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![]() Beijing March 5, 2011 Reining in prices is China's "top priority" in 2011, as it strives for more balanced eight percent economic growth, Premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech Saturday to open the annual session of parliament. Wen laid out China's economic and fiscal priorities for both the coming year and the next five years in his "state of the nation" speech, cautioning that the country's situation would be complicated due to a slow global recovery. The premier also said Beijing would work to curb an influx of cross ... read more |
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![]() China pledges 'green' push over next five years Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday pledged that China, the world's top emitter of greenhouse gases, would work harder to save energy and clean up the air as it revamps the economy over the next five years. ... more | .. |
![]() China's huge labour pool shows signs of drying up As one of the more than 200 million people in China's huge migrant workforce, Lu Jun has had to hustle for jobs his entire life, but suddenly he finds he has more choices and bargaining power than ever. ... more | .. |
![]() SunWize Partners With SunRun For Simpler Home Solar Power SunWize Systems has announced it has partnered with SunRun, the nation's leading home solar service company. This partnership allows SunWize to offer California homeowners more affordable solar powe ... more | .. |
Amazon takes on iPad with new Kindle Fire tablet Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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![]() Boeing Leaders To Address Bio-Fuels At Asian Aerospace 2011 Experts from Boeing will present key trends at Asian Aerospace 2011 and discuss their implications for commercial aviation. Asian Aerospace takes place March 8-10, at AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong. ... more | .. |
![]() Clear Skies Passes Milestone Clear Skies Solar has announced that it has received another round of project funding fueling the pipeline of work. "We have received additional LOI's from our investors representing funding f ... more | .. |
![]() Custom Packaging Completes Solar PV Installation Custom Packaging has completed a 100 kW solar photovoltaic system on the roof of its Lebanon, Tenn. facility. The system is the largest in the region, according to Middle Tennessee EMC. Inman ... more | .. |
![]() New Study To Look At Economics, Groundwater Use Of Bioenergy Feedstocks Biofuel feedstock production in the Texas High Plains could significantly change the crop mix, which could affect regional income and groundwater consumption, according to Texas AgriLife Research an ... more |
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![]() FPL Unveils World's First Hybrid Solar Energy Center Florida Power and Light Company, along with Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolos, local public officials, construction workers, engineers, environmental experts and bus ... more | .. |
![]() Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Brayton Cycle Turbines Promise Giant Leap Sandia National Laboratories researchers are moving into the demonstration phase of a novel gas turbine system for power generation, with the promise that thermal-to-electric conversion efficiency w ... more | .. |
![]() Japanese Scientists Use Alcoholic Drinks To Induce Superconductivity Japanese researchers have been immersing iron-based compounds in hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu to induce superconductivity. Scientists from the National Institute f ... more | .. |
![]() Strategic Partnership For Triple-Digit Megawatt Sales BELECTRIC Trading has signed a three-year contract with Solar Frontier to sell and install Solar Frontier's proprietary CIS modules at a volume in the three-digit megawatt range, which will be produ ... more |
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![]() Arab unrest and the 'End of the Oil Age' The shock waves from the political upheaval engulfing Arab oil producers are causing immense changes that could shrink the global oil economy, says U.S. energy expert Michael T. Klare. ... more | .. |
![]() Microorganism creates fuel, company says A Cambridge, Mass., company says its genetically engineered microorganism can produce diesel fuel. ... more | .. |
![]() From sports cars to slums: China's huge wealth gap Li Fu is 29, owns five cars including a Ferrari and has a diamond-encrusted cell phone. Wang Qingzhan is 44, works as a cleaner and lives with his family in a tiny room that is about to be torn down. ... more | .. |
![]() New Generation Of Optical Integrated Devices For Future Quantum Computers A research group led by scientists from the University of Bristol has demonstrated the quantum operation of new components that will enable compact circuits for future photonic quantum computers. ... more |
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![]() Clean Fuel Worsens Climate Impacts For Some Vehicle Engines A pioneering program by one of the world's largest cities to switch its vehicle fleet to clean fuel has not significantly improved harmful vehicle emissions in more than 5,000 vehicles - and worsene ... more | .. |
![]() Turning Bacteria Into Butanol Biofuel Factories University of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could soon provide an ... more | .. |
![]() NIST Expert Software Lowers The Stress On Materials Problems Before you can build that improved turbojet engine, before you can create that longer-lasting battery, you have to ensure all the newfangled materials in it will behave the way you want-even under c ... more | .. |
![]() JQI Physicists Demonstrate Coveted Spin-Orbit Coupling In Atomic Gases Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time cau ... more |
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![]() New MIT Developments In Quantum Computing Quantum computers are computers that exploit the weird properties of matter at extremely small scales. Many experts believe that a full-blown quantum computer could perform calculations that would b ... more | .. |
![]() Sugarcane Bioethanol: Environmental Implications Researchers have long promoted biofuels produced from crop biomass as an environmentally sustainable source of renewable energy. A recent study questions whether the potential climate benefit of sug ... more | .. |
![]() Sewage Plant Waste Water As A Huge New Energy Source The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning podcast series, "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions," focuses on the discovery that household sewage has far more potenti ... more | .. |
![]() Carbon Offsets Provide Unique New Option For Landowners It is a common sight across this country, bulldozers felling trees making way for new subdivisions and shopping malls, often the property becoming available because it was the only financially viabl ... more |
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![]() Smart Grid Panel Agrees On Data-Exchange Standards For Electricity Usage The governing board of the public-private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard important for two-way data communications between utilities and their customer ... more | .. |
![]() UC San Diego Campus Apartments Immerse Students In Sustainability "Wind scoops" pull Pacific breezes into the energy-efficient rooms in UC San Diego's newest student apartments, cooling them the old-fashioned way in buildings aligned to capitalize on wind and sola ... more | .. |
![]() GL Garrad Hassan Delivers Wind Map Of Lebanon Lebanon is planning to generate 12 percent of its electricity from renewable energies in 2020 according to official reports. To support an emergent wind industry in the country, GL Garrad Hassan has ... more | .. |
![]() Making Solar Panels Greener With more than enough sunlight beaming down on Earth to supply humanity's immense energy demands, there's little doubt that photovoltaic technology will play a significant role in sating these appet ... more |
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![]() EverGEN Solar Powered Lights Selected For Popular City Bike Path Carmanah Technologies is pleased to announce that the City of Los Angeles has selected Carmanah EverGEN 1710 solar powered lights to light a popular bicycle path. The EverGEN 1710 was selected becau ... more | .. |
![]() PV Evolution Labs Launches Independent Solar Testing Facilities PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) has secured two facilities in Northern California which will further its ability to provide the most comprehensive PV performance and reliability evaluation in the industry. ... more | .. |
![]() Enecsys Announces The Cost-Saving, Solar PV Duo Enecsys Limited has announced the Enecsys Duo micro-inverter. This 360-Watt addition to the Enecsys micro-inverter family is the world's highest power density micro-inverter with dimensions of 262 x ... more | .. |
![]() After 50 Years, Nuclear Power Is Still Not Viable Without Subsidies Since its inception more than 50 years ago, the U.S. nuclear power industry has been propped up by a generous array of government subsidies that have supported its development and operations. ... more |
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