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3/5/10
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Solar cells made from silicon are projected to be a prominent factor in future renewable green energy equations, but so far the promise has far exceeded the reality. While there are now silicon photovoltaics that can convert sunlight into electricity at impressive 20% efficiencies, the cost of this solar power is prohibitive for large-scale use. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), however, are developing a new approach that could substantially reduce these costs.
Mar 4 | News
Students at Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
Feb 23 | News
A patent has been filed by Purdue engineers for a heat exchanger that uses standard automotive coolant to help shed heat created by a metal-hydride-based hydrogen storage system. The great thing about metal hydrides is that pressure changes can release hydrogen for fuel, but the heat generated by absorption can drastically slow refueling.
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General Motors is reinstating several Nebraska car dealers, but the company is not releasing a list of the dealers so it's not clear how many will be included.GM said last week that it planned to reinstate 661 of the roughly 1,100 dealers it tried to drop from its sales network last year. The...
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Auto dealership group Sonic Automotive Inc. will offer up to $210 million in senior subordinated notes to institutional buyers, the company said Tuesday.Proceeds from the sale will cover paying back part of the company's 8 5/8 percent notes that are due in 2013, Sonic said in a statement.The...
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters said Tuesday that it has again extended a tender offer as it attempts to buyout Diedrich Coffee.The offer by Green Mountain subsidiary Pebbles Acquisition Sub Inc., which was set to expire on Monday, has been extended until April 5. The 20-day extension is the...
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A federal appeals court has upheld a Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision that allows a company to leach uranium at an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in northwestern New Mexico.A 10th U.S. Court of Appeals panel concluded in a 2-1 opinion Monday that the NRC took...
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General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC are dropping their fight against a bill aimed at helping Colorado auto dealers whose businesses were dropped by the struggling automakers.They changed their stance after winning some concessions backed by the Colorado Senate on Monday.The bill would...
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Brazil's president says his government has yet to decide which fighter jets his nation will buy.In his weekly newspaper column, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says the decision will be based on what is best militarily, economically and politically for Brazil.The Rafale jet from France's Dassault is...
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Continental Airlines plans to cancel flights rather than risk stiff fines under new federal rules designed to punish carriers for delaying passengers.CEO Jeff Smisek says that the airline will cancel flights that might be delayed three hours.Under a federal rule taking effect next month,...
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A team of engineers from MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratory (MTL) are working on tiny, low-power chips that could diagnose heart problems, monitor patients with Parkinson’s disease or predict seizures in epileptic patients.
8 hours ago | News
Mississippi officials expressed both disappointment and disgust with a Pentagon process that prompted Northrop Grumman Corp. to drop out of the competition for an Air Force refueling tanker contract.The Northrop proposal had set off a celebration along the Mississippi Gulf Coast and the Mobile,...
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SkyWest Inc., which operates SkyWest Airlines and Atlantic Southeast Airlines, said Tuesday its traffic jumped 11.6 percent in February on a similar uptick in available seats.The carrier recorded 1.34 billion revenue passenger miles in February, compared with 1.2 billion the same month a year...