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| April 24, 2014 |
 Fifty years of Mustang cool: is China along for the ride? Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2014 - From Steve McQueen to "The Fast and the Furious", the Mustang has long cruised through American pop culture, but Ford is hoping its snarling sports car will find a new generation of fans as it turns 50: in China. Launched in 1964 at an event on top of the Empire State Building, the Mustang quickly became a byword for cool among America's youth, who loved the slick, highly customisable "pony ... more |  |
 US urged to drop India WTO case on solar Washington (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Environmentalists Wednesday urged the United States to drop plans to haul India to the WTO to open its solar market, saying the action would hurt the fight against climate change. The World Trade Organization's dispute settlement body in Geneva has scheduled Friday to hear the US case for a panel against India, which has some of the world's most ambitious plans for expanding solar power. ... more |  |
 Boeing lifts profit outlook as jetliner demand booms Washington (AFP) April 23, 2014 - US aerospace and defense giant Boeing raised its 2014 profit outlook Wednesday despite a first-quarter profit slide, citing strong demand for its new jetliners. A sharp rise in pension costs from a change in retirement plans offset Boeing's robust commercial aircraft deliveries as airlines seek to renew aging fleets with more fuel-efficient jetliners. Boeing posted net profit in the firs ... more |  |
 Superconducting Qubit Array Points the Way to Quantum Computers Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - A fully functional quantum computer is one of the holy grails of physics. Unlike conventional computers, the quantum version uses qubits (quantum bits), which make direct use of the multiple states of quantum phenomena. When realized, a quantum computer will be millions of times more powerful at certain computations than today's supercomputers. A group of UC Santa Barbara physicists has mo ... more |  |
 Physicist demonstrates dictionary definition was dodgy Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - It is the defining moment that demonstrates a QUT physicist was correct in pointing out a 99-year-old mistake to one of the world's most authoritative dictionaries. QUT Senior Lecturer in Physics, Dr Stephen Hughes, sparked controversy over how a humble siphon worked when he noticed an incorrect definition in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary. In 2010, eagle-eyed Dr Hughes sp ... more |  |
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Progress made in developing nanoscale electronics Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - Scientists are facing a number of barriers as they try to develop circuits that are microscopic in size, including how to reliably control the current that flows through a circuit that is the width of a single molecule. Alexander Shestopalov, an assistant professor of chemical engineering at the University of Rochester, has done just that, thereby taking us one step closer to nanoscale cir ... more |  |
Piezotronics and piezo-phototronics leading to unprecedented active electronics and optoelectronics Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - New technologies for developing electronics and optoelectronics with tunable/adaptive functionalities and performance are critical to emerging applications in wearable technology, communication, pervasive computing, human-machine interfacing and biomedical diagnostics, in which the active and adaptive interactions between devices and stimuli from the ambient/host (e. g. human body) are essential ... more |  |
Like a hall of mirrors, nanostructures trap photons inside ultrathin solar cells Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - In the quest to make sun power more competitive, researchers are designing ultrathin solar cells that cut material costs. At the same time they're keeping these thin cells efficient by sculpting their surfaces with photovoltaic nanostructures that behave like a molecular hall of mirrors. "We want to make sure light spends more quality time inside a solar cell," said Mark Brongersma, a prof ... more |  |
NREL Unlocking Secrets of New Solar Material Golden CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than almost anything researchers have seen before-and it is generating optimism that a less expensive way of using sunlight to generate electricity may be in our planet's future. Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable ... more |  |
A new key to unlocking the mysteries of physics? Quantum turbulence New York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - The recent discovery of the Higgs boson has confirmed theories about the origin of mass and, with it, offered the potential to explain other scientific mysteries. But, scientists are continually studying other, less-understood forces that may also shed light on matters not yet uncovered. Among these is quantum turbulence, writes Katepalli Sreenivasan, an NYU University Professor, in a spec ... more |  |
