Feed-in tariffs (FIT) have been the preferred policy in many regions of the world to help support investors to rapidly increase installation of renewable energy installations projects and markets. Under most FITs, homeowners, businesses, ...
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Siemens last month inked a deal with the Cape Wind project that could be a significant step to advance wind farm activity in the United States. The plant is to operate in New England, on Horseshoe Shoal, an area of water toward the center ...
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In 2002, Secretary of state Donald Rumsfeld made a statement regarding weapons of mass destruction that today is still well known. He famously parsed the evidence (or lack thereof) into "known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns." ...
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South Korea's steel export was down by 4.3% in 2013, the first time within 4 years. According to Korea Iron and Steel Association, the steel exports totaled at 29.2 million tons in 2013, dropped by 4.3% from 30.5 million tons a year ago. An ...
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Egypt-based long steel producer Egyptian Steel has announced that it has signed an agreement with state-run Electric Transmission for a permanent 24-hour-a-day supply of electricity for its Beni Suief and Al Ain El Sokhna plants. Egyptian ...
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Briquetting plant comes from crop and forest residues, raw materials like groundnut shells, almond shells, corn kernels, cotton stalk, rice husk, tea husk, jute waste and so on. It can be used to make bio fuel that serves as alternative to ...
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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week - From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors KATO, Noboru (Nagaokakyo-shi, JP); OZAWA, Masahiro (Nagaokakyo-shi, JP), ...
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What is a Load Cell? A load cell is a transducer that is used to changes a force into an electrical signal or into any other signal. This conversion is taken place in two stages. Through a mechanical arrangement, the force being sensed ...
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Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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Bordeaux Digital Printink, a leading innovator of a wide range of inks and coatings for a variety of demanding inkjet applications, printing technologies and techniques, and its distributor BRS, showcased Bordeaux’s broad portfolio of ...
This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a Cingular "Fast Forward" cradle and Motorola mobile phone in New York on Tuesday Nov. 4, 2003, and an Apple ultracompact USB Power Adapter, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, in New ...
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China's largest steel base, Hebei province, will cut 67.26 million metric tons of capacity by 2017 without putting too much emphasis on local growth in gross domestic product in order to create a sustainable development of the industry and ...
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New county-level federal data shows that, on average, Bay Area workers bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week. Workers in Santa Clara County pulled in an average $1,810 per week during ...
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In a previous article I demonstrated the additional distortion produced when using High-K ceramic capacitorsThe main differences between ceramic dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen ...
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Thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell maker GS Hong Kong Solar has officially opened its new 150,000ft2 manufacturing plant, which has a phase-1, full-production capacity of 40MW per year. GS Solar notes that it is ...
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