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Renewable Portfolio Standards Help Wind Industry to Sail

In the United States, wind power is the fastest growing form of electricity generation. In 2005, more than 2,400 megawatts of wind energy were added to the nation’s power grid, and it is expected that the market wi...

13 Mar 2006

Ausmelt Win Contract for Chinese Nickel Smelter

Ausmelt Limited has won a major contract to provide technology for a new nickel smelting plant to be built by Jilin Nickel Group (Jilin), China’s second largest nickel producer. The contract will deliver revenues t...

9 Mar 2006

ThyssenKrupp to Provide Innovative Open Pit Mining Equipment for China

ThyssenKrupp has received an order from Huaneng Yimin Coal and Electricity Co. Ltd. to deliver a new continuous coal crushing and haulage system for the phase 2 expansion of the Yimin open-pit coal mine in the People&#39...

6 Mar 2006

Incinerated Waste May be a Viable Fuel Source According to Russian Research

Enormous benefit for humans and without harming the environment can be extracted from domestic waste, old car wheel casings, industrial wastes and even silt, that remain after cleaning sewage outflows. It transpires that...

4 Mar 2006

Archaeologist to Probe the True Value of Roman Silver Coins

An archaeologist at the University of Liverpool is examining more than 1,000 Roman silver coins from museums around the world in order to establish their true economic value. Dr Matthew Ponting, from the University&rs...

4 Mar 2006

Max Planck Researchers Precisely Examine Characteristics of Positronium Ions

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have now begun closely examining this short-lived three-particle system. With an unprecedented accuracy, they measured the lifetime of positroniu...

24 Feb 2006

Optical-Based Quantum Computer Solves Problems, Without Running!

By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm - without ever running the algori...

23 Feb 2006

PANalytical Release XRF System Designed Specifically for the Mining and Mineral Industry

PANalytical has extended its range of industry specific, wavelength dispersive, sequential XRF spectrometers with the launch of the new Axios-Minerals system, configured specifically to meet the needs of users in the min...

20 Feb 2006

Alcoa Plans World-Class Aluminum Smelter in Trinidad and Tobago

Alcoa has announced that it has signed an Agreement in Principle with the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to build a world-class 341,000 metric-tons-per-year aluminum smelter (mtpy) in the Cap-de-Ville ...

17 Feb 2006

CSIRO Develop New Technology that Could Save The Printing Industry Millions of Dollars

A novel method for coating printing rollers could slash the use of chemicals, water and excess energy in the printing rollers manufacturing industry if a trial by one Australian company is anything to go by. The Kirk ...

17 Feb 2006

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