VendTek Systems, a leading provider of software for prepaid service distribution, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Now Prepay Corp. has entered into a new agreement with Canadian Tire Petroleum to implement Point-of-Sale activation terminals and new software to allow for activation of long distance cards by swiping them through the POS terminals.
Now Prepay will [...]

NASA’s STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft — en route as the first mission to capture the sun in 3-D — successfully launched Oct. 25 aboard a single Delta II vehicle from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 8:52 p.m. EDT.
The two nearly identical spacecraft, designed, built and operated for NASA by the Johns [...]

WorldWater & Power Corp. , developer and marketer of proprietary high-power solar systems, announced here today the construction start of a $402,482 solar electric system at The International Center for Water Technology (ICWT) at California State University, Fresno’s new building located on the Fresno campus. Founded in 2001, ICWT educates, promotes and assists in the [...]

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., and PermaCity Solar today announced the second in a series of new photovoltaic (PV) product innovations being developed by the venture. The latest innovation, called FASTTRACKS(TM), is a new “plug-and-play” system integration technique for use with the companies’ recently announced AST 5000 series PV modules.
The vast majority of today’s commercial [...]

Tehran, Iran - Iran confirmed Wednesday that it had expanded its controversial uranium enrichment program, a semiofficial news agency reported, even as the U.S. and its partners prepared a U.N. resolution to impose limited sanctions.
Tehran’s plan to inject gas into a second cascade of centrifuges - a process that yields either nuclear fuel or [...]

BHP Billiton is ready and willing to cash in on booming uranium prices by gearing up its Olympic Dam operation in South Australia to meet the surge in demand from China and India.
Speaking at the London-leg of the annual meetings last night, chairman Don Argus said that Olympic Dam — the world’s biggest known uranium [...]

U.S. citizens are beginning to come to terms with the country’s energy needs and are finding an answer blowing in the wind, according to electric power industry experts.
“Last year, and again this year, wind is going to be the second largest source of new power generation coming online,” said Christine Real de Azua, a spokesperson [...]

The U.S. wind energy industry is on track to install a record 2,750 megawatts (MW) of generating capacity in 2006, which will produce about as much electricity as is used by the entire state of Rhode Island and help strengthen energy security, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said today in its Third Quarter Market [...]

Some residents of the Lüderitz district have embarked on a project to test the feasibility of wind energy at the coastal town.
The scheme, called the Lüderitz Wind Energy Demonstration Project, is one of last week’s 12 grant recipients of the United Nations Development Fund/Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (SGP) to experiment with the use [...]

Wind energy is expected to contribute more than C$1 billion ($890 million) to Canada’s gross domestic product in 2006, up from C$736 million in 2005, an industry spokesman said on Tuesday.
“(Last year) was a record year for the wind industry. There was added capacity, and 2006 is going to be another record year,” Canadian Wind [...]