PV Energy to provide Antigua and Barbuda with clean solar power
St John's Antigua (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
The Government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) and PV Energy Limited are taking a major step towards environmental sustainability to create affordable and sustainable clean energy solutions across the islands of Antigua and Barbuda.
In collaboration with PV Energy, the GOAB have agreed to implement a number of photovoltaic installations with the total capacity of 10 MWp. PV Energy Ltd and th ...
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Michigan stance highlights Clean Power Plan fray
Lansing, Mich. (UPI) Sep 2, 2015 -
Michigan's governor received praise from the renewable energy industry for backing a federal clean power plan, but interstate political issues remain.
The state government said it was embarking on its own initiative to ensure it's in compliance with a federal Clean Power Plan unveiled Aug. 3. Under the program, states need to either develop their own low-carbon agenda or follow federal ...
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Waste coffee used as fuel storage
London, UK (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
Scientists have developed a simple process to treat waste coffee grounds to allow them to store methane. The simple soak and heating process develops a carbon capture material with the additional environmental benefits of recycling a waste product.
The results are published today, 03 September 2015, in the journal Nanotechnology.
Methane capture and storage provides a double environm ...
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Study shows how fracking documentary influenced public perception and political change
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2015 -
Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change. But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.
By measuring an uptick in online searches as well as ...
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Using ultrathin sheets to discover new class of wrapped shapes
Amherst MA (SPX) Sep 02, 2015 -
Materials scientists seeking to encapsulate droplets of one fluid within another often use molecules like soap or micro- or nano-particles to do it. One distinct way of wrapping a droplet is to use a thin sheet that calls on capillary action to naturally wrap a droplet in a blanket of film, but because it takes some force to bend a sheet around a drop, there were thought to be limits on what can ...
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Could tiny jellyfish propulsion drive design of new underwater craft
Eugene OR (SPX) Sep 02, 2015 -
The University of Oregon's Kelly Sutherland has seen the future of under-sea exploration by studying the swimming prowess of tiny jellyfish gathered from Puget Sound off Washington's San Juan Island.
In a paper with four colleagues in the journal Nature Communications, Sutherland details how a tiny type of jellyfish - colonial siphonophores - swim rapidly by coordinating multiple water-sho ...
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Made from solar concentrate
Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2015 -
By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with spectrally matched photonic mirrors, a team of scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of Illinois created solar cells that collect blue photons at 30 times the concentration of conventional solar cells, the highest luminescent concentration factor ever recorded. This breakthrough paves the ...
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