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• Scientists Find a Gene That Limits the Conversion of Biomass to Energy

  

  Cotton fibres represent the purest natural form of cellulose, containing more than 90% of this polysaccharide.An international collaboration of plant... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 SCIENCE

• World’s Largest Wind Turbine Test Bench Started Operation in Denmark

  

  Vestas’ global testing center in Aarhus, Denmark. (Credit: Vestas)The biggest and most powerful wind turbine test bench in the industry has started operation... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Commercial P-Type Mono-Si Solar Cells Surpass 20% Conversion Efficiency

  

  JA Solar Holdings Co. (China), one of the world’s largest solar cell producers, announced this week that its p-type mono-crystalline silicon (“mono-Si”) solar... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Europe’s Largest 8.1 MW Solar Roof Built in Germany

  

  Wirsol's rooftop solar plant. (Credit: Wirsol)Wirsol Solar AG, an international solar energy provider, specialized in the planning, financing, construction and... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• China Becomes ‘Key Investor’ in Southeast Asia’s Hydropower

  

  The China Development Bank Tower in Shanghai.China has emerged as a key player in both financing and building the hydroelectric power infrastructure in Southeas... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• German Utility Takes 3,100 MW of Conventional Generation Offline

  

  RWE's Neurath lignit coal-fired power station at Neurath in Grevenbroich, Northrhine-Westphalia (Germany). (Credit: Stodtmeister... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Supercomputer Simulation Helps Cut Wind Turbine Noise, Increase Efficiency

  

  (Credit: Flickr @ Mark Thompson http://www.flickr.com/photos/discovering-our-countryside/)GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Scientists Significantly Increase Cadmium Telluride Solar Cells Efficiency

  

  Flexible thin film solar cells that can be produced by roll-to-roll manufacturing are a highly promising route to cheap solar electricity. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• ‘One-Pot’ Switchgrass Pretreatment and Saccharification Process Demonstrated

  

  EmeryStation East: home to the Joint BioEnergy Institute. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab / Roy Kaltschmidt)The advantages of the “one-stop” shop have... Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Smart Window Coating Can Regulate Heat and Light Coming Through

  

  Colorful windows and shutters. (Credit: Flickr @ Allen Brewer http://www.flickr.com/photos/navycrackerjack74/)Large glass windows provide better natural lightin... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• World’s Highest Capacity Underwater Power Link Established Between the UK and...

  

  HVDC Light station. (Credit: ABB)ABB, a multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating in robotics and mainly in the power and... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Polymer Semiconductors Increase Plastic Solar Cells’ Efficiency

  

  A research team led by Professor Tobin J. Marks of Northwestern University reports the design and synthesis of new polymer semiconductors and the realization... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Wireless Devices That Harvest Energy out of Thin Air Developed

  

  Using ambient backscatter, these devices can interact with users and communicate with each other without using batteries. They exchange information by reflectin... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• U.S. Nuclear Weapons Facility to Be Powered by the Largest Federal Wind Farm

  

  The Pantex Renewable Energy Project will feature Siemens hardware. (Credit: Siemens)The Energy Department today broke ground on the nation’s largest... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Low-Temperature Combustion Will Make Diesel Engines Cleaner, More Efficient

  

  Using new optical diagnostic techniques, Sandia National Laboratories combustion researcher Mark Musculus and his colleagues identified the sources of key... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• 5 Most Prominent Solar Car Models

  

  The University of Waterloo's Midnight Sun VII ready to depart the first checkpoint of the American Solar Challenge 2003 at Lincoln Land Community College in... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Solar PV Prices in the U.S. Continue to Fall Rapidly

  

  A view of the sunset reflecting in a solar panel. (Credit: Flickr @ Thomas Galvez http://www.flickr.com/photos/togawanderings/)The installed price of solar... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• $20 Spectral Sensor Will Help Forecast Available Solar Power

  

  Solar sensor boxes attached to the top of mobile solar power unit packs directly measure the amount of solar irradiation (sunlight) visible to the photovoltaic... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• New Report Analyzes Impact of Weather-Related Outages on Electrical Grid

  

  Transmission lines distribute power from Encina Power Plant to the regional electric utility grid supplying power to San Diego, Los Angeles and beyond, to... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY

• Las Vegas Resort Upgrades to Energy Efficient LED Lighting

  

  The Venetian | The Palazzo, in conjunction with the Sands Expo Center, is the first and only property on the Las Vegas Strip to receive U.S. Green Building... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 CURRENT, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIETY