JinkoSolar Opens Solar Module Factory in Cape Town, South Africa
Shanghai, China (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
JinkoSolar Holding has announced that it has opened a solar module factory in Cape Town, South Africa.
Located in 2 Evans Avenue, Epping Industrial 1, Cape Town, the factory covers an area of 5,000m2.and has annual production capacity of 120MW. JinkoSolar invested a total of approximately USD7.5 million in the factory which is expected to create 250 jobs.
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Disney develops method to capture stylized hair for 3-D-printed figurines
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
Perhaps no aspect of 3D printing has captured the popular imagination more than personalized figurines with the facial features of real people. Now, researchers at Disney Research Zurich and the University of Zaragoza have developed a method that can incorporate an individual's hairstyle as well.
The researchers will present their new method at ACM SIGGRAPH 2014, the International Conferen ...
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NOKERO unveils the Prima N202 at American Renewable Energy Day
New York NY (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
Nokero International will be unveiling its 9th solar powered bulb, Prima N202, at Aspen's American Renewable Energy Day Conference. Nokero is continuing to provide a better quality of life and economic opportunities for those without electricity with the launch of the Prima N202.
Since its inception, Nokero has distributed their solar-based products to more than 120 countries worldwide, wh ...
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Learning from origami to design new materials
Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
A challenge increasingly important to physicists and materials scientists in recent years has been how to design controllable new materials that exhibit desired physical properties rather than relying on those properties to emerge naturally, says University of Massachusetts Amherst physicist Christian Santangelo.
Now he and physicist Arthur Evans and polymer scientist Ryan Hayward at UMass ...
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Photo editing algorithm changes weather, seasons automatically
Providence RI (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
We may not be able control the weather outside, but thanks to a new algorithm being developed by Brown University computer scientists, we can control it in photographs.
The new program enables users to change a suite of "transient attributes" of outdoor photos - the weather, time of day, season, and other features - with simple, natural language commands. To make a sunny photo rainy, for e ...
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Pairing old technologies with new for next-generation electronic devices
London, UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to develop a new generation of electronic devices.
One promising approach to developing new technologies is to exploit the electron's tiny magnetic moment, or 'spin'.
Electrons have two properties - cha ...
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Carbon dioxide 'sponge' could ease transition to cleaner energy
San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 -
A sponge-like plastic that sops up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) might ease our transition away from polluting fossil fuels and toward new energy sources, such as hydrogen. The material - a relative of the plastics used in food containers - could play a role in President Obama's plan to cut CO2 emissions 30 percent by 2030, and could also be integrated into power plant smokestacks in t ...
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