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Rudolf Blažek, deputy head of the senior government Civic Democrats (ODS) Prague branch and former deputy Prague mayor, was appointed Czech deputy defence minister for armament and military equipment purchases Tuesday.
Fantasma Doido posted a photo:
Taken on our last night in Prague. We went up the tower at the end of Charles bridge. It was very cold and there wasn’t anyone else there I set up my camera on my tripod and tried to take shots from all angles. Unfortunately, the bridge was starting to become covered with mist so this was the best angle.
Ballard Power Systems has been conditionally awarded up to C million (US.2 million) by Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to extend the operating life and lower the product cost of FCgen(TM)-1300, the fuel cell power plant that powers Ballard’s CLEARgen distributed generation system.
The first application of this new lower cost distributed generation solution is expected to be a six-megawatt (6MW) CLEARgen system at the ERCO Worldwide (ERCO) sodium chlorate plant in North Vancouver, British Columbia. ERCO is the specialty chemicals division of Superior Plus Corp. The ERCO plant in North Vancouver generates large quantities of hydrogen as a by-product of sodium chlorate production, and this by-product hydrogen can be used to power the Ballard CLEARgen system to generate megawatts of electricity.
Terasen Gas is a leading integrated energy provider and will undertake a feasibility study to look at the use of heat created by the CLEARgen system at ERCO’s site for district heating applications in North Vancouver.
Ballard recently entered the distributed generation market, in addition to backup power, material handling and transit bus applications. In 2010 Ballard announced commissioning of a 1MW CLEARgen system in Ohio for FirstEnergy Generation Corp., one of the largest regional US utilities, as well as a system sale to K2 Pure Solutions, which will use by-product hydrogen from its bleach production plant in California to generate clean electricity.
Receipt of SDTC project funding is contingent on final agreements being reached between Ballard, ERCO Worldwide and BC Hydro as well as internal Board approvals. Subject to these agreements being approved, the manufacturing and site commissioning work is planned for 2012-13.
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Slovak and Czech human rights activists will shortly block the Slovak-Austrian border crossing Jarovce/Kittsee on the outskirts of Bratislava on March 9 in protest against the trial of 13 Austrian environmental activists, campaign organiser Marek Vorsilka told CTK Tuesday.
Fantasma Doido posted a photo:
Prague is well know for amazing puppets. I managed to get a few shots in one of the best shops near old town square before I was told no photos.
I would have loved more time to get better compositions and take more photos but as it stands, I think this isn’t too bad
