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New solar cells could even work at nightIdaho Falls, Idaho (UPI) Dec 20, 2010 U.S. researchers say they've developed a new kind of solar cell that can generate energy even at night, promising a new form of renewable energy. The key is their ability to harvest infrared radiation as well as visible light, Steven Novack at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls says. Almost half of the available energy in the spectrum of solar radiation resides in the infrared band, and infrared is re-emitted as heat by the Earth's surface after the ... read more |
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  Icom North America Wins EPA Approval For Bi-Fuel Propane Engines Icom North America has attained the first U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval for its Liquid Injection Propane bi-fuel systems for the Ford 6.8 liter engines, produced for Ford Econoline v ... more | .. |
  New Ideas To Enhance Efficiency Of Wind Turbines One issue confronting the efficiency of wind as a promising renewable energy source is the wind itself-specifically, its changeability. While the aerodynamic performance of a wind turbine is best un ... more | .. |
 Southern Energy Management Installs 60 Residential Solar Water Heaters Seventy homes across South Carolina have been chosen to participate in a unique program that will bring solar energy to more families in the Palmetto State. The project by Central Electric Pow ... more | .. |
  Mississippi Biomass Project Scoping Continues National Clean Fuels has announced that its affiliate, the Center for Environment, Commerce and Energy (The Center), conducted a third successful scoping visit to Port Gibson, Miss., where the two c ... more |
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 California Approves Innovative Program To Spur Mid-Sized Developments The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted unanimously to approve a new program designed to drive small to mid-sized renewable energy development. Called a "Renewable Auction Mechan ... more | .. |
 Social Network For Photovoltaics Launches Ideas Contest Specialists from the photovoltaic sector now have their own international expert network: the Festo Engineering Network offers a convenient and efficient way of exchanging ideas within the community ... more | .. |
 Etrion Completes Oria Solar Park In Italy Etrion has announced the completion of the Oria solar park in Puglia, Italy. Marco Northland, Etrion's CEO, commented, "We are pleased to announce the completion of the Oria solar park built b ... more | .. |
  No China power plant for GDF Suez until prices clear: CEO French energy group GDF Suez will only enter the Chinese electricity generation market when there is clarity on the setting of power prices, the company's chief executive said Monday. ... more |
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  China tells local governments to curb land prices China has ordered local authorities to rein in rapid rises in land prices and pledged to crack down on shady developers, as Beijing struggles to keep a lid on the country's red-hot property market. ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: Euro fails again French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde was right to say over the weekend that it will take much stronger fiscal and economic coordination among EU member states for the euro to work. ... more | .. |
 Japan, S.Korea seal civilian nuclear pact Japan and South Korea sealed a civilian nuclear pact on Monday, paving the way for the Asian neighbours to share nuclear-power technologies and equipment, Japan's foreign ministry said. ... more | .. |
  Oil-soaked boom from BP spill recycled for GM's Volt Oil-soaked boom from the BP spill is being recycled into plastic parts for the plug-in Chevrolet Volt electric car, General Motors said Monday in a bid to boost its "clean and green" image. ... more |
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 Conergy shares climb after credit deal Conergy shares soared nearly 20 percent in Monday trading after the Hamburg solar module maker said it had reached an agreement with creditors to more than half the company's $420 million debt. ... more | .. |
 Australia scraps coal-fired CCS plant Australia has scrapped plans for a $4.3 billion Queensland coal-fired power station with carbon capture and storage capacity. ... more | .. |
  On the frontlines in Italy's 'little China' Italian police officers sweep through the mosquito-infested clothes workshop, rifling through personal belongings and cracking jokes about the foreign food as six Chinese labourers look on in fear. ... more | .. |
 Oil Sands report gives mixed reviews There is no credible evidence to support allegations that Canada's oil sands are the most "environmentally destructive project on Earth," says a report from the Royal Society of Canada. ... more |
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  Policies To Spur Renewable Energy Can Lower Energy Costs The South could pay less for its electricity in 20 years than is currently projected if strong public policies are enacted to spur renewable energy production and use, according to a report released ... more | .. |
 Malaysia aims to build two nuclear power plants Malaysia is looking to build two 1,000 megawatt nuclear power plants by 2022 to counter an "imbalance" in its energy supplies, the energy minister said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Computer Memory Takes A Spin University of Utah physicists stored information for 112 seconds in what may become the world's tiniest computer memory: magnetic "spins" in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Then the physicists ... more | .. |
  Physicist Developing And Improving Designer optical Materials Advancements in fabrication technologies may lead to superlenses and other designer optical materials, according to an Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory physicist. In an article titled ... more |
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 A New Electronic Structure For Generating Spin Current A research team from the Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia (ICN), in Barcelona, has demonstrated a device that induces electron spin motion without net electric currents, a key step in developing th ... more | .. |
 EU denies funding for fusion reactor A plan to save financing for a multinational nuclear fusion reactor project has been rejected at the last minute. ... more | .. |
 Electric Current Moves Magnetic Vortices one of the requirements to keep trends in computer technology on track - to be ever faster, smaller, and more energy-efficient - is faster writing and processing of data. In the Dec. 17 issue of the ... more | .. |
 Science's Breakthrough of The Year: The First Quantum Machine Until this year, all human-made objects have moved according to the laws of classical mechanics. Back in March, however, a group of researchers designed a gadget that moves in ways that can only be ... more |
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