Italy is in the midst of a solar surge, outpacing the United States and coming in second only to solar powerhouse Germany in the push to install new projects. The Mediterranean country’s solar boom is likely to continue for the next several years, thanks to recently adopted changes to its feed-in tariff scheme and a new national authorization process for solar projects. In the meantime, the U.S. solar industry says implementing similar policies stateside could propel domestic solar growth, and...
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BERKELEY — The world's largest applied mathematics society, the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), has awarded two of its five quadrennial prizes to two University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) mathematicians. Alexandre J. Chorin, University Professor of Mathematics and a senior scientist in LBNL's Mathematics Group, will be honored with the 2011 Lagrange Prize, established "to provide international recognition to i...
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Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced six energy research and development projects that could change how the country uses, stores, and produces energy. Funded with $9.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the projects round out the selections made by the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy. The funded projects are aimed at improving energy efficiency in buildings by reducing loads on air conditioners, reducing costs associated with generati...
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September 15, 2010 - The University of Dayton Research Institute has been awarded a six-year, $44.5 million-ceiling contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The grant will fund research, development and technical transition on advanced composite, hybrid and thermally engineered materials and organic and organic-hybrid materials systems and devices for future Air Force systems. Work performed by the Research Institute will support the in-house research effort at the Nonmetallic Materials ...
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The KD2 Pro is a fully portable field and lab thermal properties analyzer. It uses the transient line heat source method to measure thermal diffusivity, specific heat (heat capacity), thermal conductivity, and thermal resistivity. Sophisticated data analysis is based on 30+ years of research experience on heat and mass transfer in soils and other porous materials. AThe compact KD2 Pro controller is much more than a simple readout for time and temperature. A proprietary algorithm fits time and te...
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The Public Utilities Commission in a draft report nails down the most populous U.S. state's price of going green at a time of economic turmoil and as Congress considers federal legislation to address global warming, which is the impetus of the California push. The report is a litany of challenges facing California, including environmental conflicts over building transmission and power plants in pristine areas, dependence on largely untested technology called solar thermal, and conflicting state ...
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The 250-megawatt Beacon Solar Energy Project has been approved by the California Energy Commission. When built, it will be the first large-scale solar thermal plant in the US in over 20 years and will generate enough power for 100,000 homes. This is first of many such solar thermal projects planned for the Mojave area. Twelve more may be approved by the end of the year with a total of 34 being planned. If they all are built, then 300,000 acres of the Mojave Desert will be used to generate 2.4 g...
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Coal has always been cheap and dirty. And the dirty part was justifiable because it was so cheap. Now, gas prices are dropping, threatening coal's dominance in the North American energy market. Which means gas could take over before coal gets a chance to clean up its act. Natural gas dropped in price last week, trading at under $4 per million British thermal units-the unit used to measure energy output. The price is competitive with coal on a Btu basis, David L. Goldwyn of the U.S. Department of...
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Cole-Parmer has been a leading global source of laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, equipment, and supplies. We are proven experts in the fields of temperature measurement and control, electrochemistry, and fluid handling. Our products are sold throughout the world through company-owned customer channel outlets and a strong network of international dealers. We boast an on-site, A2LA-accredited metrology lab for instrument calibration, repair, and NIST-traceable ce...
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The Dow Chemical Company will showcase its new solutions designed for photovoltaic manufacturers at this year's 25th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (PVSEC) in Valencia, Spain (stand L3/H4/B4, Hall 4, Feria Valencia). Dow's photovoltaic solutions can help increase solar cell efficiency and solar module durability, improve device performance at lower cost, and enable widespread adoption of solar energy. Solutions being showcased include: -- Dow's ENLIGHT(TM) cleaning,...
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