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Storage of energy from renewable energy sources is vital to Europe’s energy policy. DTU Energy and partners use atomic modelling to develop a rechargeable zinc-air battery that is able to store large amounts of energy.
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First measurements at the Institut Curie’s Orsay Proton Therapy Center (France) show that the power consumption of the cyclotron has been lowered by an average of 30% over a month’s period.
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AJapanese technology firm Ricoh is looking at its new "energy-generating rubber" as one solution. According the company, the new piezoelectric polymer converts pressure and vibration into electric energy with high efficiency, yet is extremely flexible and durable.
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Eidesvik is retrofitting its offshore support vessel (OSV) Viking Queen with a 650 kWh, 1600 kW energy storage system. The Viking Queen is the first OSV to get such a system installed as a retrofit solution.
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The Spanish Kurata Systems business group, led by the Torres family, has launched a new industrial plant in Barajas de Melo (Cuenca), which converts waste from refinery, industrial oil and plastic into fuel oil through a process of treatment, gasification and molecular transformation.
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A laser land leveller - a machine equipped with a laser-operated drag bucket - is much more effective and quicker at ensuring a flat, even surface.
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The PBCF is an energy-saving device attached to the propeller of a vessel. It breaks up the hub vortex generated behind the rotating propeller, resulting in a decrease of more than 9,000 tons of CO2 emissions per year because of a 3-5% reduction in fuel consumption.
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The federal government has opened a new data centre it says will save taxpayers millions in operating costs and provide stability for numerous government departments.
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Belarus is ready to implement complex energy-saving solutions, BelTA learned from Andrei Minenkov, Head of the Research and Technology Policy and Foreign Economic Ties Office of the Energy Effectiveness Department of the State Standardization Committee of Belarus.
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The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) published the 2015 edition of its biennial City Energy Efficiency Scorecard today, ranking U.S. cities based on their local energy policies and initiatives. And for the second time in a row, Boston is top of the class.
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In the first 4 months of 2015, EVN-SPC saved over 390 million kWh equivalent to 2.56% of commercial electricity. Meanwhile, EVN-HCMC saves 150.28 million kWh, accounting for 2.51% of electricity consumption.
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A new initiative has helped reduce energy use by 30% in university buildings across Europe.
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According to the study, pulsed electric fields, an emerging technology in the food industry that has been shown to effectively kill multiple food-born microorganisms, could provide an alternative, non-thermal pasteurization process.
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Grain farm operating expenses have increased steadily over the past decade, with the high costs of inputs, especially electricity, becoming one of the most serious challenges facing farmers.
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The social housing sector has been at the forefront of the adoption of different types of energy efficiency technologies and water-saving features as it has generally been building new homes to higher levels of the Code for Sustainable homes.
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The self-regulating tire system that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company has developed with funding from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) uses a new technology—called Air Maintenance Technology (AMT)—that works similar to the way muscles push food through the human digestive tract.
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Thailand's Eleventh National Economic and Social Development Plan for 2012-2016, has targeted improvements in natural resource and environmental quality through the development of energy security policies.
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“The Comcast Innovation & Technology Center is a prime example of the integrated, sustainable urban environments that Schindler is so proud to support,” said Greg Ergenbright, president, Schindler Elevator Corporation.
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In support of White House's ambitious performance goals, GSA’s Green Proving Ground (GPG) program recently published the results of three evaluations of technologies with the potential to cost-effectively reduce the energy and water use of our federal buildings.
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The upgrading and upgrading of sand making machine is generally specific inside the improve of greater yield.
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Because it is extremely expensive to run the heat, lights and refrigerators around the clock, convenience stores throughout Japan have developed innovative ways to save money and energy.
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The Belgian heating oil sector has set up an energy specific labelling system, notably "Optimaz" & "Optimaz-elite" labels, to promote the sales and installation of high efficiency oil boilers.
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Siemens' blade factory in Fort Madison, Iowa, and Siemens aerodynamic engineering center in Boulder, Colorado, were heavily involved in the development of the SWT-2.3-120's aeroelastically tailored blades.