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A new dimension for solar energy
Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.Link:Read more...Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 4:45am
The Torresol Energy Gemasolar thermasolar plant in Fuentes de Andalucia near Seville, southern Spain
Gemasolar is the first commercial-scale plant to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. The annual production of Gemasolar (110GWhe) is the equivalent of the energy generated in a conventional thermal plant burning 89,000 tons of lignite or the converted energy of 217,000 oil barrels. Therefore, the plant is expected to save more than 30,000 tonnes of CO2 emission a year.
Picture: GEMASOLAR / AFP/Getty
Submitted by millennialrising on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 10:16am
Radiation Worries Rise on Japan's Rice Crops
By Kay Aviles | September 26, 2011 7:44 PM EST
As Japan grows more of the rice it consumes, authorities are urged to be more stringent in keeping radioactive cesium out of the food supply.
Following news reports last week about radioactive iodine leaking outside the earthquake-crippled Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima, officials have begun testing harvested rice for possible contamination since Saturday.
Submitted by admin on Tue, 10/04/2011 - 2:56pmSolar projects get funding as deadline approaches
By Joe Stephens and Carol D. Leonnig, Published: September 30
The Energy Department defied Republican critics Friday by announcing that it had committed an additional $4.7 billion in loan guarantees toward four big-dollar clean technology projects just hours before the program’s funding expired.
Submitted by admin on Mon, 10/03/2011 - 3:24pm
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