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12.21.15 -- Engineers Develop 'Invisible Wires' That Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

2015-12-18 01:16:48| fiberopticsonline Home Page

12/21/15 Fiber Optics Online Newsletter

The Invisible Spill Spewing the Gases of a Half-Million Cars

2015-12-07 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Call it the invisible spill. You cant see it, but its there -- a steady stream of natural gas seeping out of the pipe casing in a well in Southern California that may spew as much greenhouse gas into the air as a half-million cars do in a year. Pipeline operator Sempra Energy says it may take three to four months to plug. Using the same tactic that eventually ended the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the company is boring a well thatll intercept the damaged one to stop the...

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Stanford Engineers Develop 'Invisible Wires' That Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency

2015-12-03 00:44:53| fiberopticsonline News Articles

A solar cell is basically a semiconductor, which converts sunlight into electricity, sandwiched between metal contacts that carry the electrical current. By Mark Shwartz

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Rising Temps, Invisible Threats: Climate Change Spurs Disease Fears

2015-11-27 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NDTV: Winter was oddly mild in northern Texas in 2012, a year that saw few snowflakes and barely any ice. When the cold failed to show up, the spring mosquitoes arrived in droves, carrying disease. The insects multiplied during an unusually muggy May, when temperatures hit the 90s and then stayed there. On June 20, Dallas recorded the season's first case of West Nile virus. By late August, there were nearly 400. Nineteen people would die in the greater Dallas area in the worst West Nile outbreak...

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