Electric Car Maker ZAP Adds Solar Option to Truck Design To Combat Global Warming
Santa Rosa CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2007
After a positive response for its XEBRA XERO, electric car pioneer ZAP has designed a solar option for its truck design, a photovoltaic panel that ZAP says can offer short-distance driving on sunlight alone.
ZAP intends to showcase the new XEBRA XERO (pronounced 'zebra zero') Truck at its March 23 dealer training as well as some up-coming industry events for automotive fleets. Company offi ... read more
abcsolar: Solar The Standard In Stapleton New Home Packages
Russia Ready To Build NPPs In Namibia
Windhoek, Namibia (RIA Novosti) Mar 20, 2007
Russia is ready to build nuclear power plants of different kinds in Namibia, Russia's prime minister said Saturday. Mikhail Fradkov, currently on a visit to the African country, said after talks with its leaders that Russia was considering the construction of mini-plants and floating nuclear power plants that would use uranium or operate without using it.
"These are issues still to be ... more
nuclear technology: Mitsubishi Heavy Set For Big US Nuclear Order
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New Biofuels Process Promises To Meet All U.S. Transportation Needs
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 20, 2007
Purdue University chemical engineers have proposed a new environmentally friendly process for producing liquid fuels from plant matter - or biomass - potentially available from agricultural and forest waste, providing all of the fuel needed for "the entire U.S. transportation sector."
The new approach modifies conventional methods for producing liquid fuels from biomass by adding hydrogen ... more
energy-tech: Catamount Energy Invests in Fuel Cell Power Generation
energy-tech: Applied Materials Building First 8.5 Thin Film Solar Production Line
Physicists Tailor Magnetic Pairings In Nanoscale Semiconductors
Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2007
Electrons love to zip around metals such as copper, especially if the metal is cooled to temperatures near absolute zero. But if they encounter a magnetic atom (say, iron) during their travels, the electrons will try to "screen," or cancel out, the magnetic atom's spin alignment by pairing with it. This pairing modifies the flow of electrons in the metal, in a phenomenon called the Kondo effect. ... more
physics: Physicists Wipe Away Complexity For A Clearer View Of Heavy Nuclei
New Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Created
Lausanne (UPI) Switzerland, March 12, 2007
Swiss scientists have created a technology that might lead to development of more powerful lithium-ion batteries for use in a wide range of electronic gear. Michael Gratzel and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne note in current lithium-ion batteries, large quantities of carbon black, graphite or other conductive materials must be added to improve cathode conducti ... more
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