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![]() Tarrytown NY (SPX) May 05, 2010 Hitachi America's Industrial and Infrastructure Systems Division has announced that it is focusing on Energy Storage for the Smart Grid to complement Wind and Solar Farms. Hitachi has completed eight projects since March 2000 and will complete another one this year. As the emergence of the Smart Grid gains momentum and the use of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar increasingly penetrate the market, Hitachi is well positioned to contribute to these infrastructure changes w ... read more |
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UQAM Researcher Solves Two 20-Year-Old Problems Of Solar Cells![]() Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 14, 2010 Thanks to two technologies developed by Professor Beno�t Marsan and his team at the Universite du Quebec � Montreal (UQAM) Chemistry Department, the scientific and commercial future of solar cells could be totally transformed. Professor Marsan has come up with solutions for two problems that, for the last twenty years, have been hampering the developmen ... more Did a global ocean save Earth from the cold ![]() Four billion years ago, our then stripling Sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water on the planet should been have frozen. But ancient rocks hold ample evidence that the early Earth was awash in liquid water - a planetary ocean of it. So something must have compensated for ... more Early Earth Absorbed More Sunlight ![]() Four billion years ago, our then stripling sun radiated only 70 to 75 percent as much energy as it does today. Other things on Earth being equal, with so little energy reaching the planet's surface, all water on the planet should been have frozen. But ancient rocks hold ample evidence that the early Earth was awash in liquid water - a planetary ocean of it. So something must have compensated for ... more |
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![]() Payerne, Switzerland (AFP) April 7, 2010 The Solar Impulse aircraft, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar energy, successfully completed its first test flight in western Switzerland on Wednesday. "There has never been in the past an aeroplane of that kind to fly. It was a huge question mark for us and it's an extraordinary relief," said Bertrand Piccard, pioneering round-the-world balloonist who co-founded the project. "Today for Solar Impulse it's an incredible milestone. It gives us confidence for the next flight a ... read more |
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