Second stage of Snowtown Wind Farm blows away the competition
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 -
The Clean Energy Council has congratulated Trustpower and Siemens on the launch of the second stage of the Snowtown Wind Farm, but warned other projects would be few and far between under the Federal Government's current proposal to slash the Renewable Energy Target (RET).
Clean Energy Council Acting Chief Executive Kane Thornton said the second stage of the Snowtown project would power th ...
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Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 -
If you can uniformly break the symmetry of nanorod pairs in a colloidal solution, you're a step ahead of the game toward achieving new and exciting metamaterial properties. But traditional thermodynamic -driven colloidal assembly of these metamaterials, which are materials defined by their non-naturally-occurring properties, often result in structures with high degree of symmetries in the bulk m ...
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OPDE begins construction of a new 6.9 MWp solar farm in Hothfield, UK
Kent, UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 -
OPDE has started construction of a new 6.9 MWp solar farm near Ashford in Kent. The new solar farm represents a total investment of over Pounds 7 million and is scheduled to be connected to the electricity network by December.
The PV plant will comprise approximately 27,000 solar modules and will generate enough electricity to meet the equivalent annual demand of approximately 1,850 homes ...
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Rice chemists gain edge in next-gen energy
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 -
Rice University scientists who want to gain an edge in energy production and storage report they have found it in molybdenum disulfide. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has turned molybdenum disulfide's two-dimensional form into a nanoporous film that can catalyze the production of hydrogen or be used for energy storage.
The versatile chemical compound classified as a dichalcogenide is i ...
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Australia PM defends coal after UN warning on climate
Sydney (AFP) Nov 04, 2014 -
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Tuesday defended using coal to generate energy as "the foundation of our prosperity", after the United Nations warned that carbon emissions were leading to disaster.
UN climate experts said on Sunday that emissions of three key greenhouse gases were at their highest levels in more than 800,000 years and Earth was on track for temperatures to rise by a ...
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Germany faces suits worth billions over nuclear phase-out
Berlin (AFP) Nov 04, 2014 -
Germany's phase-out of nuclear energy has triggered over 20 lawsuits by big power companies who have demanded billions of euros in damages, said a government paper released Tuesday.
Berlin after Japan's 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster moved to immediately shutter the country's eight oldest reactors and close all others by 2022 while boosting renewable energy such as wind, solar and biomass. ...
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Disorder + disorder = more disorder?
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2014 -
If you took the junk from the back of your closet and combined it with the dirty laundry already on your floor, you would have an even bigger mess. While this principle will likely always hold true for our bedrooms, it turns out that in certain situations, combining messes can actually reduce the disorder of the whole.
An international team of researchers from Slovenia and Iran has identif ...
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