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Researchers Confronts the Greatest Climate Challenges Facing Planet Earth

Young Researchers Take Part in the First Round Table Meeting of the DFG and the JSPS to Discuss New Approaches in the Fight Against Global Warming.

15 Jan 2008

Yingli Green Energy Signs Sales Contract to Supply 7 MW of PV Modules

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the leading vertically integrated photovoltaic (PV) product manufacturers in China, today announced that it has signed a sales contract with EDF Energies Nouvelles.

14 Jan 2008

Climate-Driven Phenomenon Controls Biological Processes of Deep-Sea Living Resource

In an article published in the January 16 issue of PLoS ONE, Joan B. Company and colleagues at the Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC) in Spain describe a mechanism of interaction across ecosystems showing how a climate-driven phenomenon originated in shelf environments controls the biological processes of a deep-sea living resource.

14 Jan 2008

Report Shows Potential Impacts of Human-Induced Climate Change on Wildlife

A landmark advance in our understanding of the potential impacts of human-induced climate change on wildlife has been published today.

14 Jan 2008

Young Physicist Rewarded for Work on Plastic Electronics

An Imperial physics postgraduate student has been awarded a prestigious national prize for his PhD thesis.

14 Jan 2008

Scientists Embarking on the Largest Research Projects into Photovoltaic Solar Energy

A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.

14 Jan 2008

Biomass from Bushes has High Energy Production Potential

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has studied the profitability of using bush chips in electricity production in Namibia, where biomass from bushes has great energy production potential. Namibia suffers from the overgrowth of bush, which is disruptive to cattle raising, the country's primary source of livelihood. VTT also developed the production technology for bush chips.

14 Jan 2008

Forty Hybrid Verizon Sedans are Now on the Road in NY State

Forty hybrid sedans will replace traditional gasoline-powered vehicles in Verizon's local fleet.

14 Jan 2008

Commercial B767 is Substantially More Fuel Efficient than Larger Airbus 330

The Boeing Company today released a 53-page study prepared by Conklin & de Decker Aviation Information showing that a commercial 767 airplane is substantially more fuel efficient than the larger Airbus 330.

14 Jan 2008

Big Business for Small Wind Turbines

When someone mentions "wind energy," what usually come to mind are the fields of giant utility-grade wind turbines located off the coasts of many countries and on mountain tops everywhere, and small residential-grade windmill-style turbines designed for personal use.

14 Jan 2008

Renewable Energy Powering New Mexico's Growth

SCHOTT AG, will construct a new solar energy technology production facility in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, NM.

14 Jan 2008

General Motors Emphasizes on Reducing the Environmental Impact of Vehicles

GM’s NAIAS portfolio emphasizes design and technology that deliver capability and performance while reducing environmental impact.

14 Jan 2008

GM at the Forefront of Developing and Promoting Ethanol-Capable Vehicles

General Motors’ global leadership in producing vehicles that operate on ethanol fuel blends is a key part of its commitment to reinvent the automobile through a range of clean transportation technologies that reduce greenhouse gas (CO2) emissions and petroleum use.

13 Jan 2008

Enel Announces Completion of the Tallest Utility-Scale Wind Turbines

Enel SpA, through its subsidiary Enel North America, Inc., announced today the completion of a wind farm in Texas with the tallest utility-scale wind turbines in the United States as well as investments by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, the energy investing unit of GE.

13 Jan 2008

Cutting Mercury Emissions from Electric Power Plants

Washington University in St. Louis is partnering with Chrysler LLC and a major Midwest utility company in a project to determine if paint solid residues from automobile manufacturing can reduce emissions of mercury from electric power plants.

13 Jan 2008