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America's clean energy policies need a reality check, say Stanford researchersStanford CA (SPX) May 02, 2012 America's approach to clean energy needs to be reformed if it is to meaningfully affect energy security or the environment, according to two new articles by Stanford writers. The debate over how to fundamentally change the world's massive energy system comes amid taxpayers' $500 million tab for the bankruptcy of Fremont, Calif., solar company Solyndra, the global recession, government budget cuts and plunging U.S. prices for natural gas. Making the change cost-effectively will be crucial, write Je ... read more |
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  High-Yield Method for Producing Everyday Plastics from Biomass A team of chemical engineers led by Paul J. Dauenhauer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a new, high-yield method of producing the key ingredient used to make plastic bottles ... more | .. |
  Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires-those superstars of nanotechnology-can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chai ... more | .. |
 Single nanomaterial yields many laser colors Red, green, and blue lasers have become small and cheap enough to find their way into products ranging from BluRay DVD players to fancy pens, but each color is made with different semiconductor mate ... 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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 Folding light: Wrinkles and twists boost power from solar panels Taking their cue from the humble leaf, researchers have used microscopic folds on the surface of photovoltaic material to significantly increase the power output of flexible, low-cost solar cells. ... more | .. |
 Avidan Management Announces Solar Power Project in Edison New Jersey Avidan Management has announced a large-scale solar power project at 180 Raritan Center Parkway, a 350,000-square-foot dry and freezer storage facility in Edison, N.J. The firm has commenced the ins ... more | .. |
 Solar Array at Oberlin College Oberlin College has entered into a power purchasing agreement with Spear Point Energy to purchase electricity from a 2.27-megawatt (MW) solar array to be constructed on college property. It will be ... more | .. |
 Panasonic Solar Panels Installed at New City Nissan in Honolulu Panasonic announces that New City Nissan, Hawaii's biggest and number one selling Nissan dealer in Honolulu, Hawai'i, has installed a 305.7-kilowatt Panasonic solar system to generate additional rev ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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 Trina Solar launches partner programme for installers in UK Trina Solar has announced that it will launch its partner programme for installers in the UK on the 1st of May 2012. The programme is called Trina Solar Partner Plus and offers a number of benefits ... more | .. |
  Brazil's gas find heralds a 'golden age' Brazil says natural gas finds on land herald a golden age of the energy resource and will likely reduce dependence on gas imports from Bolivia. ... more | .. |
 China posed for more investment in shale? China invested $222 million in its shale gas sector last year, a government official said. ... more | .. |
  Ford, GM sales skid as Chrysler, Toyota accelerate General Motors and Ford saw their US sales skid in April as rivals Chrysler, Toyota and Volkswagen posted strong gains, industry data showed Tuesday. ... more |
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  Android, Samsung hold off Apple in US mobile space Google's Android system has grabbed more than 50 percent of the US smartphone market, while Samsung cemented its leadership as the top device maker, a survey showed Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Hackers pick Google's pocket with Mac virus A virus infecting Macintosh computers is picking Google's pocket by hijacking advertising "clicks," tallying as much as $10,000 daily, according to Internet security firm Symantec. ... more | .. |
 Greenpeace occupies Arctic-bound Shell icebreaker in Finland Twenty Greenpeace activists chained themselves to an icebreaker in Helsinki's harbour on Tuesday in a bid to block Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell's plans to drill for oil in the Arctic. ... more | .. |
 BP profits slide on lower oil output BP net profits sank 18 percent in the first quarter on lower oil output triggered by the sale of assets to meet costs of the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster, the British energy giant said on Tuesday. ... more |
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Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
Are Unlocked Phones Any Good? Unlocked vs. Locked Phone Benefits
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 April oil exports highest since 1989: Iraq Iraq's crude exports in April were the highest monthly figure in more than 20 years, oil ministry spokesman Assem Jihad said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Tests of aviation jet biofuel to start U.S. tech firm Honeywell says it is starting one of the aviation industry's first comprehensive test programs for aviation biofuel. ... more | .. |
  China manufacturing at 13-month high China's manufacturing activity rose in April to a 13-month high, official data showed Tuesday, indicating the world's number two economy may have bottomed out in the second quarter. ... more | .. |
 Australian rare earths miner sues Malaysian opponents Australian rare earths miner Lynas has launched legal action against the most vitriolic opponents of its proposed plant in Malaysia following fierce criticism that it is unsafe. ... more |
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  Electric charge disorder: A key to biological order? Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges can make a di ... more | .. |
  NASA Satellite Measurements Imply Texas Wind Farm Impact on Surface Temperature A Texas region containing four of the world's largest wind farms showed an increase in land surface temperature over nine years that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the ... more | .. |
 Scientists find night-warming effect over large wind farms in Texas Large wind farms in certain areas in the United States appear to affect local land surface temperatures, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The study, led by Liming ... more | .. |
 Attosecond lighthouses may help illuminate the tempestuous sea of electrons Physicists have long chased an elusive goal: the ability to "freeze" and then study the motion of electrons in matter. Such experiments could help confirm theories of electron motion and yield insig ... more |
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Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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Student-devised process would prep shale gas for sale A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly products and did so in a cost-effective ma ... more | .. |
 Notre Dame paper examines nanotechnology-related safety and ethics problem A recent paper by Kathleen Eggleson, a research scientist in the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) at the University of Notre Dame, provides an example of a nanotechnology-related safe ... more | .. |
 Superconducting strip could become an ultra-low-voltage sensor Researchers studying a superconducting strip observed an intermittent motion of magnetic flux which carries vortices inside the regularly spaced weak conducting regions carved into the superconducti ... more | .. |
 Maintaining bridges on a budget What if there was a way to vastly improve the safety, durability and sustainability of bridges across North America without increasing spending? This was the question Saleh Abu Dabous set out to ans ... more |
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 China sets fines for Bohai oil spill China has ordered oil giant ConocoPhillips and China National Offshore Oil Corp. to pay $269 million for oil spills at a Bohai Bay oilfield run by Conoco. ... more | .. |
 Iceland firm to study green energy cable Iceland's state-owned renewable energy company says it will study the feasibility of laying the world's longest submarine electric cable to Europe. ... more | .. |
 A new generation of ultra-small and high-precision lasers emerges Ultra fast, robust, stable, and high precision: these are some of the characteristics of a new laser developed by an international research team. This ultra-small laser paves the way for a new gener ... more | .. |
 Kuwaiti MP questions oil deal with China A Kuwaiti opposition MP on Monday questioned what he called a "suspicious" deal to supply China's Sinopec with 300,000 barrels per day of oil for 10 years. ... more |
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