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| July 03, 2014 |
 Smartenergy ramps up crystalline silicon solar panel production Zurich, Switzerland - Smartenergy Renewables AG successfully completed the conversion and upgrade of its fully-automated solar panel manufacturing facility in Luckenwalde, near Berlin, Germany. The factory is certified to DIN ISO 9001, 14001, and 50001 standards. The currently manufactured 295W Utility panels are fully IEC certified. To-date 1.9MW of the ultra reliable Utility panels have been installed in a so ... more |  |
 New NIST metamaterial gives light a one-way ticket Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - The light-warping structures known as metamaterials have a new trick in their ever-expanding repertoire. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a silver, glass and chromium nanostructure that can all but stop visible light cold in one direction while giving it a pass in the other.* The device could someday play a role in optical information processing ... more |  |
EU rubbishes waste in drive for Green growth Brussels (AFP) July 02, 2014 - The EU wants to ban the dumping of all recyclable rubbish in landfill sites as part of a social and economic revolution to re-use, repair and recycle. "We propose to make Europe a society without waste," said environment commissioner Janez Potocnik as he unveiled a landmark plan for Green growth he called "one of the most important" put together by the European Commission. Instead of usi ... more |  |
A step closer to bio-printing transplantable tissues and organs Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Researchers have made a giant leap towards the goal of 'bio-printing' transplantable tissues and organs for people affected by major diseases and trauma injuries, a new study reports. Scientists from the Universities of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT have bio-printed artificial vascular networks mimicking the body's circulatory system that are necessary for growing large complex tissues. ... more |  |
Solar Power Network Partners with Beisia to Develop 29 MW of Solar Power Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Solar Power Network Japan K.K. (SPN), a distributed power generation company based in Tokyo and headquartered in Canada, and Beisia Corporation (Beisia) has announced a partnership to develop a total of 29 MW of rooftop solar power atop 33 buildings owned by Beisia. SPN will design, build and operate the facilities. The completed systems will be grid connected with contracts under Japan's ... more |  |
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 Green planning needed to maintain city buildings Southampton, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Green spaces in towns and cities need extra consideration as they may be damaging buildings in the area, according to new research from the Universities of Southampton and Surrey. When organic chemicals from trees and vegetation mix with air pollutants the resulting corrosive gas can increase the erosion of building materials, including stone, concrete and steel. Southampton's Dr Abhishek ... more |  |
Tofu ingredient could revolutionise solar panel manufacture Liverpool, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic and expensive substance used to make solar cells, a University study published in the journal Nature has revealed. Cadmium chloride is currently a key ingredient in solar cell technology used in millions of solar panels around the world. This soluble compound is highly toxic and expensive to produce, requiring ... more |  |
Scientists discover how plastic solar panels work Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Scientists don't fully understand how 'plastic' solar panels work, which complicates the improvement of their cost efficiency, thereby blocking the wider use of the technology. However, researchers at the University of Montreal, the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Imperial College London and the University of Cyprus have determined how light beams excite the chemicals in solar panels, ... more |  |
It is not Easy to get solar more appy but EasySolar takes up the challenge Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2014 - Let's get appy, even in designing solar, seems to say EasySolar. EasySolar app - you might have heard the name of this product before. The omnipotent tool to design photovoltaic plants will be able to prepare sophisticated and beautiful projects, simulations of energy production from any photovoltaic installation in the world and prepare attractive offer to potential investors. After ... more |  |
 Feuding China, Philippines can still do business: envoy Manila (AFP) July 02, 2014 - China and the Philippines should work to strengthen weak economic ties, Beijing's envoy to Manila has said, despite an acrimonious maritime dispute. "It is imperative and essential that the two countries focus (on) things that can unite us, focus on things that can promote common prosperity for both countries," ambassador Zhao Jianhua told Filipino businessmen in a speech late Tuesday. M ... more |  |
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 Great progress on wind installations, Germany's RWE says Essen, Germany (UPI) Jul 1, 2013 - The last of the 160 wind turbines at an installation off the Welsh coast are in place and the facility should be online by winter, Germany's RWE said Tuesday. The German energy company said the 160 turbines at the Gwynt y Mor offshore wind farm are in place and cables are being set so the facility can enter into service later this year. The wind farm will have a peak operational ... more |  |
 Cambridge team breaks superconductor world record Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - A world record that has stood for more than a decade has been broken by a team led by University of Cambridge engineers, harnessing the equivalent of three tonnes of force inside a golf ball-sized sample of material that is normally as brittle as fine china. The Cambridge researchers managed to 'trap' a magnetic field with a strength of 17.6 Tesla - roughly 100 times stronger than the fiel ... more |  |
 A smashing new look at nanoribbons Houston TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Carbon nanotubes "unzipped" into graphene nanoribbons by a chemical process invented at Rice University are finding use in all kinds of projects, but Rice scientists have now found a chemical-free way to unzip them. The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan discovered that nanotubes that hit a target end first turn into mostly ragged clumps of atoms. But nanotubes that happen to ... more |  |
 Measuring quantum systems with "compressive sensing" Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - In quantum physics, momentum and position are an example of conjugate variables. This means they are connected by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, which says that both quantities cannot be simultaneously measured precisely. Recently, researchers have been developing novel techniques, such as "weak measurement," to measure both at the same time. Now University of Rochester physicists hav ... more |  |
Reigning in chaos in particle colliders yields big results Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - When beams with trillions of particles go zipping around at near light speed, there's bound to be some chaos. Limiting that chaos in particle colliders is crucial for the groundbreaking results such experiments are designed to deliver. In a special focus issue of the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, a physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) details an importan ... more |  |
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KYOCERA's Accumulated Solar Module Production Exceeds 5GW Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Kyocera has announced that its total accumulated production of solar modules since 1975 has exceeded the 5 gigawatt (GW) milestone. For comparison, 5GW of solar modules would be sufficient to supply individual 3.5-kilowatt PV systems for more than 1.4 million homes. In the current fiscal year (April 2014 to March 2015), the company is targeting annual production of 1.4GW, up from approxima ... more |  |
Study helps unlock mystery of high-temp superconductors Binghamton NY (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - A Binghamton University physicist and his colleagues say they have unlocked one key mystery surrounding high-temperature superconductivity. Their research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found a remarkable phenomenon in copper-oxide (cuprate) high-temperature superconductors. Michael Lawler, assistant professor of physics at Binghamton, is part ... more |  |
University scientists unraveling nature of Higgs boson Manhattan KS (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - New physics research involving Kansas State University faculty members has helped shed light on how our universe works. A recently published study in the journal Nature Physics reports scientists have found evidence that the Higgs boson - a fundamental particle proposed in 1964 and discovered in 2012 - is the long sought-after particle responsible for giving mass to elementary particles. " ... more |  |
Scientists Develop Force Sensor from Carbon Nanotubes Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - A group of researchers from Russia, Belarus and Spain, including MIPT professor Yury Lozovik, have developed a microscopic force sensor based on carbon nanotubes. The device is described in an article published in the journal Computational Materials Science and is also available as a preprint. The scientists proposed using two nanotubes, one of which is a long cylinder with double walls on ... more |  |
 Improved method for isotope enrichment would better secure supplies Austin TX (SPX) Jul 01, 2014 - Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have devised a new method for enriching a group of the world's most expensive chemical commodities, stable isotopes, which are vital to medical imaging and nuclear power, as reported this week in the journal Nature Physics. For many isotopes, the new method is cheaper than existing methods. For others, it is more environmentally friendly. A ... more |  |
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