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Super Atoms Turn The Periodic Table Upside Down Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 07, 2008 
Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands have developed a technique for generating atom clusters made from silver and other metals. Surprisingly enough, these so-called super atoms (clusters of 13 silver atoms, for example) behave in the same way as individual atoms and have opened up a whole new branch of chemistry. If a silver thread is heated to around ... read more
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Some Fundamental Interactions Of Matter Turn Out To Be Fundamentally Different Than Thought
Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects-mangled steel, bruised flesh-sometimes it is the tiniest collisions that have the most resounding repercussions. Such may be the case with the results of new experimental research on ... more JDR To Build Inter-Array Cables For World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm 
Cambridgeshire, England (SPX) Jul 07, 2008JDR, a worldwide provider of custom designed and manufactured subsea power cables, umbilical systems and specialised marine cables, has been awarded a contract by Fluor Ltd for the supply of inter-array cables for the Greater Gabbard offshore wind farm. Under development by Airtricity, the renewable energy development division of Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE), Greater Gabbard will ... more Germany wants to build 30 windfarms: report 
Berlin (AFP) July 6, 2008The German government wants to build up to 30 offshore windfarms in a bid to meet its renewable energy targets, Environment Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in an interview published Sunday. Tiefensee told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that the windfarms would be built in the Baltic and North seas and said some 2,000 windmills should soon be producing 11,000 megawatts of electricity. ... more Europeans' reservations about nuclear energy on the decline: survey 
Brussels (AFP) July 3, 2008Reservations about the use of nuclear energy are on the decline in Europe, although there is still no majority in favour, according to an EU survey published on Thursday. Some 44 percent of Europeans are either "totally in favour" or "fairly in favour" of nuclear energy, according to the survey, carried out in February and March. The last time the survey was carried out in 2005 the ... more Marshall Islands declares 'economic emergency' over energy crisis 
Majuro (AFP) July 4, 2008The tiny western Pacific island nation of the Marshall Islands has declared a state of economic emergency as soaring fuel prices threaten to shut down electricity supplies. Failure to resolve the fuel crisis could lead to a "disaster of unimaginable magnitude," President Litokwa Tomeing said in a statement late Thursday. "Accordingly, I Litokwa Tomeing, on behalf of the cabinet of the ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 07, 2008The energy industry could face a perfect storm unless efforts are ramped up to prepare the workforce of the future. That was the message delivered by PSEG Chairman and CEO Ralph Izzo to a group of government, labor and management officials gathered in Washington, DC for the first national Labor and Management Public Affairs Committee (LAMPAC) meeting. LAMPAC is a cooperative effort among ... more Yingli Green Energy Announces 10MW Sales Contract In Belgium 
Baoding, China (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Yingli Green Energy has entered into a sales contract with Enfinity Management, a global renewable energy project developer located in Ghent, Belgium. Under the terms of the agreement, Yingli Green Energy is expected to supply 10 MW of PV modules to Enfinity from July 2008 to December 2008. "This is the first time we have collaborated with Enfinity and we are pleased that they trusted ... more Trina Solar Earns Spot In Russell Global Index 
Changzhou, China (SPX) Jul 07, 2008Trina Solar Limited, a manufacturer of integrated photovoltaic products has been added to the Russell Global Index when Russell Investments reconstituted its comprehensive set of global equity indexes on June 27. Membership in the Russell Global Index, which remains in place for one year, means automatic inclusion in the appropriate large-cap, small-cap, all-cap indexes as well as the ... more Toyota To Equip Prius With Solar Panels 
Tokyo (AFP) Jul 07, 2008Japan's Toyota Motor plans to add solar panels to its popular Prius hybrid early next year to power the vehicle's air conditioning, a newspaper report said Monday. As part of a complete design makeover, the Prius will be fitted with rooftop solar panels on its high-end models, the Nikkei economic daily said without naming sources. If it happens, Toyota, in a close race with General ... more |
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Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008The European Union should free itself from its dependence on Russian gas by developing renewable and nuclear energy, the former head of the International Energy Agency told EU ministers Saturday. "We need to give ourselves a flexibility that we are missing," Claude Mandil told the European bloc's 27 energy ministers at an informal meeting on the outskirts of Paris. "We need more energy ... more EU ministers look to building sector to push energy efficiency 
Paris (AFP) July 4, 2008European Union energy ministers on Friday vowed to place energy efficiency at the heart of plans to ease the soaring cost of fossil fuels and help meet the EU's goals on climate change. "Energy efficiency today is the key, it has to become the absolute priority," French Ecology Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told a press conference, summing up the mood at the first day of an informal meeting. ... more EU ministers 'discover' biofuels not an obligation after all 
Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008European Union energy ministers said at an informal meeting Saturday they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels. What seems to be a stunning misreading on the part of policymakers in Brussels comes at a time when the image of biofuels has shifted over a matter of a months ... more EU airline pollution plan could spark trade wars: industry officials 
Geneva (AFP) July 3, 2008A plan by the European Union to impose a carbon dioxide emissions quota for all airlines flying into and out of the bloc could spark trade wars, aviation industry officials warned. The so-called emissions trading scheme, which is to be voted on by the EU lawmakers next week, aims at cutting aviation pollution by forcing airlines to lower emissions by 3.0 percent in the first year and by 5.0 ... more
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