Sky Solar and Hudson Clean Energy to fund up to $100 million in solar projects
Hong Kong (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
Sky Solar Holdings and Hudson Clean Energy Partners have formed a new strategic partnership to fund solar projects in Latin America and Japan with a total capital commitment from Hudson of up to $100 million. The two parties have also agreed to collaborate on an expansion into the U.S. solar market.
As part of this partnership, Hudson will invest $50 million in the construction of approxim ...
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UCLA physicists determine 3-D positions of individual atoms for the first time
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
Atoms are the building blocks of all matter on Earth, and the patterns in which they are arranged dictate how strong, conductive or flexible a material will be. Now, scientists at UCLA have used a powerful microscope to image the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms to a precision of 19 trillionths of a meter, which is several times smaller than a hydrogen atom.
Their observatio ...
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The structural memory of water persists on a picosecond timescale
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) in Mainz, Germany and FOM Institute AMOLF in the Netherlands have characterized the local structural dynamics of liquid water, i.e. how quickly water molecules change their binding state. Using innovative ultrafast vibrational spectroscopies, the researchers show why liquid water is so unique compared to other molecu ...
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Fukushima disaster was preventable
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
The worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown never should have happened, according to a new study.
In the peer-reviewed Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, researchers Costas Synolakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Utku Kano?lu of the Middle East Technical University in Turkey distilled thousands of pages of government and industry reports and ...
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The precision of solar photovoltaic power measurements doubled
Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
An analysis carried out by JRC scientists shows that the uncertainty in measurement of power generation from a photovoltaic (PV) cell can be more than halved, thus bringing an economic benefit to both manufacturers and investors.
With the annual world PV production exceeding 40 GW in 2014 and a market value of over euro 25bn, this is good news for customers, utilities, the production indu ...
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How social cues influence human-robot interaction
Santa Monica, CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
Robots are increasingly being considered for use in highly tense civilian encounters to minimize person-to-person contact and danger to peacekeeping personnel.
Trust, along with physical qualities and cultural considerations, is an essential factor in the effectiveness of these robotic peacekeepers. New research to be presented at the HFES 2015 Annual Meeting in Los Angeles in October exam ...
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A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 -
Light, sound, and now, heat - just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide an object from sound waves, a recently developed thermal cloak can render an object thermally invisible by actively redirecting incident heat.
The system, designed by by scientists at the Nanyang Technological ...
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