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Obama’s budget may jump start future electric cars

Written on 2 Mar, 2010 at 16:30 in Interest | viewed 650 times | 0 Comments
Obama's budget may jump start future electric cars

A single car can emit tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year. To curb the threat of these emissions, President Obama submitted a $28.4 billion fiscal year 2011 budget request for the Department of Energy to focus on... (Continue reading)

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Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells with Silicon Wire Arrays

Written on 1 Mar, 2010 at 18:30 in Research | viewed 385 times | 0 Comments
Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells with Silicon Wire Arrays

Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently... (Continue reading)

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Brookhaven Lab, Advanced Energy Systems Open Hi-Tech Production Facility

Written on 18 Jan, 2010 at 16:23 in News | viewed 255 times | 0 Comments
Brookhaven Lab, Advanced Energy Systems Open Hi-Tech Production Facility

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and Advanced Energy Systems, Inc. of Medford, N.Y. (AES) celebrated the opening of a new hi-tech facility at the AES site that will produce crucial components used in particle accelerators around... (Continue reading)

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Johnson Controls Ramping Up In Holland, MI

Written on 29 Dec, 2009 at 12:01 in News | viewed 1,149 times | 0 Comments
Johnson Controls Ramping Up In Holland, MI

Elizabeth Rolinski walks through the echoing manufacturing space at Johnson Controls Inc.’s Meadowbrook plant envisioning the dozen or so clean rooms and the production lines that will fill that space — a million details to pack into 127,000 empty... (Continue reading)

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s New Chemical and Materials Sciences Building Progressing Well

Written on 7 Dec, 2009 at 16:33 in News | viewed 1,082 times | 0 Comments
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's New Chemical and Materials Sciences Building Progressing Well

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has reached a construction milestone on a $95 million project to build the laboratory’s new Chemical and Materials Sciences Building. The facility’s last structural steel beam was raised and positioned into place,... (Continue reading)

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DuPont on Innovative Thin Film Solar Program

Written on 8 Jul, 2009 at 9:43 in Research | viewed 1,086 times | 0 Comments
DuPont on Innovative Thin Film Solar Program

DuPont today announced plans with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for a $9 million solar research program — part of the company’s overall effort in providing more mainstream solar photovoltaic (PV) products for commercial and residential applications. The DOE... (Continue reading)

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