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Obey optimises bioenergy yieldLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2012 Since the global increase in energy use is showing few signs of slowing down, sustainable energy solutions have to be developed. For this reason, the energy of biomass has to be used more widely and more efficiently. In forests all over the world a huge amount of logging residue is left lying idle and the bioenergy unused. This could be changed by using Obey, a procedure for optimising bioenergy yield, based on long, Nordic traditions. Obey is an acronym for "Optimising the bioenergy yield", refer ... read more |
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  Southern Energy Management Builds Large Solar Array For IDEAL Fastener Southern Energy Management (SEM) is helping the world's second largest zipper manufacturer with sustainability efforts by installing its first solar array. IDEAL Fastener Corporation hired SEM to de ... more | .. |
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 Use and Capacity of Global Hydropower Increases Global use of hydropower increased more than 5 percent between 2009 and 2010, according to new research published by the Worldwatch Institute for its Vital Signs Online publication. Hydropower use r ... more | .. |
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 DuPont and Yingli Collaborate on High Efficiency Solar DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DuPont) and Yingli Green Energy Holding are collaborating to advance technology for higher efficiency solar cells, new module manufacturing processes and innovative co ... more | .. |
  Natural Power appointed as Owner's Engineer on 20.5MW Sixpenny Wood wind farm Leading international renewable energy consultancy group Natural Power has been appointed as Owner's Engineer at Sixpenny Wood wind farm for AES Wind Generation, a subsidiary of the energy company A ... more | .. |
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 Converteam Acquisition Launches GE into the $30 Billion Power Conversion Market Don Quixote in his madness tilted at windmills but wind turbines also exhibit their own kind of capricious behavior. In a wind gust they spin away, churning kilowatts of electricity. But in a breeze ... more |
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 Aquatic power generator takes to the sea An aquatic system likened to a bicycle pump is set to take to the seas and turn wave power into clean electricity, a British company says. ... more | .. |
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 Cooling semiconductor by laser light Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two worlds - quantum physics and nano physics, and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. ... more |
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