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Breaking The Ice Before It BeginsCambridge MA (SPX) Nov 17, 2010 Engineers from Harvard University have designed and demonstrated ice-free nanostructured materials that literally repel water droplets before they even have the chance to freeze. The finding, reported online in ACS Nano, could lead to a new way to keep airplane wings, buildings, powerlines, and even entire highways free of ice during the worst winter weather. Moreover, integrating anti-ice technology right into a material is more efficient and sustainable than conventional solutions like chemical ... read more |
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  Why Do Solar Power Stations Also Need So Much Water Solar power plants either make use of solar cells to generate electricity directly, or they use heat from concentrated sunlight to generate it indirectly. The illuminated surfaces of solar panels or ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Partners With RMSC For Renewable Energy Projects Northrop Grumman, in collaboration with Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers (RMSC) has formed the Maximizing and Optimizing Renewable Energy (M.O.R.E.) POWER initiative, which leverages RMSC's on- ... more | .. |
 PermaCity Solar Announces Approval Of Two New Patents PermaCity Solar has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted two patents for flexible photovoltaic array wiring and control and Z/C system brackets, both invented by ... more | .. |
 PV Powerplants 2010 - USA Conference Solarpraxis AG will host its second conference series focusing exclusively on large-scale solar power plants. The conference will provide essential information for decision makers striving to gain a ... more |
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 US PV Market Has Incredible Upside To Growth Potential Over the next couple years the growth rate of the US PV market will undoubtedly outgrow that of more established markets such as Italy, Germany and Spain, therein making it among the leading PV mark ... more | .. |
 Solergy Launches Next-Gen CPV With Record-Breaking Efficiency Solergy has announced the introduction of two unique flagship products: Solergy CPV and Solergy Cogen CPV . Solergy and the Italian Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) have also jointly announced their ... more | .. |
  Argentina, China bury the trade war hatchet President Cristina Kirchner and China's visiting Agriculture Minister Han Changfu met Monday, formally ending a six month trade war that threatened Argentina's standing as the world's leading soybean oil exporter. ... more | .. |
 China partners in Ecuador gold project China will be a major financing and engineering partner in a gold mining development project in Ecuador seen as a crucial step toward the country's economic development. ... more |
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 China grapples with diesel shortage China is facing severe shortages of diesel fuel as more enterprises have turned to diesel-powered generators amid enforced blackouts. ... more | .. |
 China sends patrol vessel to disputed East China Sea China has sent a helicopter-equipped fisheries vessel to patrol the disputed East China Sea, state media reported Tuesday, just as the two sides appeared to be cooling sharp tensions over the area. ... more | .. |
  New Research Provides Effective Battle Planning For Supercomputer War New research from the University of Warwick, to be presented at the World's largest supercomputing conference next week, pits China's new No. 1 supercomputer against alternative US designs. The work ... more | .. |
 EnviroMission Solar Tower Fits Arizona Bill EnviroMission's Solar Tower technology fits the bill of new rules to promote renewable energy, including solar power, in the State of Arizona. Rules drafted by the Arizona Corporation Commissi ... more |
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  Building A Racetrack Memory Annoyed by how long it took his computer to boot up, Klaui began to think about an alternative. Hard disks are cheap and can store enormous quantities of data, but they are slow; every time a comput ... more | .. |
  BlueFire Renewables Receives Final Permits For Cellulosic Ethanol Facility BlueFire Renewables has announced that it has received all permits to allow start of construction of its first commercial project in Fulton, Mississippi. BlueFire has obtained its final air, w ... more | .. |
 Strategic Alliance To Process Jatropha Seeds Into Sustainable Crude Oil SG Biofuels has announced it has established a strategic partnership with Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited, to research and develop a model to process Jatropha ... more | .. |
 Statoil Now Blending Inbicon's Cellulosic Ethanol For Danish Drivers As Statoil rolls out a 5% ethanol blend at 100 selected petrol stations across Denmark, Inbicon has reported that it has already begun supplying Statoil with second-generation bioethanol made from w ... more |
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 Celanese Develops Advanced Technology For Production Of Industrial-Use Ethanol Celanese has announced its intention to construct manufacturing facilities in China and the U.S. to utilize recently-developed advanced technology for the production of ethanol for chemical applicat ... more | .. |
 US To Develop More Sugarcane Ethanol The first major sugarcane ethanol refinery in the continental United States will be built in the Imperial Valley of California, one of the best locations for growing sugarcane in the world. The etha ... more | .. |
  Strength Of Graphene Lies In Its Defects The website of the Nobel Prize shows a cat resting in a graphene hammock. Although fictitious, the image captures the excitement around graphene, which, at one atom thick, is the among the thinnest ... more | .. |
Experts say rare earths headed for 2011 supply crunch Global demand for the increasingly important "rare earth" minerals that power a range of digital products could outstrip supply by next year as dominant producer China slashes exports, analysts warn. ... more |
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  South Korea bids for Lithuania nuclear project South Korea's state energy firm said Wednesday it was seeking to build a nuclear reactor in Lithuania, in the country's latest move to export its atomic expertise. ... more | .. |
Britain's HSBC to consult on new Bulgarian nuclear plant Britain's HSBC bank was chosen Tuesday to advise Bulgaria on restructuring and financing its Belene nuclear power plant project in the north of the country, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said. ... more | .. |
  Britain's move on F-35 will not affect US Marines: general Britain's decision to buy a different version of the F-35 fighter jet will not dramatically raise the cost of the aircraft for the US Marine Corps, a military official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
POSCO to build auto steel sheet plant in southern China South Korea's top steelmaker POSCO is to build a plant in southern China to produce steel sheets for automobile makers there, a spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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