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New world record efficiency for thin film silicon solar cells
2013-02-12 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Simon Hänni simon.haenni@epfl.ch 41-327-183-228 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne A 10.7 percent conversion rate has been achieved using less than 2 micrometers of raw material The Photovoltaics-Laboratory (PV-Lab) of EPFL's Insitute of Microengineering (IMT), founded in 1…
Record snow in a warming world? The science is clear
2013-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: As the Northeast digs out from under a mammoth blizzard, it might seem easy for climate change skeptics to point to such intense storms as evidence that global warming isn't real. The reality is that such snowstorms often don't occur despite global warming, but because of it. They would be wrong. "Climate change contrarians and deniers love to cherry-pick individual events to argue that they are somehow inconsistent with global warming, when they are not," said Michael Mann, director of...