Some of the fastest-moving tides in the world could meet half of Scotland's power needs. A new study finds that an island channel called the Pentland Firth has the potential to realistically generate 1.9 gigawatts of power—nearly ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
In 2013, total real estate investments in China amounted to RMB 8.6013 trillion ($1.41 trillion), up 19.8 percent year on year, with this growth rate up 0.3 percentage points compared to the year-on-year increase rate recorded in ...
Washington: Your small electric car may soon become faster and more efficient thanks to ‘super capacitors’ that are capable of storing far greater chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the ...
Tags: Raghvendra Pandey, CCTO, Electronic Car, TSU, super capacitors
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See ...
Tags: AIP Advances, CCTO, AC, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
The January 2014 Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) Survey of Investor Confidence reveals that despite some positive trends, such as sales and profitability continuing to rise off of a low base through the December quarter, ...
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Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
The market growth is expected to be driven by increased demand for devices with exceptional speed, low power consumption, smaller chip size, and reduced response time. Information and communication technology (ICT) and consumer electronics ...
Tags: 3D ICs market, Electrical market
Saudi Cement has posted a $68.3m (SAR 256m) net profit for the fourth quarter of 2013 – an 8% fall from the $74.1m (SAR 278m) figure it recorded in the same period the previous year. The company attributed the profit drop to a ...
Tags: Cement, Construction, Decoration
As the Wall Street Journal reports that one of the biggest issues right now is making sure these newly insured people have insurance cards, other news outlets detail reports and questions about the number of enrollees. The Wall Street ...
Tags: Insured Patients, Health&Medicine, Health&Medicine News
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford have found a new way to boost the survival of pediatric patients whose hearts stop while they are hospitalized. The researchers ...
Tags: Cardiac Arrest, Pediatric Patients, New Way to Boost Survival
While people over the age of 60 account for more than half of all shingles cases, less than 15% get the vaccination that helps prevent the blistering skin rash, which can cause lingering nerve pain. "I awoke with such pain in my head and ...
Tags: EMR, Pharmacist Intervention, Preventative Care of Shingles
Cinelinx, a card game for 'movie people', has taken to Kickstarter in the hope of going into production. The game sees played take turns laying down cards featuring actors, directors, movie titles, scenes, quotes or genres, before stating ...
Tags: Card Game, Film Buffs, Cinelinx, Kickstarter
Animin, virtual pets that exist in the real world through augmented reality, will be debuting at Toy Fair next week. The product has been developed by a group of AR tech specialists, digital artists and games developers at Figure Games in ...
Tags: Digital Pet, Digital Pet Animin, Augmented Reality Toy
Industrial production rose by 0.3% in December, the fifth consecutive rise, after a 1% revised increase the month before, the Federal Reserve reported Jan. 17. The figure matched the average forecast from economists surveyed by Bloomberg ...
The EU will announce climate change targets for 2030 next week but sharp differences over priorities and an unwillingness to take the lead while global rivals hang back may result in a modest compromise deal. The 2020 programme is widely ...
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