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| December 26, 2013 |
 Renewables Provides All New US Electrical Generating Capacity In November Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - According to the latest "Energy Infrastructure Update" report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, solar, biomass, wind, geothermal, and hydropower "units" provided 394 MW - or 100% - of all new electrical generation placed in-service in November 2013. There was no new capacity during the month from natural gas, coal, oil, or nuclear power. Renewable e ... more |  |
 Throwing out the textbook: Salt surprises chemists Washington DC (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - Table salt, sodium chloride, is one of the first chemical compounds that schoolchildren learn. New research from a team including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov shows that under certain high-pressure conditions, plain old salt can take on some surprising forms that violate standard chemistry predictions and may hold the key to answering questions about planet formation. The team, which als ... more |  |
Penn Researchers Grow Liquid Crystal 'Flowers' That Can Be Used as Lenses Philadelphia, PA (SPX) Dec 23, 2013 - A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crystals as a medium for assembling structures. In their earlier studies, the team produced patterns of "defects," useful disruptions in the repeating patterns found in liquid crystals, in nanoscale grids and rings. The new study adds a ... more |  |
Resistance makes waves Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Even physics can give pointers for energy saving. An international team working together with the Centre for Quantum Materials, run by the Max Planck Society in conjunction with the University of British Columbia (Canada), is now in a position to provide materials scientists with tips for the development of high-temperature superconductors, in a bid to make them earn their name. The term i ... more |  |
 Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement Reached Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - The U.S. Energy Department, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), the Appliance Standards Awareness Project (ASAP), the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) announced non-regulatory energy efficiency standards for pay-TV set-top boxes that will result in signif ... more |  |
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Solitons in a crystal Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - Soliton water waves can travel several kilometers without any significant change in their shape or amplitude, as opposed to normal waves, which widen as they travel, and eventually disappear. Discovered over 150 years ago in water canals, solitons represent a surprising phenomenon of wave propagation and have been observed in natural phenomena including moving sand dunes and space plasmas. ... more |  |
DEK Solar Reaffirms PV Market Commitment London, UK (SPX) Dec 24, 2013 - On the heels of the recent announcement regarding ASM Pacific Technology's (ASMPT) intention to acquire the DEK and DEK Solar businesses, both companies are already working to expand opportunities and view the photovoltaic (PV) market as an area of unlimited potential. While there are obvious synergies between ASMPT's Assembly Systems (ASM AS) business and DEK's leading position in the SMT ... more |  |
'Thousands' killed as South Sudan slides toward civil war Juba (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Thousands of South Sudanese have been killed in more than a week of violence, with reports of bodies piled in mass graves, the UN said as it moved to nearly double its peacekeepers there. Large areas of South Sudan remain out of the government's control amid fears the young nation was sliding toward civil war, though Juba said its forces had recaptured the strategically important town of Bor ... more |  |
Arab monarchies eye stronger ties with China Riyadh (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - The six energy-rich Arab monarchies of the Gulf are seeking to strengthen ties with China, Gulf Cooperation Council chief Abdullatif al-Zayani said Wednesday after talks with the Chinese foreign minister. Zayani held talks in Saudi Arabia with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and expressed "GCC interest in bolstering friendship and cooperation ties with China," a GCC statement said. Wang ... more |  |
Russia drops cases against Greenpeace activists Moscow (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Russia on Wednesday dropped all but one of the cases against 30 crew members of a Greenpeace protest ship following a Kremlin-backed amnesty. The move marks the end of a three-month criminal probe against the 26 foreign and four Russian activists and comes less than two months before Moscow hosts the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi. In what was widely seen as another in a series of attempt ... more |  |
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 Russia files first WTO complaint against EU Moscow (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Russia has accused the European Union of violating global free trade measures in its first complaint before the World Trade Organisation, the economy ministry said Tuesday. The procedure has to do with "a violation by the EU of anti-dumping provisions of the WTO agreement," said spokeswoman Yulia Chkanikova. The complaint is the first Russia has filed since it joined the global trade bod ... more |  |
Finland looks to old foe Russia for new investment Helsinki (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - For generations, Finland has lived fearfully in the shadow of its giant Russian neighbour, but today Russia could be the answer to the Finnish economy's woes. As they creep deeper into recession, the Finns may turn east for investment, while trying to forget a century under the Tsar followed by two hot wars and a cold one against the Soviets. "There might be some prejudices," said Heli S ... more |  |
Rusal starts legal case against London Metal Exchange London (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Rusal, the world's largest aluminium producer, has triggered a judicial review of plans by the London Metal Exchange to reform how it stockpiles commodities, the LME's owner said on Tuesday. Russian company Rusal filed a claim in the English High Court on Monday, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange said in a statement. The Hong Kong bourse last year bought the LME, which is the world's biggest meta ... more |  |
 Fukushima operator readies new restructuring plan Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Tokyo Electric Power Wednesday submitted a fresh restructuring plan to a Japanese government-backed fund that envisages the creation of a special unit to dismantle the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. TEPCO president Naomi Hirose pledged thorough implementation of the plan, once approved by the government as expected next month. The utility's board Tuesday approved a draft plan that wou ... more |  |
 Japan OKs record budget, sees deflation threat recede Tokyo (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Japan approved its biggest ever budget Tuesday, as an improving economy and a sales tax hike made room for more defence spending and the first step towards achieving a balanced budget. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet rubber-stamped a plan that will see the government spend 95.88 trillion yen ($922 billion) in the year from April 2014, up from 92.61 trillion yen the previous year. The ... more |  |
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 Japanese automakers' sales in China surge in November Tokyo (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - Leading Japanese automakers saw their best November sales ever last month, in stark contrast to a year ago when shipments plunged amid a deep territorial row between Tokyo and Beijing. Industry leader Toyota said its sales in China for the month reached 90,000 units, up 40.7 percent from a year ago, driven by popularity of its flagship models, including Camry, Corolla and Rav4. Rival Nis ... more |  |
 New approach to vertex connectivity could maximize networks' bandwidth Boston MA (SPX) Dec 26, 2013 - Computer scientists are constantly searching for ways to squeeze ever more bandwidth from communications networks. Now a new approach to understanding a basic concept in graph theory, known as "vertex connectivity," could ultimately lead to communications protocols - the rules that govern how digital messages are exchanged - that coax as much bandwidth as possible from networks. Grap ... more |  |
With selfies, the world turns the camera on itself Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - Stuck on a ledge halfway up a 3,000-foot (1,000-meter) cliff in Oman, his climbing rope sliced in two by sharp rocks, Jimmy Chin did what anyone else would have done in his predicament. He took a selfie. "I had some time to figure out what I was going to do," said Chin, a National Geographic photographer whose images of extreme climbing by the Straits of Hormuz appear in the magazine's J ... more |  |
US judge rejects BP bid for extra proof in oil spill claims New York (AFP) Dec 25, 2013 - A US federal judge has rejected a bid from BP to require companies prove their losses are directly linked to the 2010 massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill before getting a payout. The British energy giant last year reached a $7.8 billion settlement with thousands of people and businesses hit by the worst environmental disaster in US history. But it has been challenging the way Patrick Juneau ... more |  |
US cites 'many concerns' over China business practices Washington (AFP) Dec 24, 2013 - The United States said Tuesday it harbored "many concerns" over China's business practices, despite significant progress since the country's 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) issued its findings in its annual report to Congress on China's compliance with WTO regulations. "While progress was made on some meaningful issues ... man ... more |  |
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