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![]() London, UK (SPX) Nov 24, 2010 A clearer understanding of the Universe, its origins and maybe even its destiny is a significant step closer, thanks to new research. As part of a major international experiment called ALPHA, based at CERN in Switzerland, researchers have helped to achieve trapping and holding atoms of 'anti-hydrogen', which has not previously been possible. The project involves physicists at Swansea University led by Professor Mike Charlton, Dr Niels Madsen and Dr Dirk Peter van der Werf and the University of Liv ... read more |
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![]() Boeing To Mass-Produce Industry's Most Efficient Terrestrial Solar Cell 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, C ... more | .. |
![]() Enhancing The Efficiency Of Wind Turbines A milestone in the history of renewable energy occurred in the year 2008 when more new wind-turbine power generation capacity was added in the U.S. than new coal-fired power generation. The costs of ... more | .. |
![]() LockMart Continues Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion The U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded Lockheed Martin a $4.4 million contract modification to advance the design for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) pilot plant off the coa ... more | .. |
![]() NERSC Supercomputing Center Breaks The Petaflops Barrier The Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), already one of the world's leading centers for scientific productivity, is now home to the fifth most powerfu ... more |
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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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 | .. |
![]() 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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