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Affordability Of Batteries Key To Harnessing Wind And Solar PowerRichland WA (SPX) Mar 08, 2011 Future batteries used by the energy grid to store power from the wind and sun must be reliable, durable and safe, but affordability is really the key to widespread deployment, according to a new report published online March 4 in the journal Chemical Reviews. The report is one of the most comprehensive reviews of electrochemical energy storage to date. In the report, researchers from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory say that successful electrochemical energy storage ... read more |
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  Using Proteins As Raw Material For Biofuels And Biorefining Two types of raw materials are currently used for biorefining and biofuel production: carbohydrates and lipids. Biofuels like ethanol are derived from carbohydrate raw materials such as sugars and l ... more | .. |
 BESC Scores A First With Isobutanol Directly From Cellulose In the quest for inexpensive biofuels, cellulose proved no match for a bioprocessing strategy and genetically engineered microbe developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's BioEnergy Scie ... more | .. |
  BlueChip Energy Signs Agreement To Acquire Land For 40MW Solar Farm BlueChip Energy (BCE) has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire land in Central Florida for the development of a 40 megawatt (MW) capacity solar farm. The largest photovoltaic ( ... more | .. |
 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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 JA Solar And MEMC Announce Solar Cell Production Joint Venture JA Solar Holdings and MEMC Electronic Materials have announced a joint venture agreement between JA Solar and MEMC's affiliate, MEMC Singapore, to build and operate a solar cell production facility ... more | .. |
 Intersolar Europe 2011 On Course For Continued Success From June 8-10, 2011, Intersolar Europe will once again take center stage in the international solar industry at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. The world's largest exhibition for the solar indust ... more | .. |
 LADWP And SolarWorld Partner To Develop Solar Power System The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has joined forces with SolarWorld to develop an 11.6-megawatt (MW) DC solar system that will generate enough clean, renewable solar energy to po ... more | .. |
 PSE and G's Central Headquarters Solar System Complete Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE and G) today marked the completion of a rooftop solar installation at the utility's Central Division Headquarters in Somerset, NJ. The 0.9-megawatt syste ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 China announces green targets China announced a series of green targets proposed in its latest five-year plan to be voted on this week. ... more | .. |
  Canada, U.S., not China, top mining deals Many experts have warned of China's natural resources buying spree but a new report suggests that North American companies far surpassed their competitors from Asia in mining deals in 2010. ... more | .. |
 Arab revolts jolt West into reassessing policies The revolts shaking the Arab world are forcing Western powers to reassess their foreign policy in the region, long focused on self-interest rather than promoting democratic principles, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 Expert says Czech solar power boom to slow The Czech Republic's solar power boom is set to slow this year after scoring Europe's third-fastest increase in installed output in 2010, an expert said Monday, blaming new taxes and rules. ... more |
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 Spill no reason to halt deep sea drilling: BP chairman Last year's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill sparked by an explosion on a BP-leased platform is no reason to stop deep sea drilling, the group's chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Iceland eyeing giant cable to sell power to Europe Iceland is considering building the world's longest sub-sea electric cable to allow it to sell its geothermal and volcanic energy to Europe, the country's largest energy company said Monday. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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Dogs of war: China touts killer robot 'wolves'
US government gets a year of ChatGPT Enterprise for $1
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 Microorganism creates fuel, company says A Cambridge, Mass., company says its genetically engineered microorganism can produce diesel fuel. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 Sun is shining on Asian tourism trade The sun is shining on the tourism trade in Asia-Pacific with double-digit growth notched up in 2010, spurred largely by Chinese and Indian middle classes packing their bags for a break abroad. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
Mattel closes Barbie concept store in China US toy maker Mattel on Monday shut the world's first and only Barbie concept store after just two years, ending an ambitious marketing push to boost the iconic American doll's sales in China. ... more | .. |
  Carnival seeks to rid Haiti of its ills Some danced in memory of quake victims and others dressed as "Mrs Cholera" as Haitians marked the return of carnival hoping to exorcise some of the tragedies that have plagued the nation. ... more |
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