Morocco wind farm, Africa's biggest, starts generating power
Tarfaya, Morocco (AFP) April 24, 2014 -
Africa's largest wind farm, at Tarfaya in southwestern Morocco, has started generating electricity and will be capable of meeting the electricity needs of several hundred thousand people, officials say.
Installed on 10,000 hectares (24,700 acres) along the wind-blown southern Atlantic coast, the 80-metre (260 feet) high turbines, 131 in all, will be fully operational in October and produce u ...
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The UK solar strategy lays ground for a stable future
Englewood CO (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 -
The recently published second part of the UK Solar Strategy breeds optimism among participants in the UK PV market. However, the document remains vague on exact support measures to spur the commercial rooftop segment. Some key barriers are inherent in the nature of the UK real estate sector, such as the relation between tenants and owners, as pointed out in the strategy document.
IHS has r ...
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Coal still accounts for bulk of power on British grid
London (UPI) Apr 24, 2013 -
The share of renewable energy on the British grid increased in the three months ending in February, though coal still dominated, the government said Thursday.
The British Department of Energy and Climate Change published energy data from December to February.
For renewable energy resources, DECC said wind power dominated the sector with offshore wind capacity increasing 39 percen ...
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Cloaked DNA nanodevices survive pilot mission
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 -
It's a familiar trope in science fiction: In enemy territory, activate your cloaking device. And real-world viruses use similar tactics to make themselves invisible to the immune system. Now scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have mimicked these viral tactics to build the first DNA nanodevices that survive the body's immune defenses.
The results pa ...
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Oil Spill Clean Up In Arctic Waters Requires Increased Infrastructure
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 -
A changing climate is increasing the accessibility of U.S. Arctic waters to commercial activities such as shipping, oil and gas development, and tourism, raising concern about the risk of oil spills. A new report from the National Research Council says that a full suite of proven oil response tools is needed to address potential oil spills in U.S. Arctic waters, but not all of them are readily a ...
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High-Performance, Low-Cost Ultracapacitors Built with Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 -
By combining the powers of two single-atom-thick carbon structures, researchers at the George Washington University's Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory have created a new ultracapacitor that is both high performance and low cost.
The device, described in the Journal of Applied Physics, capitalizes on the synergy brought by mixing graphene flakes with single-walled carbon nanot ...
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Nanoreporters tell 'sour' oil from 'sweet'
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 25, 2014 -
Scientists at Rice University have created a nanoscale detector that checks for and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide in crude oil and natural gas while they're still in the ground.
The nanoreporter is based on nanometer-sized carbon material developed by a consortium of Rice labs led by chemist James Tour and is the subject of a new paper published this month in the American Che ...
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