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Asian Countries Look to Obama on Climate Change

People in developing Asia pin their hopes for a new global climate treaty mainly on one man: Barack Obama, according to a new poll

23 Sep 2009

Electric Car Designed and Built By First Year University Students

First-year university students have designed and built a groundbreaking electric car that recharges itself and does away with axles and gear boxes

23 Sep 2009

Siemens Introduces New Photovoltaic Inverter Family for Professional Solar Power Plants

Siemens is set to substantially extend its share in the PV (photovoltaics) inverter market. A current IMS Research study has shown that the PV plant market is expected to grow by at least 30 per cent annually until 2013, with the expectation that the
growth rate will be disproportionately high in the commercial and power plant segment

23 Sep 2009

World Record Efficiency for Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Solar Cells

Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, today announced that it has achieved a new stabilized record efficiency level for amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction PV cells

23 Sep 2009

Cooling With Microchannels to Help Develop Better Electronics For Electric Cars, Hybrid Cars, Aircraft and Computers

Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels" has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers and other devices

23 Sep 2009

Cheap, High Performance Batteries of the Future May Be Made From Graphene and Titanium Dioxide

Researchers would like to develop lithium-ion batteries using titanium dioxide, an inexpensive material

23 Sep 2009

Applied Materials Signs Contract With ENN Solar Energy

Applied Materials announced that it has signed a five-year contract with ENN Solar Energy Co., Ltd. to support ENN’s solar photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing facility in Langfang, China, which features an Applied SunFab Thin Film Line

23 Sep 2009

Gloves Come Off In Toxic Chinese Drywall Case

Americas Watchdog's Chinese Drywall Complaint Center has been doing
everything possible to assist the hundreds of thousands of US homeowners, who now live in a toxic, & potentially lethal home, because of imported Chinese drywall

23 Sep 2009

Putting Out The Trash Could Make You Money

Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant and profitable stroll

23 Sep 2009

Linde Leading the Photovoltaic Industry in Reducing the Carbon Impact of Solar Power

In a run up to the largest Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, is encouraging the thin-film PV industry to shift focus from grid parity to green parity

22 Sep 2009

World's First Tandem Electric Bicycle Developed by PEDEGO

PEDEGO, an electric bicycle company creating the coolest electric bicycles outfitted with the latest in electric technology, announces the debut of the world's first electric tandem bicycle

22 Sep 2009

Alcoa and Exal to Promote New Water Purification System Technology at G-20 Summit

Alcoa, the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, and Exal Corporation, the world’s leading manufacturer of specialized aluminum packaging, have joined together to help promote newly developed water purification technology set to be introduced prior to the G-20 Summit

22 Sep 2009