24/7 Energy News Coverage
November 24, 2010
SOLAR DAILY
Boeing To Mass-Produce Industry's Most Efficient Terrestrial Solar Cell
Sylmar CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2010
Boeing has announced that Spectrolab, a wholly owned subsidiary, has started mass production of its newest terrestrial solar cell, the C3MJ+. With an average conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, C3MJ+ will be the industry's highest-efficiency cell. The concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells - used for renewable energy - draw on Spectrolab's 50-year history of manufacturing solar cells for space and terrestrial applications and are an improvement on the C3MJ cells currently in production, which co ... read more

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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.
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WIND DAILY

Enhancing The Efficiency Of Wind Turbines
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ENERGY NEWS

LockMart Continues Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
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SUPER COMPUTERS

NERSC Supercomputing Center Breaks The Petaflops Barrier
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The semiconductors costing Nvidia, AMD dearly
In China's factory heartland, warehouses weather Trump tariffs
Xi says China, Brazil can model 'self-reliance' for Global South
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TRADE WARS

Outside View: Chinese mercantilism
Ben Bernanke is right. Germany shouldn't blame easy money in the United States for the world's woes. Currency mercantilism in China and elsewhere is causing a mess - especially in the United States. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Tidal energy continues to entice
Tapping the Earth's ocean tides for affordable, renewable energy could ultimately meet 10 percent of America's electricity needs, advocates say. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Conductor Paths For Marvelous Light
Organic light-emitting diodes are seen as the basis for a new generation of lamps: Large-area lamps that can be randomly shaped and fl exibly integrated into interior design. But the "illuminated gl ... more
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ENERGY NEWS

China admits it is the world's biggest polluter
China acknowledged Tuesday that it is the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, as it called on the United States to ensure climate change talks opening next week make progress. ... more
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AEROSPACE

Should Airplanes Look Like Birds
Airplanes do not look much like birds - unless you were to imagine a really weird bird or a very strange plane - but should they? This question is exactly what a pair of engineers in California and ... more
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FROTH AND BUBBLE

On The Way To Lead-Free Technology
The change-over to lead-free products is in full progress. The problem is however that the environmentally friendly alternatives have to be as effi cient as the lead-containing variants. One example ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Russia, China to discuss gas pricing dispute
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao will tackle pricing disputes in gas cooperation when they meet in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday. ... more
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POLITICAL ECONOMY

China must step up inflation battle: analysts
China's frantic efforts to contain spiralling prices of food and other goods will likely fall short and it will also need to impose rate hikes and tougher curbs on bank lending, analysts said. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Australia faults Thai-owned firm over oil spill
Australia said on Wednesday that a Thai-owned oil firm's "widespread and systematic shortcomings" caused the worst offshore drilling accident in the country's history, which created a massive oil slick. ... more
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TRADE WARS

Japan, Australia move towards rare earths deal
Japan moved a step further away from its dependence on China for rare earth materials Wednesday after trading house Sojitz said it had formed a strategic alliance with an Australian mining firm. ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR

Russia agrees to build two more reactors in China
Russia on Tuesday signed a contract to build two additional reactors in China's Tianwan nuclear power plant as Chinese premier Wen Jiabao is in Russia for several days of energy talks. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

FuelCell Energy To Demonstrate 300KW DFC300 Power Plant
FuelCell Energy has announced a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineerin ... more
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THE PITS

29 still trapped in New Zealand coal mine
Three days after an explosion tore through a New Zealand coal mine, trapping 29 miners, authorities say it still isn't safe to send a rescue team underground. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Oil Will Run Dry Before Substitutes Roll Out
At the current pace of research and development, global oil will run out 90 years before replacement technologies are ready, says a new University of California, Davis, study based on stock market e ... more
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ENERGY TECH

GE Opens New Oil And Gas Subsea Test Facility
GE has further expanded its Oil and Gas business' portfolio capabilities with the inauguration of a new $3M investment subsea equipment testing facility in Warsaw, Poland, opened in partnership with ... more
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WIND DAILY

GL Garrad Hassan Chosen For SMart Wind's 'Hornsea' Zone
SMart Wind, the consortium lead by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures, has appointed GL Garrad Hassan to act as Independent Engineer for the first two 500MW projects in the 4GW ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
500th 'extrasolar' planet discovered

Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered

First glimpse of a planet from another galaxy

EARTH OBSERVATION
Imaging Science Offers New Opportunities For Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up

Issue Brief Details Space Situational Awareness Sharing Program

EARTH OBSERVATION
New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS

Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013

SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver

EARTH OBSERVATION
Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application

Tasks For Tiangong

China To Launch First Female Astronauts

EARTH OBSERVATION
How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17

Purdue Unveils Asteroid Impact Effects Calculator

EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA Spacecraft Burns For Another Comet Flyby

Hayabusa's Harvest

Comet Snowstorm Engulfs Hartley 2

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ENERGY TECH

Iran Says Crude Price At $100 Not To Hurt World Economy
Iranian OPEC Governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said that an oil price of up to 100 U.S. dollars would not hurt global economy, local satellite Press TV reported on Monday. Khatibi said on Sunday t ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Getting Bubbles Out Of Fuel Pumps
For more than 250 years, researchers have known that under certain conditions vapor bubbles can form in fluids moving swiftly over a surface. These bubbles soon collapse with such great force that t ... more
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CHIP TECH

Chaogates Hold Promise For The Semiconductor Industry
In a move that holds great significance for the semiconductor industry, a team of researchers has created an alternative to conventional logic gates, demonstrated them in silicon, and dubbed them "c ... more
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ENERGY NEWS

US Foodservice Deploys Orion Energy Systems LED Technology
Orion Energy Systems has announced that U.S. Foodservice will deploy Orion's LED technology and intelligent occupancy sensors in freezers at five of its facilities, including Little Rock, AR; Oklaho ... more
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ENERGY TECH

CSIRO's Supercomputer Is Australia's 'Greenest'
CSIRO's graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster is now Australia's 'greenest' supercomputer ranking 11th on an internationally recognised list of the world's 500 fastest and most energy efficient sup ... more
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ENERGY NEWS

German regulator wants 'energy Schengen'
A German energy official has called for a "Schengen Agreement" on energy trading to boost competition in the European power and heating sector. ... more
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ENERGY TECH

Ecuador renegotiates foreign oil contracts, cancels five
Ecuador said it has canceled five existing foreign oil contracts, including with US, South Korean and Chinese firms, and renegotiated eight more, after Tuesday's deadline to redo the deals to boost Quito's take ran out. ... more
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POLITICAL ECONOMY

Hong Kong developers slam 'heavy' property cooling measures
Property developers on Tuesday criticised government measures to rein in Hong Kong's soaring property prices, saying they will scare off ordinary home buyers rather than wealthy speculators. ... more
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