US Northeast spot natural gas prices continue to trade at parity or a premium to New York Harbor fuel oil prices as cold weather blankets the region. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line zone-6 New York spot gas was trading around $18.69/MMBtu ...
Tags: Spot Gas Prices, Fuel Oil
VIZIO, one of America's leading SmartTV companies, today released its all-new 2014 E-Series Full-Array LED backlit HDTV collection. Backed by the brand's leadership in HDTV technology, the VIZIO E-Series line-up – now available at ...
Caustic soda or sodium hydroxide or lye is that chemical from which it is impossible to get rid of. May be only heard the name in your chemistry classes during experiments with bases, but just have a look on the labels of cleaning agents ...
Tags: Caustic soda, chlorine production, needs more precautions
February 17, 2014 Sophie Langley ALDI is gaining market share, and Coles is catching up on Woolworths European supermarket chain ALDI continues to go from strength to strength in Australia, quadrupling its customer base over the last ...
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Central Appalachian thermal coal prices closed mixed in the session, with only two trades seen Monday. A CAPP barge time spread was seen trading in the late morning, while a CAPP rail (CSX) quarterly swap went through after the 4 pm EST ...
Tags: CAPP Coal, Low Volume Session
Using one of the world's premier telescopes, University of Minnesota astrophysicists Evan Skillman and Kristen McQuinn have discovered a priceless relic of the Big Bang in the Milky Way's back yard. They are part of an international team ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The bench-scale test widely used to evaluate whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered furniture may underestimate the tendency of component materials to smolder when these materials are used in sofas and chairs supported by ...
Tags: NIST, Furniture, Tset, smoldering intensity
Railcar manufacturer FreightCar America estimates there were 16,500 coal cars in storage at the end of 2013, the lowest level since early 2012, the company said Wednesday. Reporting its quarterly earnings, the Chicago-based company said ...
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A monument to Thomas Edison, one of the inventors of the incandescent lamp, is to be lit with LEDs when it reopens after two years of renovations this summer. The 14-foot-tall glass replica incandescent lamp which sits atop the 118-foot ...
The fourth-largest energy consumer in the world is starting to make some noise on the renewables front.India,with its growing population and GDP,has announced plans to build a massive 4-gigawatt solar photovoltaic plant near Sambhar ...
Upgrading Lighting in Two Small Warehouses Leads to Big Savings Personal Security Products has undergone a lighting retrofit in two of its warehouses,a combined 11,800 square feet of space,saving$3,410 per year in annual energy and ...
Tags: Lumatech, Upgrading Lighting, Lighting
If frigid weather is making you shiver, there's an upside -- it might also help you burn calories. Both moderate shivering and moderate exercise may convert bad white fat into healthier brown fat, a new study says. White fat stores ...
Tags: burn calories, fat, diabetes, obesity, fatty liver
(Phys.org) —A team made up of researchers from France and China has developed a new model for describing the amount of black carbon soot pollution in the air. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
Tags: fuel onsumption data, striking results, National Academy of Sciences
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) announced today that the following projects (in alphabetical order) have been identified as the three finalist projects for the World Design Impact Prize 2013-2014: A ...
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A new method invented for energy efficiency savings in an economical way called the biomass briquette plant. The biomass briquette machines with latest technique not only made the costs of the traditional fuels come down but also saves ...