Tokyo - Mar 04, 2004 - Agreement on a multi-million euro contract for the supply of solar array panels was reached between Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and Alcatel Space on February 17th, 2004.
College Station - Mar 04, 2004 - Two research economists say electrical power plants and other manufacturing agencies could someday seek the aid of farmers, offering contracts to help industrial firms reduce carbon emissions. For farmers, such agreements could create an additional source of income and make carbon a traded commodity.
New York - Mar 04, 2004 - L-3 Communications announced today that its Westwood Corporation business unit has received orders from the U.S. Army CECOM Acquisition Center totaling $12 million for Tactical Quiet Generators. These orders are an add-on to an existing Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract raising the total amount of orders placed to date to $39.6 million.
West Lafayette - Mar 04, 2004 - Researchers are reporting new evidence supporting their earlier discovery of an inexpensive tabletop device that uses sound waves to produce nuclear fusion reactions.
University Park - Feb 25, 2004 - Penn State environmental engineers have shown, for the first time, that a microbial fuel cell (MFC) can generate electricity while simultaneously cleaning the wastewater that you flush down the drain or toilet.
Clausthal - Feb 25, 2004 - The black absorbers of parabolic-trough solar collectors are surrounded by borosilicate glass tubes in the focal line of the reflector. These tubes reflect a total of about eight per cent of the sunlight.
London - Feb 18, 2004 - The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is allocating its largest ever grant of ¿48M. The funding, for fusion research, will run over 4 years. EPSRC took over responsibility for the UK fusion programme in April 2003 with dedicated funding allocated via the Office of Science and Technology.
Brunswick - Feb 18, 2004 - Federal government plans for more than 100 radioactive and toxic waste sites are fantasy and wishful thinking, says world-renowned disaster expert Lee Clarke, associate professor of sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Seattle - Feb 18, 2004 - Recent studies show that we have a weapons-grade Catch-22 when it comes to managing the nation's existing problems of nuclear contamination, according to environmental studies expert William R. Freudenburg.
Seattle - Feb 16, 2004 - Following the National Academy of Sciences criticism of the Bush administration's plans for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles last week, taxpayers are left wondering how realistic is the vision for a hydrogen economy, what kinds of approaches are scientists and engineers taking and just what are the technical hurdles involved.
Minneapolis - Feb 16, 2004 - The first reactor capable of producing hydrogen from a renewable fuel source - ethanol - efficiently enough to hold economic potential has been invented by University of Minnesota engineers. When coupled with a hydrogen fuel cell, the unit - small enough to hold in your hand - could generate one kilowatt of power, almost enough to supply an average home, the researchers said.
London - Feb 11, 2004 - The possibility of using the Earth's abundant supply of water as a cheap source of hydrogen is a step closer thanks to researchers from Imperial College London. By mimicking the method plants use to split water, researchers say that a highly energy efficient way to form cheap supplies of hydrogen fuel may be possible in the future.
Genova - Jan 21, 2004 - The first module of CMS superconducting magnet is leaving towards Cern It is a huge solenoid, which will hold the world record of stored energy The first module of the five constituting the CMS superconducting magnet is sailing on January 21st of from Genova port to Cern. CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) is one of the experiments that will take place at the accelerator Lhc (Large Hadron Collider), under construction at Cern in Geneva.
Chicago - Jan 15, 2004 - University of Chicago scientists have proposed a new method for storing hydrogen fuel in this week's online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Madison - Dec 11, 2003 - As utility companies search for ways to avoid blackouts, like the one that shut down the northeastern corner of the United States last summer, one idea comes from UW-Madison.
Washington - Dec 11, 2003 - For the first time, an international research program involving the Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey has proven that it is technically feasible to produce gas from gas hydrates. Gas hydrates are a naturally occurring ice-like combination of natural gas and water that have the potential to be a significant new source of energy from the world's oceans and polar regions.
