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Analysis: Russia jockeying for Cuban oil Miami (UPI) Nov 26, 2008 
Russian oil companies are expressing an interest in tapping Cuba's offshore oil potential ahead of an official state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Moscow's top diplomat in Cuba earlier this week said Russian petroleum firms have designs on drilling in waters in the Gulf of Mexico off Cuba's northern shores, an area Cuban energy experts say contains an estimated 20 billion ... read moreSolar Thermal Market Growing 
London, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2008The Solar Thermal Systems (STS) market for hot water and heating has changed considerably over the past few years in Europe as market shares spread into new countries. In 2003, close to 80% of the solar thermal market in operation was concentrated in Germany, Greece and Austria. Just a few years later, these same countries only hold 55%, making room for countries like Spain, Italy and ... more
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Lindes Major Gases Supplier In Global PV Industry
Beijing (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Technology company The Linde Group announced the award of three new multi-million US-dollar (USD) contracts to capture more than 50 percent of the thin film photovoltaic (PV) market in China. The agreements are bolstering the company's position as the world's largest supplier of bulk and specialty gases to the thin film PV industry. The Linde Group's local subsidiary, Linde LienHwa has ... more Green Star Announces Odessa Biodiesel Plant Completed 
Odessa WA (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Green Star Products has announced that the Inland Empire Oilseeds Biodiesel Facility in Odessa, Washington is completed. Its initial continuous acceptance run produced 36,000 gallons of spec biodiesel to complete GSPI's contractual obligations. The biodiesel fuel was tested by an independent certified lab. The certificate of analysis No. 111208030 reported that all ASTM 6751 specifications ... more Enhanced R And D In Biofuel Production Attracts Investors To Latin America 
Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Latin America is all set to make a splash in the global biofuels market, thanks to its inherent advantages of land availability, technological developments, agricultural knowledge, and low labor costs. Biofuel feedstock production already has a move on in Brazil and Argentina, which produce significant amounts of ethanol and soy, respectively. New analysis from Frost and Sullivan, Latin ... more  |
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Life Is A Highway: Study Confirms Cars Have Personality
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Nov 27, 2008No one needs to tell Disney, which brought the likes of Herbie the Love Bug and Lightning McQueen to the big screen, that cars have personality. Now a study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher has confirmed through a complex statistical analysis that many people see human facial features in the front end of automobiles and ascribe various personality traits to cars ... more New Material Could Make Gases More Transportable 
Liverpool, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Chemists at the University of Liverpool have developed a way of converting methane gas into a powder form in order to make it more transportable. Scientists have developed a material made out of a mixture of silica and water which can soak up large quantities of methane molecules. The material looks and acts like a fine white powder which, if developed for industrial use, might be easily ... more Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries 
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus the running time of the devices, remain somewhat limited. A notebook computer thus usually runs only about two hours. The reason for this is the relatively small capacity of the graphite ... more Boosting The Power Of Solar Cells 
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 27, 2008New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT. Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have applied an antireflection coating to the front, and a novel combination of multi-layered reflective coatings and a ... more |
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