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CHICAGO, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/-- Ygrene Energy Fund, the leading provider of property assessed clean energy (PACE) programs for local governments, today committed as part of the Clinton Global Initiative to accelerate nationwide PACE adoption by establishing 10 new Clean Energy Districts by the summer of 2015. This $10 million endeavor represents a very tangible example of the near term "Commitments to Action" made by the companies and NGOs participating in the CGI America...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Plant Farley's unit 1 resumed electricity production on Friday, June 14 at 2:47 a.m. CT following an automatic shutdown. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080801/SOCOLOGO ) On June 11 at 9:05 p.m. CT, Plant Farley's unit 1 reactor automatically shut down when a lightning arrestor failed on a transformer. All Plant Farley safety systems operated as designed and expected. All three of the transformers' lightning arrestors...
SHELTON, Conn., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P. (Iroquois) announced today that it has filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to construct its Wright Interconnect Project (WIP). The WIP is being developed in conjunction with the proposed Constitution Pipeline (Constitution) to enable delivery of up to 650,000 Dth/d of natural gas from the terminus of the...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today's mild, sunny weather can't erase the damage done by a ferocious storm that left more than 350,000 customers without power in the Carolinas at the height of the storm. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130322/CL81938LOGO ) Several thousand Duke Energy and supplemental crews worked throughout the night assessing damage and began restoration work for the remaining 200,000 customers still without power after heavy wind...
Far East Energy announces spudding of 30th well of 2013 at Shouyang; speaking on CNBC Asia CEO Mike McElwrath says that CBM is the precursor to shale in China; he will also be present at the Standard Chartered Bank Earth's Resources conference in Hong Kong next week. HOUSTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Far East Energy Corporation (OTCBB:FEEC) the US listed company that operates the Shouyang PSC in Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China, today announced that 7 new wells...
U.S. Reps. Cory Gardner and Peter Welch encourage more energy efficiency; Sen. Ron Wyden and Pulitzer Prize Winning author Daniel Yergin focus on energy efficiency's critical role WASHINGTON, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Public and private sector leaders exchanged ideas yesterday to address the importance of energy efficiency in a changing economy at the 24(th) annual Energy Efficiency Forum, co-hosted by Johnson Controls and the United States Energy Association, held in...
GREENBELT, Md., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and the Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) "Our work traces the complex motions, particle interactions and turbulent magnetic fields in billion-degree gas on the threshold of a black hole, one of the most...
Out in the wilds or anywhere off the grid, sophisticated instruments small enough to fit in a shirt pocket will one day scavenge power from sunlight, body heat, or other sources to monitor water quality or bridge safety, enabling analysis in the field rather than bringing samples and data back to the lab. Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario are using optics and photonics in their quest to "bring the lab to the sample," said lead researcher Vassili Karanassios of the...
DUBLIN, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Research and Markets ( http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2l4glt/the_market_for) has announced the addition of the "The Market for Coal Power Plants in Europe (Analyst Version) - Market Volumes - Projects - Strategies - Trends" [http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2l4glt/the_market_for ] report to their offering. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130307/600769 ) Investments in constructing new coal...
Editor Note: For more information about this release, please scroll to bottom. NEW YORK, June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Wall Street Reports announced new research reports highlighting Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO), Tesoro Corporation (NYSE:TSO), Marathon Oil Corporation (NYSE:MRO), Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP (NASDAQ:CLMT), and Ferrellgas Partners LP (NYSE:FGP). Today's readers may access these reports free of charge - including full price targets,...
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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...
