State-owned PetroChina has refuted local reports that it restricted natural gas supplies in some areas of northern China in order to force the government's hand in raising prices and accelerating gas pricing reforms. Local media, ...
Tags: PetroChina, Gas Supplies
In a move that it hopes will help usher in an age of low-cost solar power, Harvard University's Clean Energy Project (CEP) in June plans to release a list of 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic ...
Tags: Harvard, Solar Panels
A one-of-a-kind aircraft powered solely by solar energy took to the skies above Silicon Valley early Friday morning on the first leg of a planned trip across the U.S. The aircraft, called Solar Impulse, has the wingspan of a jumbo jet but ...
Tags: Solar, Computer Products
The profitability of turning corn crops into ethanol in Europe surged to seven-month highs this week following a jump in the spot price of the biofuel, according to data compiled by Platts. The corn-to-ethanol crush margin, an indication ...
Tags: Crush Margin, Chemicals
There are fundamental inverter sizing steps pertaining to off-grid and grid-tied battery backup that make the selection of the appropriate inverter with adequate capacity to meet the load requirements of your appliances. The sizing of the ...
China's PMI Decreased in April National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-05-02 16:35:49 Department of Service Statistics of NBS China Federation of Logistics and Purchases (CFLP) In April, China's manufacturing purchasing ...
The California-based assembler of the Chinese-made Coda electric car has filed bankruptcy. Coda Holdings, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the District of Delaware overnight, which is intended to ...
Tags: electric vehicles, Coda Files
The pump specialist Flux-Gerte GMBH from Maulbronn has conducted further developments on the highly flexible Viscoflux mobile drum emptying system, with which highly viscous, paste-like, non-flowing materials can be transported continuously ...
PGS reveals the ultimate seismic acquisition platform Monday, Apr 29, 2013 Safety, efficiency and productivity are the key features of the 24-streamer Ramform Titan which was named today at MHI yard in Nagasaki, Japan. The new ship will ...
Consumers are attracted to the ‘smart home’ applications that smart meters open up, according to a report by O2. A YouGov poll commissioned by O2, revealed 60 per cent of consumers felt the idea of a ‘home of the ...
Tags: Instruments&Meters, Customers, Smart Home
Industrial Profits Increased from January to March National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-04-27 16:23:19 From January to March, the industrial profits of enterprises above designated size achieved 1,174.0 billion yuan, an increase of ...
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MHI signs contracts with PGS of Norway for 2 additional Ramform vessels, capable of high-accuracy, wide-range 3D seismic data acquisition Friday, Apr 26, 2013 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has received an order for two vessels ...
Tags: Transportation
Ofgem has approved an industry code-of-practice designed to protect consumers during the smart meter roll-out. “With the roll-out of smart meters getting fully under way next year, it is essential that householders and businesses ...
Tags: Smart Meter, Meters
Training with power remains one of the most elite market niches in cycling: so expensive that even some ProTour teams limit their riders' access to power meters, keeping them under lock and key and lending them out for limited tests. In the ...
Tags: Transportation, bike, software, hardware
Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
Tags: Swiss Funding, IBM, Electronics