The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene – the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon - promises exciting new things to come for the high-tech ...
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Tom Biery/Trans Pixs Diesel fell 2.4 cents to $3.886 a gallon, its first decline in four weeks, the Department of Energy reported Jan. 13. Diesel had gained almost 4 cents in the previous three weeks of increases, and its current price ...
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"The interface is the device," Nobel laureate Herbert Kroemer famously observed, referring to the remarkable properties to be found at the junctures where layers of different materials meet. In today's burgeoning world of nanotechnology, ...
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Currently, the most efficient methods we have for making fuel – principally, hydrogen – from sunlight and water involve rare and expensive metal catalysts, such as platinum. Humans have for ages taken cues from nature to build ...
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Hybrid Technology, led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, has bid $55 million for Fisker Automotive's assets, just days after a bankruptcy judge in Delaware rejected Hybrid's plan to take over the failed electric-vehicle maker in a ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new GATEWAY report entitled Pedestrian Friendly Outdoor Lighting. Recognizing that pedestrian lighting has different criteria for success than street and area lighting, GATEWAY followed ...
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Eddie Seal/Bloomberg News Diesel's retail price will decline to $3.81 a gallon this year — 11 cents below last year's average but 4 cents over last month's projection, the Department of Energy reported. And the price will drop ...
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Bruce Harmon/Trans Pixs Diesel and gasoline each edged up by less than a penny, with diesel rising 0.7 cent to $3.91 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Jan. 6. Regular gasoline gained 0.1 cent to $3.332 a gallon, DOE said after ...
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Two solid-state lighting (SSL) manufacturers are among the 12 businesses that will receive clean-energy tax credits ranging from $700,000 to $30m each (totaling more than $150m collectively), the US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced. ...
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Researchers have used one of the brightest X-ray sources on the planet to map the 3-D structure of an important cellular gatekeeper known as a G protein-coupled receptor, or GPCR, in a more natural state than possible before. The new ...
Tom Biery/Trans Pixs The average U.S. retail diesel price rose 3 cents to end the year at $3.903 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Dec. 30. The increase followed a 0.2-cent uptick in the previous week and left diesel 1.5 cents ...
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The U.S. diesel average rose 0.2 cent to $3.873 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Dec. 23. The increase followed a 0.8-cent drop the previous week and left diesel 5 cents below the same week a year earlier. Regionally, the ...
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Related sony Sony To Sell Off Gracenote LG LG Audio: Wireless Multiroom, More Sound Plates ce CE Holiday Sales Up 27%: Report sales CE Holiday Sales Up 27%: Report The cable and consumer electronics industries, energy efficiency groups ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published the findings of a new study utilizing a highly accelerated life-test method (called the ammer test intended to produce failures in SSL luminaires in a reasonable test period, with the goal ...
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced over $7m in funding for projects that bring cost-effective, advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies online faster. This investment will be used for four projects in Georgia, Kansas, ...
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