Japan, U.S. to fund energy research THE ASAHI SHIMBUN 2010/06/23
Japan and the United States have agreed to jointly search for new energy sources from plants and other substances of biological origin. The project, funded at 1 billion yen ($11 million), was agreed to during talks between education minister Tatsuo Kawabata and U.S. presidential science adviser John Holdren in Tokyo early this month. Both countries by year-end will solicit public applications on two or three common subjects. They will split research costs for the project, which is expected to last three to five years. Recognizing the need to keep structures functional even after large earthquakes, Tokyo and Washington also agreed to begin research using the 3-D earthquake testing facility, nicknamed E-Defense, at an earthquake research center of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Miki, Hyogo Prefecture. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
