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Aamir Farid, Shell’s Vice President of Manufacturing – Americas, reflects on ChE-style manufacturing in an interview with 2013 AIChE President Phil Westmoreland following the 2013 Spring Meeting & GCPS keynote address, “Delivering Innovative Solutions for an Energy Future.”
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While new solar technology and installations often shows great promise, it’s commonly financing that determines true success. Learn more about innovative crowd-sourced solar projects that are helping solar get off the ground in the U.S.
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Duke Energy has started the largest battery storage project in the US at its 153 MW Notrees wind farm, where It can store 36 MWs of energy for 10,000 homes.
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BP has decided it’s a good time to get out of the wind business, unloading 16 wind farms in nine states with a total capacity of about 2,600 megawatts. Short-sighted, or good business?
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High performance computing (HPC) provides a crucial competitive edge in many industries, but there are few where it contributes more than in the costly world of offshore oil exploration. To get a jump on its rivals, French oil major Total has just launched its new supercomputer, called Pangea, which uses […]
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Many fear Chinese competition in the solar market, but what does it mean when a Chinese manufacturer goes belly up?
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Since technological and funding hurdles have forced many cellulosic ethanol companies to shut down, ZeaChem’s latest news is par-for-the-course as the cellulosic biofuels industry flails at mandates from the wildly ambitious Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
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Reported this week: researchers in Denmark and Switzerland have built solar cells from individual nanowires. Their work showed that the nanowires were able to absorb considerably more light than expected based on their size.
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Dow’s new thin-film solar shingles are more than just a new way to build solar panels, they’re also a high-stakes bet on a new look for residential solar.
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Michael Liebreich, CEO of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, says it’s not “alternative energy,” it’s just “clean energy” and believes it will eventually out pace fossil fuels as a cheaper energy source.
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