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![]() Tokyo (AFP) Nov 18, 2010 The world's top automaker Toyota Motor plans to launch 11 new hybrid models by the end of 2012, the company said Thursday, as the race to build more environmentally friendly vehicles heats up. The planned vehicles, consisting of all-new and redesigned models, will expand Toyota's hybrid-engine range - which runs on gasoline and electricity - at a time when rivals such as Nissan are developing all-electric vehicles. The automaker is eyeing annual sales of more than 50,000 units for a Prius-base ... read more |
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![]() German utilities lobby for offshore wind The operators of Germany's first offshore wind farm on Tuesday urged the German government to increase incentives to expand the generation of renewable power at sea. ... more | .. |
![]() Chinese, Indian growth easing, weak yuan a danger: OECD Emerging Asian giants China and India are set for further high growth, but the weakness of the yuan is a grave threat to emerging economies in the region, the OECD said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Air China announces 4.49 billion-dollar Airbus deal Air China is to buy 20 passenger planes from Airbus in deal worth 4.49 billion US dollars, the airline said in a statement filed with the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday. ... more | .. |
![]() Report says China manipulates currency China manipulates its currency and applies "discriminatory" policies that breach its international trade obligations, a U.S. congressional commission said in a report released Wednesday. ... more |
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![]() Total Launches Project To Build French Solar Panel Plant Total has announced the construction of a photovoltaic panel production and assembly unit at Composite Park in France's north-eastern region of Moselle. With a surface area of 2,800 square metres, t ... more | .. |
![]() Amargosa Farm Road Solar Project Receives Federal Approval Solar Trust of America has announced that its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium, LLC, has secured a Record of Decision (ROD) from the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Managemen ... more | .. |
![]() HyperSolar Announces Initial Breakthrough Design HyperSolar has announced that new design models show potential magnification of 300%. "We are very excited about this breakthrough by our development team," said HyperSolar's CEO, Tim Young. " ... more | .. |
![]() Solar-Powered Recharging Stations For Electric Bicycles Kyocera, and its wholly-owned subsidiary Kyocera Communication Systems, have announced the development of its new "Solar Cycle Station" - an environmentally friendly solar-powered recharging station ... more |
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![]() UNI-SOLAR Brand Photovoltaics To Be Utilized In Italy United Solar has announced it will supply six megawatts of UNI-SOLAR brand photovoltaics for a 9.7 megawatt portfolio of solar projects developed by Winch Energy, in the region of Puglia, Italy. ... more | .. |
![]() Solar Steam Generator System In UAE Foster Wheeler has announced that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design and supply a solar steam generator system (preheaters, drum-type evaporators, and super ... more | .. |
![]() Suntech To Acquire 375MW Of Wafer Manufacturing Capacity Suntech Power Holdings has announced that it is in the process of acquiring 375MW of ingot and wafer slicing capacity in China. The wafer manufacturing capacity is being spun off from a subsid ... more | .. |
![]() Chinese Companies Dominate Solar Manufacturing Spending In 2010 Chinese companies are expected to lead the world in the expansion of solar cell and module manufacturing capacity in 2010, accounting for seven of the 10 biggest gainers in the industry, according t ... more |
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![]() CENTROSOLAR Expands To Canada Building on its strong presence in European and US solar markets, CENTROSOLAR Group has announced the opening of CENTROSOLAR Canada, establishing an increased commitment to the Canadian photovoltaic ... more | .. |
![]() Solar Inverter Step-Up Transformers Need New Design Approach It is often argued that "there is nothing new under the sun," but when it comes to solar power inverter step-up transformers, something new is required - a new design approach. Large scale w ... more | .. |
![]() Emirates seek alternative oil export route Amid continuing fears that Iran may seek to close the choke point Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, a vital oil artery for the world, the United Arab Emirates is seeking alternative export routes for its oil. ... more | .. |
![]() U.K. mulls more active role in territories The British-ruled Falkland Islands and other overseas U.K. territories in the Atlantic and Caribbean regions will receive more proactive participation by London in their foreign policy and economic development, officials said. ... more |
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![]() Antimatter Atoms Produced And Trapped At CERN The ALPHA experiment at CERN has taken an important step forward in developing techniques to understand one of the Universe's open questions: is there a difference between matter and antimatter? In ... more | .. |
![]() Antihydrogen Trapped For First Time Physicists working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, have succeeded in trapping antihydrogen - the antimatter equivalent of the hydrogen atom - a miles ... more | .. |
![]() Caltech Physicists Demonstrate A Four-Fold Quantum Memory Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have demonstrated quantum entanglement for a quantum state stored in four spatially distinct atomic memories. Their work, descri ... more | .. |
![]() Deepwater Horizon Interim Report The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion and spill from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest the lack of a suitable app ... more |
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![]() Rare Earth Elements In US Not So Rare Approximately 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE) exist within known deposits in the United States, according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of these elements by the U.S. Geol ... more | .. |
![]() New Revelations In Ammonia Synthesis Scientists at the University of Cambridge are working on ways to improve the efficiency of the ammonia synthesis process. With between 3-5% of the world's natural gas used to create artificial ferti ... more | .. |
![]() New Technology Gives On-Site Assessments In Archaeology The ability to tell the difference between crystals that formed naturally and those formed by human activity can be important to archaeologists in the field. This can be a crucial bit of information ... more | .. |
![]() Daewoo, Doosan in Indonesian vehicle deal Daewoo International Corp. has brokered a $70 million deal for Doosan DST to supply the K-21 tracked infantry fighting vehicle to the Indonesian army. ... more |
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