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Topping 307 mph is an amazing feat in any vehicle. It's even more so when the vehicle in question is a student-built electric vehicle. The...
ZSW, a German research institute focused on solar and hydrogen, announced today that it has developed a copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell to convert 20.3 percent of the light that strikes it into electricity.This nudges past the record set by ZSW in April with a cell with a 20.1 percent efficiency. The April mark broke a longstanding record held by NREL and also market the first ti
Suntech Power Holdings is now the largest solar panel manufacturer by revenue. Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech's Chairman and CEO, led this morning's second quarter earnings call. Here are the highlights:Suntech total net revenues for the second quarter of 2010 came in at $625.1 million. Net loss of $174.9 million mostly due to one-time impairments.Gross margin was expected to be in the range of
The United States has one of the safest food supplies in the world, and the current amount of dioxin we are being exposed to through food is so low that it does not pose a health risk.
Image via NASAOkay, you get it. It's hot. Perhaps I've been ticked off by one too many 'global cooling' myth purveyors, but here it is -- another story about how hot it is this summer, and this year in general. NASA has released another report showing that from Jan. to July, 2010 is still the hottest year ever recorded. Last July was in a three-way tie for the hottest of that month ever recorded.
If Russia's current heatwave being the worst in 1000 years and doubling the daily death rate in Moscow wasn't enough, check out this sweaty stat:...
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image: NSIDCRecent projections on the extent of Arctic sea ice melt showed, though this year's melting would be significant, no new record would be set. New data for July from the National Snow and Ice Data Center confirms this trend, but importantly also reveals how older, thicker multi-year ice continues dramatic declines.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
This year's low-oxygen "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico is probably the largest on record and overlaps areas hit by oil from BP's well disaster, scientists report. Gulf of Mexico - Dead zone - BP - Oil - Oil spill
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Relentlessly scorching temperatures have July flirting with the record books to become the hottest month since weather data were first collected more than a century...
Not only was the past decade the warmest on record, but climate indicators being tracked globally are worsening, scientists reported Wednesday in their annual "State of the Climate." Climate change - State of the Climate - Environment - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Activism
Image via Project GroundswellThis shouldn't come as much of a surprise if you've been following any climate related news this year -- we've already seen the hottest global averages ever recorded for April, May, and June, and the hottest Jan.-June period as well. And, of course, NASA, along with NOAA and many others have determined that the 00s was the hottest decade ever. Now, NASA is reporting t
Photo: QinetiqThanks to Solar PowerA week ago we wrote about the Zephyr "Eternal Aircraft", an unmanned solar plane that had just broken many records by staying up in the air for 7 days. Well, the Zephyr has finally landed at the US Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after 14 days and 24 minutes, setting a new record that will no doubt be broken the next time the Zephyr decides to take off (at
images: NOAAContinuing the hottest-month-ever trend... NOAA has released their global temperature data for June 2010 confirming that the month was the warmest on record, judged by combined global and ocean surface temperature. The January-June and April-June 2010 periods were also the hottest observed, since records began in the late nineteenth century. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Image via Space.comThe Earth's upper atmosphere has had a record breaking collapse, one that has scientists both puzzled and worried, NASA announced Thursday.The collapse occurred during a period of low solar activity known as a "solar minimum." During a solar minimum, sunspots and solar flare activity heavily diminish. Since the date range of a solar minimum expands over a 12-month period, it ca
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