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  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 07, 2017 Although helium is the second most-abundant element (after hydrogen) in the universe, it doesn't play well with others. It is a member of a family of seven elements called the noble gases, which are called that because of their chemical aloofness - they don't easily form compounds with other elements. Helium, widely believed to be the most inert element, has no stable compounds under normal conditions. Now, an international team of researchers led by Skoltech's Prof. Artem R. Oganov (also a profes ... read more |
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Made-in-China large passenger plane targets 2017 debutChina's first homegrown big passenger plane will make its maiden voyage in the first half of this year, state media said Monday, as the country seeks to challenge foreign giants Airbus and Boeing. ... more  
Beijing's mayor vows step away from coalThe mayor of Beijing said the city would move to improve air quality across the region by taking a dramatic step away from the use of coal. ... more  
Climate change may overload US electrical grid: studyAs the planet warms due to climate change and hot days become more common, the US electrical grid could be unable to meet peak energy needs by century's end, researchers warned Monday. ... more  
Iran imports 149 tonnes of uranium from Russia: atomic chiefIran will receive the final part of a 149-tonne shipment of uranium from Russia as part of its nuclear deal with world powers, it was announced on Monday. ... more |
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Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticleBarely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles - such as those made from iron and platinum atoms - are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like har ... more  
Towards new IT devices with stable and transformable solitonsUnavoidably, each digital information we send around the globe is prone to be lost. Travelling long ways in wires, the initial signal decays and scatters by colliding with impurities and neighboring ... more 
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very smallGriffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a "quantum hard drive", much smaller than the memory required for conventional simulations. ... more  
Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paperThe concept behind microbial fuel cells, which rely on bacteria to generate an electrical current, is more than a century old. But turning that concept into a usable tool has been a long process. Mi ... more 
Flipping the switch on ammonia productionNearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The process, still in use today, ushered in a re ... more 
Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conductionA team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) at the Dresden University of Technolog ... more |
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Low-cost imaging system detects natural gas leaks in real timeResearchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low-cost, real-time detection of methane gas leaks in pipelines and at oil and gas facilities. Leaks of methane, the pr ... more 
Campus natural gas power plants pose no radon risksWhen Penn State decided to convert its two power plants from their historic use of coal as a source of energy to natural gas, there was concern about radon emissions. Although radon is known to exis ... more 
Russian researchers developed high-pressure natural gas operating turbine-generatorScientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed turbo expander electric generator operating on high-pressure natural gas. Natural gas being compressed at the po ... more 
More gas from North Sea for StatoilNorwegian energy company Statoil said Friday it found more gas in part of a field it discovered two years ago in the North Sea. ... more |
  
Without a significant effort to reduce greenhouse gases, including an accelerated deployment of technologies for capturing atmospheric carbon and storing it underground, and sustained growth in renewables such as wind and solar, the world could miss a key global temperature target set by the Paris Agreement and the long-term goal of net-zero climate pollution.
The finding, published in the ... more Climate change may overload US electrical grid: study Nordic countries are bringing about an energy transition worth copying Iraq inks billion-dollar power plant deal with GE |
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Most batteries are composed of two solid, electrochemically active layers called electrodes, separated by a polymer membrane infused with a liquid or gel electrolyte. But recent research has explored the possibility of all-solid-state batteries, in which the liquid (and potentially flammable) electrolyte would be replaced by a solid electrolyte, which could enhance the batteries' energy density ... more Building a better microbial fuel cell - using paper Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries Scientists take the first step toward creating efficient electrolyte-free batteries |
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Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has secured a Pounds 27 million contract with East Anglia One Limited to supply and install the land cable connection for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Comprising of 102 turbines, the Pounds 2.5 billion wind farm will generate sufficient electricity to power 500,000 homes.
The contract involves the ... more Russia's nuclear giant pushes into wind energy The power of wind energy and how to use it Largest US offshore wind farm gets green light |
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It may be up to the governments of U.S. states to take the lead in the effort to advance a low-carbon economy, the Natural Resources Defense Council said.
A review of federal data from the NRDC finds the U.S. renewable energy sector was one of the largest job creators in recent years. The estimated 350,000 people tied to the solar energy sector is greater than some parts of the conventi ... more Storing solar power increases energy consumption and emissions Academics build ultimate solar-powered water purifier Eltek to provide solar energy for hospitals in Zimbabwe under UNDP programme |
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  Japan's Toshiba is set to dramatically reduce its nuclear operations and stop building new atomic power plants after suffering billion of dollars of losses on US projects, a report said.
The engineering conglomerate, a once proud pillar of corporate Japan, is undergoing major restructuring after an accounting scandal and huge losses in its nuclear business.
The company now intends to ann ... more Iran imports 149 tonnes of uranium from Russia: atomic chief France's Areva picks up Japanese investors Canada uranium supplier, Fukushima operator in contract fight |
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Scientists have long known of the potential of microalgae to aid in the production of biofuels and other valuable chemicals. However, the difficulty and significant cost of growing microalgae have in some ways stalled further development of this promising technology. Bendy Estime, a biomedical and chemical engineering Ph.D. candidate, has devoted his research to this area, and developed a new te ... more Cathay Pacific to cut emissions with switch to biofuel DuPont Industrial Biosciences to develop new high-efficiency biogas enzyme method Populus dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites |
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 Maneuvering through a weakened energy sector by joining forces is a "necessary" step for Norway's offshore service vessel market, executives said.
Three companies - Farstad Shipping, Deep Sea Supply and Solstad Offshore - said they would team up under a united restructuring plan aimed at giving them leverage at a time when industry spending is suppressed.
Citing sentiments expr ... more Campus natural gas power plants pose no radon risks Low-cost imaging system detects natural gas leaks in real time Russian researchers developed high-pressure natural gas operating turbine-generator |
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The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving northward by as much as 400 kilometers and doubling rainfall in that northern reach. The monsoon's changes over the past 10,000 years likely altered the course of early human cultures in China, say the authors of a new study.
Researche ... more The ancient Indus civilization's adaptation to climate change EU ahead of the curve on climate fight Land-use change possibly produces more carbon dioxide than assumed so far |
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Danish green energy giant Dong said Thursday it was pulling out of coal use, burning another bridge to its fossil fuel past after ditching oil and gas.
Dong is the biggest wind power producer in Europe.
"The future belongs to renewable energy sources, and therefore we're now converting the last of our coal-fired power stations to sustainable biomass," said CEO Henrik Poulsen in a sta ... more Smog chokes coal-addicted Poland Beijing's mayor vows step away from coal Deutsche Bank to stop financing coal projects |
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China's plans for deep-space exploration included two Mars missions and one Jupiter probe.
China plans its first Mars probe by 2020, said Wu Yanhua, vice director of the China National Space Administration.
A second Mars probe will bring back samples and conduct research on the planet's structure, composition and environment, Wu said.
Also on the agenda are an asteroid explorat ... more China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A China Space Plan to Develop "Strength and Size" |
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Lockheed Martin and the Pentagon on Friday said the next batch of F-35 stealth fighters, the most expensive planes in history, will be produced at a reduced cost.
They announced $728 million in savings after President Donald Trump publically upbraided Lockheed over "out of control" costs, although most of the savings were already planned ahead of his involvement, during a months-long contrac ... more Canada negotiating F/A-18 Super Hornet buy Russia to acquire new MiG-35 light fighters UK's BAE Systems in deal with Turkey to develop new Turkish fighter jets |
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China's JAC Motors and a Mexican firm are teaming up to invest $212 million in a plant to produce sport-utility vehicles in central Mexico, officials said Wednesday amid trade tensions with the United States.
The deal will expand the capacity of a plant owned by the Mexican company, Giant Motors Latinoamerica, in Ciudad Sahagun, central Hidalgo state.
Giant Motors director Elias Massri s ... more Pedal power revival as bike-share apps race for glory Dieselgate drags on for VW and Bosch with new payouts Daimler to supply self-driving cars for Uber |
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According to a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 35% of black carbon in the Russian Arctic originates from residential heating sources, 38% comes from transport, while open fires, power plants, and gas flaring are responsible for only 12%, 9%, and 6% respectively.
These estimates confirm previous work for some areas of the European Arctic, ... more Graphene's sleeping superconductivity awakens Scientists turn graphene into working OLED electrodes, a first China's Decline in Coal Consumption Drives Global Slowdown in Emissions |
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An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth.
This huge leap forward towards creating a universal quantum computer is published in the influential journal Science Advances (1). It has long been known that such a computer would revolutionise indust ... more Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction The world's first heat-driven transistor Towards new IT devices with stable and transformable solitons |
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Researchers are trying to distill smart transit philosophy into a machine-learning algorithm. Scientists hope their smart transit model will reveal a recipe for a smarter city, organized in way that relieves the congestion common on the mass transit systems of major cities.
"Singapore needs an efficient transport system to support people's activities given the existing and planned infra ... more Hungary orders fraud probe into Budapest metro project 'Hyperloop' rail study for Slovakia-Czech connectionCities vie to hop on super-speedy hyperloop rail |
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The Philippine environment minister's move to close some two dozen mines sparked concern Sunday among two of her colleagues, who said it could hit the economy and employment.
The mining industry - accused of illegal tree felling and polluting rivers - has also questioned the order of Environment Secretary Gina Lopez.
The Philippines is the world's top supplier of nickel ore and the mai ... morePhilippines closes 23 mines over damage to environment Hungary court orders retrial over 2010 toxic spill Defense mechanism employed by algae can effectively inhibit marine fouling |
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