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New UK Legislation Warns On Biofuel Carbon Release

New UK legislation coming into effect on 15 April 2008 – the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation – will mean that biofuels must show significantly smaller carbon footprints than their petroleum-based cousins in order to ...

24 Mar 2008

Collaborative Research Makes Quantum Computing One Step Closer

Researchers at the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Microsoft Station Q have made significant advancements in understanding a fundamental problem of quantum m...

24 Mar 2008

New Measurement Technique Reveal New Iron Isomers

A ground state atomic nucleus can be something of a black box, masking subtle details about its structure behind the aggregate interplay of its protons and neutrons. This is one reason nuclear scientists are so keenly in...

24 Mar 2008

Joint MIT Research in Nanotech Advance New Era in Thermodynamics

Researchers at Boston College and MIT have used nanotechnology to achieve a major increase in thermoelectric efficiency, a milestone that paves the way for a new generation of products - from semiconductors and air condi...

24 Mar 2008

DuPont Glass Gives Building Shark Bite Mark

The Natural Gas Group headquarters features a ¡°shark bite mark¡± design

24 Mar 2008

Brookhaven Lab Propose Ambitious Plan For Solar Energy

Vasilis Fthenakis, head of the National Photovoltaic Environmental Research Center at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, will give a talk titled "Solar Grand Plan" at the Laboratory's Berkner...

24 Mar 2008

AMS Technologies Release New Green Laser Modules

AMS Technologies adds the FiberMax532 to its product offering. The new green laser modules with polarisation maintaining or single mode optical fiber complete BSR’s line of fiber-pigtailed modules.

From AMS Technologies AG 24 Mar 2008

Evraz Group Terminates Merger Negotiations

Evraz Group S.A. announced today that it has decided to terminate the merger negotiations between Yuzhkuzbassugol, a fully owned coal mining subsidiary of Evraz, and Raspadskaya, Russia's second-largest coking coal p...

21 Mar 2008

Linde Group Release High Speed Gas Injection Increasing Heat and Carbon Transfer Rates

The Gases Division of The Linde Group today announced that it will launch a new version of its CARBOJET® solution at TUBE 2008 in Dusseldorf, Germany. With high speed gas injection, CARBOJET® makes it possibl...

21 Mar 2008

Linde Nippon Sanso Signs Lucrative Contract With Solar Cell Producer

Linde Nippon Sanso (LNS), a company of The Linde Group, has signed an exclusive contract with Malibu GmbH & Co. KG in Bielefeld, Germany, to supply all of the gases needed to make photovoltaic modules. The long te...

21 Mar 2008

Trelleborg's Acquires U.S. Leading Offset Printing Blankets

Through its Trelleborg Engineered Systems business area, Trelleborg has entered into an agreement to acquire the operations of the US company MacDermid Offset Printing Blankets, with approximately 400 employees and sales...

21 Mar 2008

ELCOGAS World’s Biggest IGCC Power Plant Celebrate 10 Years of Operation

ELCOGAS S.A., a company owned by the Spanish energy group ENDESA, together with other European utilities (EDF, Iberdrola, EDP, ENEL) will celebrate 10 years’ operation of its integrated gasification combined-cycle ...

21 Mar 2008

ThyssenKrupp Steel Blasts Furnace Into New Campaign

After a record downtime of only 70 days, blast furnace Schwelgern 1 of ThyssenKrupp Steel in Duisburg is expected to begin its fifth campaign (production period between major overhauls) at the beginning of April. Built i...

21 Mar 2008

DuPont Develops New Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensor

SmartWave® is a new externally-mounted Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) for commercial trucks.

21 Mar 2008

BASF and SINOPEC Signals for $900 Million Expansion in China

BASF and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec Corp.) today submitted the technical and commercial feasibility study for the approval of the planned $900 million expansion of their joint chemical Verbund si...

21 Mar 2008