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Eye-catching solar structures by Spotlight Solar have been installed in front of a new LEED Platinum school, highlighting leadership in green building with solar design. Chapel Hill, NC (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Spotlight Solar has announced the installation of its striking solar design structures at a new school pioneering the latest in green building techniques. The school will go beyond net-zero energy by making more energy than it uses. Sandy Grove Middle School will open this year as the...
Established in Port Blair, the capital city, it is the first on-the-grid PV solar project on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The 5MW delivered by PROINSO for this project add up to the 55MW in PV materials supplied to solar energy projects in India so far. (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 PROINSO – a leading retailer of PV solar materials - has supplied 5MW to the first PV solar farm on the grid on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union Territory in India. The delivery to the farm located in the...
New JUICE app helps Windows Phone and Android users connect the dots between their daily habits and personal energy levels and serves up relevant tips from experts to inspire change. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 Building on the momentum of JUICE being a top-rated 4.5 star iOS app with over 100,000 downloads, Mindbloom (http://www.mindbloom.com) today announced the availability of JUICE for Windows Phone and Android. JUICE empowers people to discover what zaps their energy and offer...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research, building on a pioneering wind energy forecasting system that saved millions of dollars for Xcel Energy ratepayers in eight states, has entered into a new agreement with the utility for even more sophisticated weather forecasts to increase the reliability of solar and wind energy. BOULDER, CO (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), building on a pioneering wind energy forecasting system that saved millions of...
PowerFilm, Inc. launches new sales channel for sale to the RV and golf markets. Ames, IA (PRWEB) May 07, 2013 PowerFilm, Inc. today announced the launch of a direct to consumer sales channel for golf and RV solar panels with the release of a new e-commerce website. The solar panels kits are designed to trickle charge the batteries in both electric golf cars and RVs. The golf cart panels provide constant charging to the batteries during the day, aiding it to go further on a single charge...
FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology An international team lead by the University of Granada has found that female sparrows will invest more energy into laying eggs according to the male's ability to fill the nest with feathers which serve to insulate the chicks from the cold and keep them alive. Scientists from the University of Granada, in collaboration with the South African University of the Witwatersrand and the Percy FitzPatrick Institute at the University of Cape...
PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P. (NYSE: APL) ("APL", "Atlas Pipeline", or the "Partnership") announced today that the Partnership has closed on its previously announced purchase of TEAK Midstream, L.L.C. ("TEAK Midstream" or "TEAK"), a private midstream company. The effective date of the acquisition was April 1, 2013. Final cash consideration for TEAK totaled $1.0 billion, subject to working capital and other adjustments contemplated by the...
BEDMINSTER, N.J., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- KDC Solar LLC, headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey, through its wholly owned subsidiary, KDC Solar NJMG, has commenced commercial operations at North Jersey Media Group's (NJMG) printing facility in Rockaway, New Jersey. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130507/NY09476) The solar project is the largest PV solar system (4.96 megawatts) at any printing facility in the State of New Jersey. The new system, which will...
VANCOUVER, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP)(TSX: BLD) announced today that it is sponsoring a live, complimentary webinar event entitled "Hurricane Sandy and Commercially Tested Fuel Cell Backup Power Solutions" on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 2:00 PM EDT. Interested participants may register for the webinar from the 'Events' section of Ballard's homepage, http://www.ballard.com. The upcoming webinar will be hosted by Eric Denhoff, CEO of the Canadian...
CARLTON, Wis., May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion (NYSE: D) today shut down its 556-megawatt Kewaunee Power Station permanently, ending almost 40 years of nuclear-generated electricity at the station located about 35 miles southeast of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. Dominion announced last fall that it would close the station and decommission it because the company was unable to grow a Midwestern nuclear fleet to take advantages of economies of scale and Kewaunee's power purchase...
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The prominent feature that allows for the existence of life on Earth is the Sun. Radiation from our closest star provides heat and energy to our planet, driving biological processes and providing the necessary conditions for liquid water to naturally exist. But our Sun is only but one star in this vast Universe. And as it turns out, most stars are quite different than the one that illuminates our day. For this reason, scientists have, for hundreds of years, attempted to study the other...
The Antarctic Sea Urchin (Sterechinus neumayeri), is a species of sea urchin in the family Echinidae. It is found in the Antarctic Ocean living on the seafloor. It is common around the circumpolar waters, including the Balleny Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Terra Nova Bay, and Victoria Land. It is found at depths of about 820 feet. The colors of this species range from bright red to dull purple and can grow to 2 inches in diameter. The test (shell) is globular with...
The bolometer, invented in 1878 by Samuel Pierpont Langley, measures the energy of incident electromagnetic radiation. It consists of an absorptive element connected to a heat sink through a thermal link. The absortive element raises its temperature above that of the heat sink when radiation impinges on it. The higher the energy the higher the temperature rises. Old bolometers used metals while newer ones used semiconductors and superconductors as the absorptive elements. Bolometers can...
A gas stove is a cooking device which uses natural gas, propane, butane, Liquefied petroleum gas or other flammable gas as a fuel source. Since the gas pipe network was slow to develop, the success of the gas stove on a commercial level took some time to happen. Gas stoves were invented as early as the 1820's as isolated experiments but it was not until the 1880's that manufactured stoves were sold commercially. The first stoves were large and bulky, but over time they were reduced to fit...
A Vortex (plural: vortices) is a spinning, often turbulent, mass of flowing fluid. Any spiral movement with a closed streamline is considered vortex flow. The speed and rate of rotation of a vortex is always greatest at the center, with progressively decreasing speed away from the center. The fluid pressure is lowest in the center of the vortex, and rises further from the center (Bernoulli's Principle). The core of a vortex is sometimes visible due to a plume of water vapor caused by...
