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IMEC Forms New Solar Cell Partnerships

IMEC today announced that it has established new partnerships with solar cell material and equipment suppliers

14 Jul 2009

Green Potential of Polyvinyl Alcohol Examined in New Report

iSmithers Rapra Publishing has announced the release of Polyvinyl Alcohol: Materials, Processing and Applications

14 Jul 2009

Environmentally Friendly Method for Making Nanoparticles

Scientists have discovered a new environmentally friendly method to synthesize a wide variety of nanoparticles inexpensively

13 Jul 2009

Recycling Waste Material From Old Televisions for Medical Use

Waste material from discarded televisions could be recycled and used in medicine, according to new research by scientists at the University of York

13 Jul 2009

Climate Change Modelling to Feature at Australian Conference This Week

Australia's top models will take centre stage in Cairns this week as scientists meet to discuss ways to understand climate change, improve air safety and enhance agricultural sustainability

13 Jul 2009

Wealthy Nations Fail to Take Responsibility For Climate Change

Rich and poor nations have not been able to overcome divisions and mistrust during the Major Economies Forum (MEF) and the G8 summit and while some progress was made, leaders of wealthy nations failed to take responsibility for climate change

12 Jul 2009

UN Wants More Ambitious Climate Change Targets as G8 Summit Fails to Make Big Changes

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the G8 agreement on a long term goal to reduce emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, but says it is still not enough to reach a fair, effective climate agreement

12 Jul 2009

G8 Fails on Climate Change Defers Action Until 2050, It's Up to the Public Now

As the G8 meeting in Italy ended with scant progress on saving the climate, Greenpeace called for massive public pressure to demand that the world's wealthiest governments take decisive action on climate change

12 Jul 2009

Gasoline Composition is Changing

Increasing availability of renewable fuels like ethanol is changing the composition of the fuels offered to American drivers. With these changes in mind, the Renewable Fuels Foundation (RFF) has released its definitive resource on gasoline quality, "Changes in Gasoline Manual IV".

12 Jul 2009

Argonne National Lab and Turkey Team Up on Green Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will play a key role in a Clean Energy Partnership recently announced between Turkey's Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (MENR) and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency

12 Jul 2009

Applied Materials Shows Strategy For Making Solar Power Affordable for Everyone, Everywhere

Applied Materials, the world's largest supplier of solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing equipment, will showcase its strategy to make solar power affordable for everyone, everywhere, at the Intersolar North America event in San Francisco next week

12 Jul 2009

Environmentally Friendly Lubricating Grease Made From Biomaterials

A team of researchers from the University of Huelva has developed an environmentally-friendly lubricating grease based on ricin oil and cellulose derivatives, according to the journal Green Chemistry. The new formula does not include any of the contaminating components used to manufacture traditional industrial lubricants

12 Jul 2009

Biomaterials From SABIC Increase Options for Environmentally Sustainable Products

SABIC Innovative Plastics launches two new products in a line of LNP Thermocomp specialty compounds that use curaua fiber and wood flour natural reinforcements. These new materials can be used for a variety of applications including automotive interiors and packaging

12 Jul 2009

Suncatcher Solar Power Dishes Unveiled at Sandia

Stirling Energy Systems (SES) and Tessera Solar recently unveiled four newly designed solar power collection dishes at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF)

12 Jul 2009

Turning Waste From Making Beer Into Green Power

Brewing beer creates tonnes of leftover used grains. But that waste can be turned into fuel, as a EUREKA-backed partnership of German and Slovakian developers has shown

12 Jul 2009