Aquion Energy to build microgrid battery system in Hawaii
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 08, 2015 -
Aquion Energy has announced that it has signed an agreement to supply a 1 megawatt-hour (MWh) battery system as part of an off-grid solar microgrid at Bakken Hale on the Island of Hawaii. Bakken Hale, a private residential estate, is located along the environmentally sensitive Kona Coast. The Aquion battery system will store energy generated from a large on-site solar installation and will enabl ...
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Top Five Factors Affecting Oil Prices In 2015
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 08, 2015 -
Top Five Factors Affecting Oil Prices In 2015 As we ring in the New Year, let's take stock of where we are at with the oil markets. 2014 proved to be a momentous one for the oil markets, having seen prices cut in half in just six months.
The big question is what oil prices will do in 2015. Oil prices are unsustainably low right now - many high-cost oil producers and oil-producing regions a ...
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New light shed on electron spin flips
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 08, 2015 -
Researchers from Berlin Joint EPR Lab at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and University of Washington derived a new set of equations that allows for calculating electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) transition probabilities with arbitrary alignment and polarization of the exciting electromagnetic radiation.
The validity of the equations could be demonstrated with a newly designed THz-EPR experime ...
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Cheap asphalt provides 'green' carbon capture
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 08, 2015 -
The best material to keep carbon dioxide from natural gas wells from fouling the atmosphere may be a derivative of asphalt, according to Rice University scientists.
The Rice laboratory of chemist James Tour followed up on last year's discovery of a "green" carbon capture material for wellhead sequestration with the news that an even better compound could be made cheaply in a few steps from ...
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Better dam planning strategies
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 08, 2015 -
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6,500 existing large dams on a highly precise map of the world's rivers, an international team led by McGill University researchers has created a new method to estimate the global impacts of dams on river f ...
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Disappearance of a Cosmic Spinning Top
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 09, 2015 -
Scientists measured the space-time warp in the gravity of a binary star and determined the mass of a neutron star - just before it disappeared.
"Our result is important because weighing stars while they freely float through space is exceedingly difficult," said Joeri van Leeuwen, an astrophysicist at The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy ASTRON, and University of Amsterdam, The Net ...
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Andromeda Hints at More Violent History than Milky Way
Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2015 -
A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in the disk of the Andromeda galaxy has found striking differences from our own Milky Way, suggesting a more violent history of mergers with smaller galaxies in Andromeda's recent past.
The structure and internal motions of the stellar disk of a spiral galaxy hold important keys to understanding the galaxy's formation history ...
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