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Yoram Valent from Bar Ilan University in Israel won the GE Smart Grid Award for GridON, a spin-out commercialising Valent's innovative Fault Current Limiter (FCL) which improves control of fault currents on electricity grids. GridON's technology is more effective than existing solutions and less costly. Short circuits are becoming more frequent as electricity networks expand to meet increasing energy demand and carry renewable sources of energy that flow intermittently. The judges noted that GridON's technology is important because when electricity grids operate close to capacity, intermittent flows can shut down the entire system. GE's participation in ACES 2011 is part of a $200 million investment programme to invest in new 'smart grid' technologies, the GE 'ecomagination' challenge.
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CNN Worldview has broadcast an ISRAEL21c story about Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian environmentalists who are challenging a World Bank administered plan to revive the dying Dead Sea by linking it to the Red Sea.
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A non-proft in Israel called EcoOcean makes over 100 trips on the Mediterranean Sea each year. These missions are designed to learn about the sea, human’s effect on it, and the mysteries of this particular body of water. Hear from the members of EcoOcean who make these trips and see them out on the water conducting important environmental research.
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