Archive for November 30th, 2010

Taiwan Harnesses Sun to Power Panama Farms

November 30, 2010
By in.di.
Taiwan Harnesses Sun to Power Panama Farms

Taiwan’s Technical Mission is promoting the use of clean energy by installing the first of 15 solar panels in western rural Panama. The sun-generated energy will be used to light fields and animal pens, operate wells and power irrigation systems. Edwin Goty, an engineer with the Ministry of Agriculture, says that there are plans...
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Visitors and Neighbors Get Whiff of Chorrera Prison Sewage

November 30, 2010
By en.di.

La Chorrera prison’s sewage system collapsed earlier this week, its wastewater runoff affecting prison visitors and nearby residents. Most of the sewage runs into the area where inmate relatives wait in line to deliver food and medicine to prisoners.  Neighbors were forced into action and opened a trench to divert the course of wastewater...
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