In the first decades of the 20th century, physicists hotly debated how to make sense of the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as the tendency of subatomic particles to behave like both particles and waves. One early theory, called pilot-wave theory, proposed that moving particles are borne along on some type of quantum wave, like driftwood on the tide. But this theory ultimately gave way to the so-called Copenhagen interpretation, which gets rid of the carrier wave, but with it the in...
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Solarlite GmbH, located in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany, is the parabolic trough collector developer and solar field constructer of the first commercial solar thermal power plant with Direct Steam Generation in the world. Solarlite has tested the DSG concept successfully in three pilot projects in Thailand and Germany. Solarlite's adaptation of DSG concept is based on the following advantages:rnrn- DSG concept is environment friendly and it avoids usage of flammable & environmental hazard...
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*** Thermal Management System Developed by Inventors ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 15 -- Four inventors have invented a thermal management system for cooling a heat generating component of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus. The U.S. Patent was issued on Oct. 12 (No. 7,812,604). The co-inventors are Tunc Icoz, Schenectady, N.Y., Mehmet Arik, Niskayuna, N.Y., Yogen Vishwas Utturkar, Latham, N.Y., and Bruce Courtney Campbell Amm, Clifton Park, N.Y.An abstract of the invention, published by the U.S. Pa...
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West Virginia, United States -- When you think of geothermal, West Virginia probably doesn't come to mind. But a team of researchers at Southern Methodist University, funded by Google.org, has found that geothermal resources in the state are capable of supporting large-scale power plants for baseload electricity production. The SMU Geothermal Laboratory recently said it has increased its estimate of West Virginia’s geothermal generation potential to 18,890 megawatts (assuming a conservative 2%...
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Just when you thought we were on the verge of an electric car revolution, it turns out that the internal combustion engine isn’t leaving anytime soon. The winner of this year’s Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize has been announced, and underneath that aerodynamic, space-aged body is the familiar gas-guzzling engine that your grandfather would recognize. That is, if he could find where they put it. Weighing in at 376 kg and looking more like a spaceship than a commuter vehicle, the Edis...
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Another big grant recipient from the six seriously geeky developments that received USDOE funding as part of the ARPA-E program is a program to develop thermal energy storage with supercritical fluids from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). We've noted that the State of California has started approving solar-thermal power plants, and Google is even involved in research for solar-thermal power; it is a technology that has languished for some years, but is now starting to gain wider ...
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In the 1990s a graduate student named Lin Chao at Princeton University decided to bubble carbon dioxide into an electrochemical cell. Using cathodes made from the element palladium and a catalyst known as pyridinium—a garden variety organic chemical that is a by-product of oil refining—he discovered that applying an electric current would assemble methanol from the CO2. He published his findings in 1994—and no one cared. But by 2003, Chao's successor in the Princeton lab of chemist Andrew ...
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Technology has come a long way since then, and the work of Western Engineering professor Kamran Siddiqui in the area of solar energy research is taking the use of this free energy resource to new levels. “You don’t need to be a scientist to know that sunlight heats up objects, but how to use this heat efficiently is where the technical knowledge is needed and the science comes in,” Siddiqui says. With a background in heat transfer and fluid mechanics, Siddiqui is working on a number of sol...
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New Delhi, Delhi, September 23, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- Development of smart and intelligent New Materials shall dominate the advancement of engineering of tomorrow. Major research work for development of tailor-made materials can play a crucial role in solving several present day problems being faced by mankind including waste disposal. Delhi Technological University (DTU), formerly Delhi College of Engineering, has a special research focus on developing such materials and explore their areas o...
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The world's largest applied mathematics society honors five outstanding mathematicians. The International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) has announced its quadrennial prize winners. ICAM is a worldwide organization for professional applied mathematics societies, and for other societies with a significant interest in industrial or applied mathematics. The prizes will be awarded at the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, IC...
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