Texaco Inc. said yesterday that it had acquired a 20percentt stake in Energy Conversion Devices Inc. for $67.3 million and formed a joint venture with the company to work on alternative energy technology.
But it is also in Provence — a region fabled for its fragrances and the professional "noses" who create them — where scientists are gathering to work on alternative testing research in vitro, literally "in the glass".
The new wholly owned G.M. research center will work on alternative fuels like ethanol; electric vehicle technology, including hybrids and fuel cells; and energy efficiency in the manufacturing process, including auto parts suppliers.
So more universities are setting up stand-alone centers that offer neutral ground on which engineering students can work on alternative fuels while business students calculate the economics of those fuels and political science majors figure how to make the fuels palatable to governments in both developing nations and America's states.
Many psychiatrists have called for more work on alternative therapies and treatments.
We continued to work on alternative proposals with a number of major stakeholders," Mr Burnell said.
This paper argues that previous work on alternative representations of version spaces has disguised the real question underlying version space reasoning.
In their work on alternative geometries, these mathematicians came to regard the effects of altering the axioms of geometry as changing the meaning of their constituent terms, thus re-defining the primitive geometric concepts.
But exactly this avoidance of the prevailing science provided a chance for me to work on alternative ways of seed nursing and treatments in agriculture--and maybe today's methods will be those of yesterday soon.
Nearly 260,000 Americans work on alternative fuel vehicles, 374,000 people work in solar energy and more than 100,000 people work in the wind industry.
