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Pioneer Installs Dupont Solar Power System in Hawaii

DuPont has installed its largest photovoltaic solar energy facility at its Pioneer Hi-Bred Waimea Research Center in Kauai, Hawaii

29 Jan 2009

Alcoa Named as One of the Most Sustainable Corporations in the World

Alcoa announced today that it was named as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world in the fifth annual Global 100 ranking of the top role models in sustainable business practices, during the World Economic Forum

29 Jan 2009

Scientists Say We Are Being Hurt By the Things We Don't Know About the Environment

Knowledge gaps continue to hobble scientists' assessments of the environment, a Michigan State University researcher and colleagues warn. Their warning follows sobering conclusions drawn from what they do know and could help set the global agenda for research funding in the years to come

29 Jan 2009

Propel Fuels Brings Renewable Fuel and Green Jobs to California

Propel Fuels, a leading retailer of clean, renewable fuels, officially launches the first of a state-wide network of low-carbon fueling stations today

29 Jan 2009

Glaciers Keep Melting at High Rates

Glaciers around the globe continue to melt at high rates. Tentative figures for the year 2007, of the World Glacier Monitoring Service at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, indicate a further loss of average ice thickness of roughly 0.67 meter water equivalent

29 Jan 2009

Flashing a Hollywood Smile Like Tom Cruise is Damaging to Eyes and Skin

UV light-enhanced tooth bleaching is not only a con, but is dangerous to your eyes and skin, says a Royal Society of Chemistry journal

29 Jan 2009

Environmentally Friendly Hard Drive Launched With 2TB Capacity

WD today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's highest capacity drive and the latest addition to WD's popular, environmentally friendly, cool and quiet, WD Caviar Green hard drive family

29 Jan 2009

Report Says CIGS Solar Cells to be Wonder Child of Thin Film Photovoltaics

CIGS - a photovoltaic material technology made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium - is expected to fulfill its potential as the wonder child of the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) materials business

29 Jan 2009

Ocean Fertilization Project Opposed by WWF

A recent decision by the German government to give the go-ahead to a controversial large-scale ocean fertilization experiment (LOHAFEX) in international waters of the Southern Ocean has left WWF doubting Germany's commitment to global agreements on the environment

29 Jan 2009

Research Aircraft Fly From the Arctic to the Antarctic to Study Greenhouse Gases

A team of scientists has successfully flown from the Arctic to the Antarctic this month aboard an advanced research aircraft, the first step in a three-year project to make the most extensive airborne measurements of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to date

29 Jan 2009

Test Power Plant an Important Step For the Introduction of Nuclear Fusion Energy

Fusion is a promising option for a large scale energy production for the second half of this century and beyond. Fusion has practically unlimited fuel resources, and it is safe and environmentally sound

29 Jan 2009

NASA Set to Launch Satellite for Studying Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere

NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide is in final preparations for a Feb. 23 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California

29 Jan 2009

Paper Released on Improving Generator Efficiency

A new white paper on "Improving Gearmotor Efficiency" posted on the Bison Gear and Engineering Corp website addresses the relatively untapped energy savings to be had with the proper application of the billions of fractional horsepower electric motors and gearmotors in use today

29 Jan 2009

CIGS to Fulfill Its Potential as a Photovoltaic Wonder Material

CIGS - a photovoltaic material technology
made of copper-indium-gallium-selenium - will fulfill its potential as the wonder
child of the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) materials business.

29 Jan 2009