just business as usual at the bottom of the ocean floor.
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By Sadie Gray  Plugs and cables could become obsolete after scientists devised a way of recharging electrical devices ranging from laptop computers to lights from a distance.
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Two of the four undersea cables that provide data to much of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia which were severed late last week are now undergoing repair.
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.
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US researchers demonstrate a system to transfer energy to devices without the need for wires.
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Startup Solis Energy says solar energy for routers could bring Wi-Fi to remote sites.
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Science & environment: The technology could prove a greener way to power cars - if only it could get research funding here
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U.S. telephone carrier Verizon Communications Inc.  is set to sign an agreement as early as Monday with five Asian telecoms companies to build the first high-speed, transpacific undersea cable system directly linking the United States and China, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.