Polysolar wins Cognicity Challenge
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
Polysolar has been selected as one of the winners of Canary Wharf Group's (CWG) global Smart Cities accelerator, the Cognicity Challenge. Polysolar was competing in a twelve-week accelerator programme at Canary Wharf under the 'Sustainable Buildings' accelerator stream.
Cognicity's accelerator programme aims to fast-track promising smart city technology businesses by providing a series of ...
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Printing silicon on paper, with lasers
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electronic circuitry has focused on various organic and metal-oxide ink materials, which often lack all the favorable electronic properties of silicon but offer superior "printability." ...
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Spear Point Energy Solar Project Helps County Achieve Renewable Energy Goal
Aspen CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
Spear Point Energy has completed the first of four 2.5-megawatt ground mount solar arrays in Hagerstown, Maryland. The second 2.5-megawatt array is nearing completion and will be placed in service within the next 30 days.
The four projects, totaling 10 megawatts of solar, will deliver an estimated $200,000 in annual energy savings to the Washington County government. In a ceremony on April ...
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Campbell Church Expects Electricity Bill Offset with High Efficiency SunPower Carport
Santa Clara CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
Vista Solar has announced the completion of a 183-kilowatt solar power carport system for Campbell Church of Christ and Campbell Christian School in Campbell, CA.
The four-carport system, which was designed and installed by Vista Solar, features high-efficiency SunPower solar panels, which deliver 50 percent more energy than conventional panels in the same amount of space.
"We went w ...
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World-first and new standard achieved in floating lidar as AXYS selects ZephIR 300
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
AXYS Technologies has achieved a world-first that is likely to become the new standard in floating lidar devices by deploying a dual ZephIR 300 arrangement on the leading WindSentinel buoy. The WindSentinel 'floating laboratory' delivers a customized full suite of meteorological and metocean data, in addition to the wind speed and direction data used for resource assessment, to better inform the ...
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'Holey' graphene for energy storage
San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2015 -
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a method to increase the amount of electric charge that can be stored in graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The research, published recently online in the journal Nano Letters, may provide a better understanding of how to improve the energy storage ability of capacitors for potential applications in cars, wind turbines ...
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Extending climate predictability beyond El Nino
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 22, 2015 -
Tropical Pacific climate variations and their global weather impacts may be predicted much further in advance than previously thought, according to research by an international team of climate scientists from the USA, Australia, and Japan.
The source of this predictability lies in the tight interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere and among the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian ...
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