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Carnival Corp., bowing to pressure from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller, said it will reimburse the U.S. for costs related to the breakdowns at sea of its Triumph and Splendor cruise ships.
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French plans to open hydroelectric concessions to competitive bidding, as proposed by the previous government, should be reviewed because they threaten to drive up power prices, lawmakers from the ruling Socialist Party said.
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General Electric Co. and Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest locomotive makers, are rushing to develop natural gas-powered models in a potential shift from diesel’s six decades as the fuel of choice for railroads.
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. says it still doesn’t know what caused a power outage at four pools used to cool spent nuclear fuel at the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co.
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc says solar power, a business it abandoned four years ago, may expand into the world’s biggest source of energy in the next half century.
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Airbus SAS said it will revert to traditional battery technology for its new A350 wide-body aircraft instead of the lithium-ion power source that grounded Boeing Co.’s competing 787 Dreamliner after malfunctions.
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PNE Wind U.K., a unit of Germany’s PNE Wind AG, said Scotland will be its focus as it develops as much as 591 megawatts of onshore wind farms in Britain, enough to power about 260,000 homes.
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Airbus SAS said it decided to use standard batteries in its new A350 aircraft and jettison the lithium-ion power source that grounded Boeing Co.’s competing 787 Dreamliner.
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Airbus SAS is developing plans to use standard batteries in its new A350 model and jettison the lithium-ion power source that grounded Boeing Co.’s rival 787 Dreamliner, two people familiar with the plans said.
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Meeting rooms used by accused plotters of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to consult with their attorneys had microphones in the ceiling that could be used by the U.S. government to monitor conversations, the top legal adviser for the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison camp said.
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