Berkeley, CA – Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114, ten years after a group in Russia, at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, first claimed to have made it. The search for 114 has long been [...]
With the rapid and huge demand for new energy in China, TD.Fortune Consulting will launch the new solar energy trade mission to invite overseas solar companies to join in the potential market, to develop this industry opportunity together. November 2nd to 6th , 2009
According to TDFortune:
2008 global production of thin-film solar cells of 892MW, an [...]
September 23, 2009— GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE (NYSE: GE), and Plutonic Power Corporation (TSX: PCC) have moved a step closer to purchasing the 144-megawatt Dokie Ridge Wind Project, the largest wind farm under construction in British Columbia, from EarthFirst Canada Inc. GE and Plutonic have completed their due diligence, waived initial [...]
This New Jersey company has delivered its first shipment on an order for 200,000 solar PV systems. Metallic blue solar photovoltaic modules embedded with sophisticated power management and communications systems began rolling out of Petra Solar’s headquarters and manufacturing plant in South Plainfield, NJ this month in the largest solar electric project under construction in the [...]
WASHINGTON– This morning, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Energy Secretary Steven Chu hosted a group of clean energy developers and manufacturers at the White House to discuss how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) is creating jobs and helping expand the development of clean, renewable domestic energy. At the meeting, Secretaries Geithner and [...]
Vienna, Austria – U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and South African Minister of Energy Dipuo Peters signed a bilateral Agreement on Cooperation in Research and Development of Nuclear Energy on September 14 in Vienna. This Agreement will facilitate cooperation in the areas of advanced nuclear energy systems and reactor technology. The two countries will [...]
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Researchers from the Eindhoven University of Technology have made the first high-resolution 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell. This gives them important new insights in the nanoscale structure of a polymer solar cell and the effect on its performance. This gives them important new insights into the [...]
What if we could develop a process whereby you store your CO2 in a beds of coal layer and get methane in return. The Netherland’s Delft University PhD-student Patrick van Hemert built an instrument to study this process.
Siemens
Siemens Energy has received an order from Russia for the supply of six industrial gas turbine generators.
Purchaser is OOO RN-Tuapsinskiy NPZ, a subsidiary of the major Russian oil company OAO Rosneft. The gas turbine-generators will be operated in the Tuapse refinery located on the Black Sea. The order is valued at approximately EUR90 million.
The [...]