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Major funding to help cut CO2 emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1

The University of Nottingham is to share in £6.9m of research funding to investigate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies which could drastically cut CO2 emissions from fossil-fuel power stations. The funding fr ...


Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power

Technology / Energy

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Research by TU Delft, Netherlands, proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind ...


Don't blame cities for climate change, see them as solutions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Cities are being unfairly blamed for most of humanity's greenhouse gas emissions and this threatens efforts to tackle climate change, warns a study in the October 2008 issue of the journal Environment and Urbanization.





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Another 158 TV stations to kill analog early

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Regulators have cleared 158 TV stations around the country to shut down their analog broadcast signals before June 12, when the remaining full-power stations will end theirs.


Stations must warn if new TV signals lack reach

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- TV stations must alert viewers if their new digital signals don't reach areas covered by their soon-to-be-defunct analog broadcasts, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.


TV stations struggling with viewer loss on DTV

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

(AP) -- The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday.


British debate use of nuclear power

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created Jan 17, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

A disagreement has arisen among British scientists concerning the use of additional nuclear power plants to combat global warming.


Reception problems linger after DTV transition

Technology / Telecom

created Jun 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The shutdown of U.S. analog TV service on Friday appears to have gone relatively smoothly, but as expected, a lot of viewers are having problems getting the stations they want.


Researchers evaluate highway rest areas for wind power

Technology / Energy

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (45) | comments 0

Illinois is the Prairie State and home to the Windy City. And sometimes, when standing out in that prairie and feeling the wind racing across the state, you begin to wonder if there is anything between here and Kansas that ...


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Japan electric car makers, utility plan battery-charge stations

Technology / Energy

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Three Japanese electric car makers teamed up with the country's largest power company Wednesday to study ways to building a grid of battery charging stations for zero-emission vehicles.


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Chicago Installs Solar Powered Charging Station for Electric Vehicles

Technology / Energy

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (60) | comments 30

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the biggest arguments that some have made against plug-in electric vehicles is that they still promote the use of fossil fuels. When you have to plug in a car for a charge, the electricity ...


Magazine touts NJIT idea to harness clean energy for NYC

Technology / Energy

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An NJIT architecture professor with an architecture student has designed a network of modular floating docks to harness clean energy for New York City. The proposal was featured this week in Metropolis magazine.


Double-action power stations: Energy and hydrogen

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power, chemists say in Green Chemistry, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.



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