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| October 15, 2013 |
 Don't Be Fooled by Libya - This is a Failed State Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Gunmen have seized Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi Libya is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals. While the markets have been responding lately with unfounded optimism over Libya, anyone who has been privy to ... more |  |
 Kyocera Solar Helps Power Midway Airport Rental Car Facility Scottsdale AZ (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kyocera Solar has announced that 25 kilowatts (kW) of Kyocera photovoltaic modules now help power Chicago's Midway Airport's new environmentally friendly consolidated rental car facility. Installed by Green Power Solutions, the PV system is on the roof of the Quick-Turn Around (QTA) facility, where hundreds of rental cars are washed and refueled daily. As planes taxi and land, passengers e ... more |  |
UMD Robotic Bird Harvests Solar Energy College Park MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Small robotic birds are showing lots of promise for tasks such as monitoring the environment and conducting surveillance. But one current drawback they have is the amount of time they are able to stay aloft. Because of the birds' light weight and small size, the tiny batteries used to power them deplete in just a few minutes. University of Maryland Professors S.K. Gupta and Hugh Bruck and ... more |  |
Researchers find rust can power up artificial photosynthesis Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Chemists at Boston College have achieved a series of breakthroughs in their efforts to develop an economical means of harnessing artificial photosynthesis by narrowing the voltage gap between the two crucial processes of oxidation and reduction, according to their latest research, published this week in the journal Angewandte Chemie. The team reports it has come within two-tenths of the ph ... more |  |
World First for Stand-Alone, Solar-Powered Lighting Column Oss, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Kaal Masten is presenting the Spirit: the world's first solar-powered lighting column that does not use mains power and is available in a complete series (up to 18 metres). As a result, we now have a complete range of stand-alone lighting columns that can provide top quality lighting anywhere in the world. The Spirit is a modular lighting column that exclusively uses solar energy and LED t ... more |  |
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ET Solar Provides Solar Panels for Two Utility Projects in Chile San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - ET Solar Group has announced that it has provided 4.8MW of solar PV panels for two utility scaled projects in Chile. Located in Combarbala, the IV Region, the projects, namely PSF Pama and PSF Lomas Coloradas, are being constructed by Coener SpA. The owner of the projects is an investment Chilean company called Andacollo de Inversiones. Both projects are of utility scale and will be ... more |  |
Clues to foam formation could help find oil Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Blowing bubbles in the backyard is one thing and quite another when searching for oil. That distinction is at the root of new research by Rice University scientists who describe in greater detail than ever precisely how those bubbles form, evolve and act. A new study led by Rice chemical and biomolecular engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal and published in the journal Soft Matter describes two pre ... more |  |
Radioactive shale gas contaminants found at wastewater discharge site Durham NC (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Elevated levels of radioactivity, salts and metals have been found in river water and sediments at a site where treated water from oil and gas operations is discharged into a western Pennsylvania creek. "Radium levels were about 200 times greater in sediment samples collected where the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility discharges its treated wastewater into Blacklick Creek than in sedimen ... more |  |
 Mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and soda. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour has enhanced a polymer material to make it far more impermeable to pressurized gas and far lighter than the metal in tanks now used to contain the gas. The combination could be a boon for an ... more |  |
Flawed diamonds: Gems for new technology Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - A team of researchers led by University of Arizona assistant professor Vanessa Huxter has made the first detailed observation of how energy travels through diamonds that contain nitrogen-vacancy centers - defects in which two adjacent carbon atoms in the diamond's crystal structure are replaced by a single nitrogen atom and an empty gap. These "flaws" result in unexpected and attractive pr ... more |  |
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Carbon's new champion Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they'll find carbyne nanorods or nanoropes have a host of remarkable and useful properties, as described in a new paper by Rice University theoretical physicist Boris Yakobson and his group. The paper appears this week in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. ... more |  |
Direct 'writing' of artificial cell membranes on graphene Manchester UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Writing in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Manchester led by Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan, and Dr Michael Hirtz at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), have demonstrated that membranes can be directly 'written' on to a graphene surface using a technique known as Lipid Dip-Pen Nanolithography (L-DPN). The human body contains 100 trillion cells, each of which is ... more |  |
'White graphene' halts rust in high temps Houston TX (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Atomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting what's underneath from oxidizing even at very high temperatures, Rice University researchers have discovered. One or several layers of the material sometimes called "white graphene" keep materials from oxidizing - or rusting - up to 1,100 degrees Celsius (2,012 degrees Fahrenheit), and can be made ... more |  |
 US lawmakers split as debt deadline looms Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The United States was still facing a potentially devastating sovereign debt default and making markets nervous after senators failed to agree on terms to reopen the federal government and raise the country's borrowing limit. Republicans and President Barack Obama's Democrats - at war over the country's finances for more than two weeks - tried to shed a positive light Sunday on a weekend of ... more |  |
 Global action needed for energy 'trilemma' Daegu, South Korea (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - The World Energy Council called for global action on what it refers to as the energy "trilemma" - affordability, accessibility and environmentally sustainable energy for all. The triennial World Energy Congress, based in London, opened Monday in Daegu, South Korea, under the theme "Securing Tomorrow's Energy Today," with more than 6,000 delegates from 113 countries and more than 50 gov ... more |  |
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 Russia's Nord Gold wins license for Siberian gold field Ulan-Ude, Russia (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - A mining company owned by Russian steel industry oligarch Alexei Mordashov has won a long-sought license for gold exploration in eastern Siberia. Mordashov's Nord Gold N.V. announced Friday its 85-percent-owned subsidiary, JSC Buryatzoloto, was the winner of an auction for a 25-year exploration license in the Zhanokskaya gold area in the Republic of Buryatia, along Lake Baikul in the so ... more |  |
 Japan nuclear export parts not safety checked: report Tokyo (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Japan neglected carrying out safety checks on at least 40 percent of nuclear reactor parts exported over a decade, a report said Monday, in the latest controversy to strike its troubled nuclear industry. Nuclear reactor parts - including pressure vessels which contain the fuel in power plants - worth about 51.1 billion yen ($520 million) were shipped to 17 countries, as well as Taiwan, wit ... more |  |
Global energy meet highlights challenge of growing demand Daegu, South Korea (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The challenge of providing sustainable energy to a growing global population at a minimal environmental impact dominated debate at the World Energy Congress on Monday. "Today, less than one-third of the world's seven billion people consume more than two-thirds of its primary energy supplies," Khalid al-Falih, the president of the world's largest oil exporter, Saudi Aramco, said in a keynote ... more |  |
IAEA to advise Japan on Fukushima clean-up Tokyo (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency met Japanese officials Monday as part of a mission to assess clean-up efforts at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant. The UN atomic agency began the nine-day mission at the request of the Japanese government, as it did in 2011 following a powerful earthquake and tsunami that sparked reactor meltdowns at Fukushima. The plant's op ... more |  |
China firm denies ex-premier's daughter brokered Zurich deal Shanghai (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - A Chinese tycoon has denied allegations the daughter of a former leader brokered an illegal deal for Swiss giant Zurich Insurance to buy into one of his companies, state media reported Monday. Britain's Telegraph newspaper said last week that Li Xiaolin, daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng, helped arrange a multi-million-dollar deal in 1995 for Zurich to buy into a Chinese insurer - ... more |  |
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