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In spite of the fact that hovercraft are usually used for navigating swamps and shallow waters, a few modifications are, apparently, enough to turn them into potent scientific tools. Researchers Yngve Kristofferson and John Hall are planning to use a modified Griffon Hovercraft 2000TD to analyze a patch of Arctic sea... |
13 October 2009
06:38 GMT |
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Out of all the renewable sources of energy that could be tapped to create electricity, solar radiation is now, by far, the most favored. Although some may argue that geothermal energy is truly endless, the fact is that billions of dollars are currently being poured into research related to creating more efficient and... |
18 August 2009
02:42 GMT |
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Over the past few years, large amounts of efforts and considerable sums of money were poured by governments into producing new generations and types of solar cells. While this may look like a good thing, industry officials say that the lack of funding for completely developing and scaling up the existing technologies... |
3 August 2009
03:05 GMT |
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A new design for growing optical semiconductors, created by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), will make efficient, low-coast, and flexible solar cells and panels a reality in the future. In the new proce... |
10 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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As an essential part of the United States' future energy security strategy, solar cells are now the object of a large-scale investigation, conducted by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) facility. The goal of the new study is to discover special coatings... |
26 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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A team of experts from the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has recently announced the development of a new type of material, an electronic glue that is able to bind nanocrystals together, and that also helps them pass electrical charge from one to the other. The find could have importa... |
12 June 2009
05:56 GMT |
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The process of photosynthesis is perhaps the most important one on Earth, as it is the source of our oxygen, and also a huge storage facility for atmospheric carbon dioxide, of which we pump copious amounts in the atmosphere. But one of the bases for this process is the vegetation's ability to capture and conver... |
5 May 2009
06:20 GMT |
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The growing effects of climate change and global warming have prompted a lot of companies and other entrepreneurs to start investing in renewable energy, such as solar power and wind farms. However, it would seem that a new problem is now emerging, namely the fact that large amounts of solar panels, scheduled to be c... |
30 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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At 3:13:17 pm EDT (1913:17 GMT) on Saturday, the Discovery STS-119 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) landed successfully at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its mission was deemed an astounding success, as the joint crew of NASA's veteran shuttle and that of the ISS managed to install the last... |
30 March 2009
03:34 GMT |
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After 8 days of joint missions with the three-member crew of the ISS, the Discovery space shuttle has undocked from the International Space Station yesterday, on its way towards its Saturday landing at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The most crucial phase of the STS-119 mission has thus been completed, and al... |
26 March 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Just as the space shuttle pulled apart from the ISS, its cameras recorded the first pictures of the completed orbital facility, with all its solar panels fully deployed. Discovery was brought about in a “victory lap” around the station, and so the first images became available. According to Mission Contro... |
26 March 2009
03:46 GMT |
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President Barack Obama has made a very long distance-call on Tuesday, when he made contact with the joint 10-member crew of astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station and the Discovery space shuttle. The President, who has called the crew from his Oval Office, has said, first of all, that everyone at... |
25 March 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the STS-119 Discovery mission will have the rest of Tuesday off from chores, in order to be able to spend some time together, before the shuttle leaves tomorrow. With yesterday's third and final spacewalk complete to a partial success, there are no impo... |
24 March 2009
09:43 GMT |
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More than 10 years ago, sixteen nations embarked on one of the most ambitious projects in the world, the construction of an orbital facility meant to provide the contributing countries with the opportunity to conduct zero-gravity scientific experiments, as well as to make other scientific observations from outside th... |
20 March 2009
11:38 GMT |
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On Thursday, two Discovery astronauts spent little over six hours installing the new S6 truss rod segment to the International Space Station (ISS)' starboard side. The operations began at 1:16 pm EDT (1716 GMT), and were carried out by mission specialists Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold II. With the successful... |
20 March 2009
03:18 GMT |
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Despite only having arrived aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, the crew of the Discovery shuttle has already begun working with the ISS one at deploying the last segment of the orbital facility's main truss, which is also outfitted with the last array of US solar panels. The operations that start... |
19 March 2009
03:23 GMT |
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The Discovery space shuttle finally completed a huge part of the STS-119 mission on Tuesday evening, when it finally docked on the International Space Station. The procedure ended at 5:19 pm EDT (2119 GMT) and the three astronauts aboard the orbital facility were very pleased to eventually be able to see other people... |
18 March 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The seven crew members aboard the STS-119 Discovery mission, which successfully launched yesterday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will inspect the heat shield on their shuttle for any signs of damage on Monday. They are scheduled to dock on the International Space Station tomorrow, and they have to... |
16 March 2009
11:15 GMT |
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Soon after Samsung announced the development of a solar-powered mobile phone that would be showcased at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week, we learned that another Korean phone maker, LG Electronics, also came forward with a similar device, meant to be demoed at the show as well. Although LG h... |
13 February 2009
06:54 GMT |
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American Building Technologies, a subsidiary of Mulk Holdings, a multi-national group based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has managed to devise a new method of producing solar energy at a 50 percent lower cost, while at the same time increasing the efficiency of the entire process. The new production system is s... |
19 January 2009
09:56 GMT |
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Rev. Paolo Padrini, a “technology” priest, created an iTunes version of the Breviary, which he then made available for download to the Italian people, for a free trial. The new way of spreading the word of the Lord was ratified by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, which says that the use o... |
23 December 2008
02:26 GMT |
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The Nervi Hall in the city-state of Vatican has been outfitted with some 2,400 photovoltaic cells, which will supply the 10,000-people capacity dome and some of its surrounding buildings with approximately 300,000 kilowatts-hour (KWH) of electricity throughout the year, thus reducing the state's dependency on It... |
26 November 2008
05:36 GMT |
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As our planet's natural resources are slowly nearing complete depletion, mankind is constantly on the look-out for new, alternative power sources. And one of the most promising such sources is solar power, which might become extremely important on the future as it can provide the required energy for one's d... |
11 July 2007
06:41 GMT |
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Telefonica's office complex situated in Madrid has developed a building concept that is meant to save a great amount of energy. Their solution comes in the shape of solar panels mounted on the entire surface of the building.The need for saving energy and reducing pollution has pushed Telefonica into setting an e... |
5 June 2007
02:18 GMT |
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Here's something better than the Chargepod I presented last week. The Freeloader from Solar Technology is able to power almost any hand held device anywhere, without having to plug it in a wall socket.That's not entirely true. You still need the sun to charge its internal battery, but if you have that, you&... |
22 May 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Barbecuing is a very serious business for both normal, burping, beer-bellied people and environmentalists who care about the atmosphere and wouldn't want to destroy it with some classic matches or lighters. And although the fire itself is much more damaging to air than the igniter itself, there's a device o... |
11 May 2007
08:22 GMT |
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If you're a sucker for solar powered items, then Soltronix solar powered AM/FM headphone may be the thing you were looking for: the Soltronix Headphone Radio. It comes with solar panels that are "sewed" on top of the headphones giving you th Dumbo-look that could scare all those irritating morining joggers eage... |
7 May 2007
16:56 GMT |
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