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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Lower corn prices in 2014 will likely keep a lid on Western hay prices, predicted Seth Hoyt, hay market analyst and keynote speaker at last week's Western Alfalfa & Forage Symposium in Reno, NV. Supreme alfalfa hay prices, he added, should ...
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A Californian court ruled that Nike acted within the law when signing Rory McIlroy on a $20 million a year equipment contract in 2012. The golfer's former apparel and eye-wear sponsor Oakley had sued the golfer and Nike in December ...
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XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and 'CIGSolar' manufacturing processes, says that the response to its Southern ...
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The technology news blog AllThingsD has relaunched under the name Re/code under a partnership with NBCUniversal, after splitting with News Corp's Wall Street Journal. Re/code is a "media news, reviews and analysis site launching today, ...
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Breaking the boundaries of women’s intimate apparel, Porscha Starr Lingerie will launch the first adolescent apparel collection in the United States. In the past retailers have failed to present a comfortable selection that is not ...
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Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have used low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of p-type gallium nitride (GaN) to achieve intentional surface roughening of a solar cell device, thereby ...
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With 23,000 tons of foam used once and then thrown away in New York annually, the city's goal is keep 75% of waste out of landfills by 2030 – even though Styrofoam is technically recyclable. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg ...
In a large swath of California, 2013 is closing out as the driest year on record, marked by above-normal temperatures and thirsty reservoirs. While a drought has not been declared, some communities have urged residents to conserve water. ...
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About Ribbon cables Electronic Parts and Its Product Range: A ribbon cable can be described as a cable with multiple conducting wires that run parallel with each other on the same plane. As a result, the cable is wide and flat, hence the ...
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Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars. The discovery gives strong support for one of the competing ...
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The species historically cited as the most abundant of coral algae that forms rodoliths at the Gulf of California in Mexico is in reality a compound of five different species. This finding was made by Jazmín Hernández Kantun, ...
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Struggling US computer giant Hewlett-Packard plans to slash 5,000 more jobs than previously announced because of a difficult business environment, a regulatory filing shows. HP will eliminate 34,000 positions by the end of its fiscal year ...
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The surge into social networks is gaining pace among Americans, with Facebook dominating but with many people using multiple platforms, a study showed Monday. A Pew Research Center survey found 73 percent of Americans over age 18 on the ...
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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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