The price of glass is expected to surge this year amid growing demand, an industry leader said. Abdulaziz Bin Yagub Al Serkal, General Manager of Dubai Investments ( DI ) PJSC, anticipated an increase in the cost of glass in the midst of ...
Tags: Strong Demand, Glass
Britain risks “anarchy and chaos” if it fails to defend its smart systems from cyber attacks, according to a security specialist. Chris McIntosh, CEO at ViaSat UK, says that without high-grade defences to protect them, devices ...
Tags: Britain, critical infrastructure, customers, grid, smart meters
Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
Tags: Grid Spending, digital smart meter, GTM, BNEF
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Generating electricity is not the only way to turn sunlight into energy we can use on demand. The sun can also drive reactions to create chemical fuels, such as hydrogen, that can in turn power cars, trucks and trains. The trouble with ...
Tags: Hydrogen Fuel, Boost Promise, Choi, catalyst design
Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
On a typical evening in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, the neon-lit Aeon Mall Tan Phu Celadon bustles with shoppers arriving on motorcycles and in taxis. Crowds fill every corner of the new mall, with a takeout sushi store in particular ...
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Electron microscopy and spectroscopy are great tools for peering into matter on the molecular scale. But they’re not terribly effective if that matter happens to be biological. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago ...
Tags: Clear Image, Biomolecule, liquid stage, microscope
Vivergo Fuels, the biggest UK ethanol producer by capacity, said Monday it has steadily increased output in recent months, adding that a combination of oversupply in the European market and limited seasonal demand had led to lower prices. ...
Tags: Ethanol Production, EU Market
As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
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Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft, and petrochemical company Sibur Friday reached an agreement under which the oil producer will sell its 49% stake in a gas processing joint venture to Sibur and guarantee supply of up to 10 billion ...
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Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Russia-based pipe producing company United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has informed that it has won a tender for the supply of pipes for the construction of the first phase of the offshore section of the South Stream main pipeline. ...
Geothermal energy is set to play a bigger role as the State-owned Sinopec Group makes inroads into the clean fuel's exploration and development through international technological exchanges designed to reduce the country's carbon footprint. ...
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A new natural gas discovery in southeast Sichuan province - the single biggest ever - could ease domestic shortages in as little as a year and give China a stronger hand in energy negotiations with Russia, according to some experts. China ...
Tags: natural gas, domestic shortages