Advanced test instrumentation has helped a UK-based solar PV specialist to significantly improve the electricity supply on two off-grid Hebridean Islands. Renewables specialist Wind & Sun Ltd. has recently completed two new innovative ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
During the past decade the telecommunication industry has seen a sea of change occurring all over the world with the introduction of new and more efficient technologies which help in a more quality driven communication between people who ...
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Shaft alignment is a prerequisite to running machines, the misalignment of which can cause malfunctions, accidents and injuries. Positioning shafts relies on certain tools as human judgment leaves too much room for error. Laser shaft ...
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Voith is investing into the future of small hydro and celebrates two significant milestones in the further development of this sector: K?ssler, a subsidiary of the Voith Group, is expanding its location in Sankt Georgen am Steinfeld, ...
Would you drink GM wine? Could neonics on retail nursery stock be to blame? California raisin grape production up, table olives lower It is utterly amazing how underwater turbines that move water to millions of acres of productive ...
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The most powerful generator-turbine unit ever built by Voith has entered service in the Chinese hydropower plant Xiluodu on the Jinsha River. After a successful 72-hour test run, Voith handed over the first of a total of three such machines ...
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We all remember our school textbooks, which had chapters dedicated to non-conventional sources of energy. Today, those sources play an important role in our lives at an age where we are desperately looking to reduce our dependence on fossil ...
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GE Global Research—the technology development arm of the General Electric Co.—discussed research that, it believes, could significantly impact the design of future wind turbine blades. Using high-performance computing (HPC) to ...
The market for semiconductors used in industrial electronics applications relished a better-than-expected first quarter as macroeconomic headwinds turned out to be less severe than initially feared, according to the latest Industrial ...
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"China's rare earth ore exports have been rebounding monthly since February,"said Ma Rongzhang, secretary-general of the China Rare Earth Industry Association. But Ma and the association did not provide export figures for the first half. ...
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Alstom has been awarded a contract worth more than $ 90 million for Hydro-Quebec's La Romaine 3 power house, which is one of four new power houses that make up the 1550MW La Romaine hydroelectric complex located north of the municipality of ...
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That renewable energy is the future of power production is crystal clear, but so too may be energy storage. Researchers at Penn State's Materials Research Institute are developing a thin and flexible glass, about one-tenth the thickness ...
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Desalination has become an essential tool to enable effective management of water strategies in the 21st century. To celebrate 50 years of Filtration+Separation we take a look back at the last 50 years of desalination by discussing major ...
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Steam-operated machines are used in a number of industrial sectors. When moisture mixes with steam, it can have a detrimental on the internal elements of such machines, thus affecting their overall performance and productivity. Such steam ...
Aspiring communities across the nation will be able to receive Feed-in Tariff (FITs) payments for the clean green energy generated by larger community energy projects, under new plans set out by the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
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