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Economics = MC2 A portrait of the modern physics startup Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - For much of the 20th century, many of the technological innovations that drove U.S. economic growth emerged from "idea factories" housed within large companies - research units like Bell Labs or Xerox PARC that developed everything from the transistor to the computer mouse. In recent decades, however, many large high-tech companies have eliminated in-house research programs, turning inste ... more |  |
Atomic switcheroo explains origins of thin-film solar cell mystery Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Apr 24, 2014 - Treating cadmium-telluride (CdTe) solar cell materials with cadmium-chloride improves their efficiency, but researchers have not fully understood why. Now, an atomic-scale examination of the thin-film solar cells led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has answered this decades-long debate about the materials' photovoltaic efficiency increase after treatment. A rese ... more |  |
RWE to help build 37MW British solar farm Essen, Germany (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - German energy company RWE said Wednesday it would help build a 37-megawatt solar project to be constructed on an abandoned British airfield. RWE said, once constructed, the Kencot Hill solar facility will be the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom, generating enough energy to meet the annual demands of 10,000 households. The project should come online in late 2014. At full ... more |  |
 China manufacturing improves slightly; Beijing to open up private investment Beijing (AFP) April 23, 2014 - Chinese manufacturing activity improved slightly in April as domestic demand showed "mild improvement", HSBC said Wednesday, but it warned the world's second-largest economy was still showing signs of weakness. The banking giant's preliminary purchasing managers' index (PMI), which tracks manufacturing activity in China's factories and workshops, rose to 48.3 in April from a final reading of ... more |  |
 Kiev needs at least $3 billion for gas overhaul Kiev, Ukraine (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - More than $3 billion is needed to overhaul the Soviet-era natural gas transit network in Ukraine, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yuri Prodan said Wednesday. European consumers rely on Russian energy company Gazprom for about a quarter of their annual gas needs, though the bulk of those supplies runs through Ukraine's pipeline network. "In order for the gas transport system to operate ... more |  |
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Baku wants rights investment climate in Caspian region Moscow (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - Mutual trust among littoral states to the Caspian Sea is vital for a vibrant investment climate in the region's energy sector, the Azeri foreign minister said. Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with regional leaders in Moscow to discuss the importance of energy links in the Caspian region, which forms the foundation for some of the largest oil and natural gas pipeline network ... more |  |
BP streamlines Alaskan business Houston (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - British energy company BP said it was selling its stake in oil fields in the North Slope of Alaska in order to focus more on gas and the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Lamar McKay, chief executive officer for BP's upstream operations, said the sale to Hilcorp, an energy company based in Houston, gives BP the opportunity to focus on managing larger oil and gas opportunities in Alaska. "Th ... more |  |
Less flaring of gas to help allies, Hoeven says Williston, N.D. (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven said a reduction in the flaring of natural gas could potentially help U.S. allies with their energy needs. Hoeven met in Williston with Torstein Hole, a senior vice president of onshore operations at Norwegian energy company Statoil. The Republican senator said Statoil invested $8 billion in developing the Bakken oil play in his state and was working throug ... more |  |
Iran putting final touches on new energy contracts Tehran (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - The Iranian government said Wednesday it would revise how it governs oil and natural gas contracts, though sanctions must be lifted for full utilization. Mehdi Hosseini, the director of a committee tasked with contract revisions, said Iran will be switching from a buy-back system to one based on joint ventures in the oil and natural gas sector. Iran under the terms of the previou ... more |  |
OMV, Gazprom affirm European partnership Vienna (UPI) Apr 23, 2013 - Austrian energy company OMV views its Russian partners at Gazprom as vital to ensuring energy security in the European community, its top executive said. Gerhard Roiss, chief executive officer at OMV, met in Vienna with his Gazprom counterpart, Alexei Miller, to discuss geopolitical concerns in Europe. Both sides said the amount of gas delivered by Russia to European consumers wa ... more |  |
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