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1. Cost of solar energy declines

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... expanded. The study tracked the installed cost of 52,000 grid-connected PV systems installed between 1998 and 2008 in 16 states. It found that average installed costs, in terms of real 2008 dollars, ...

2. Scientists call for mirrors in space

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... the report said. The report's author, University of Calgary environment and energy physicist David Keith, said that cutting emissions is necessary to manage climate risk, but it's not necessarily sufficient. ...

3. Life may have developed in cometary oceans

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... 1 taken by the Deep Impact probe in 2005." The existence of liquid water in comets gives added support to a possible connection between life on Earth and comets. The theory, known as cometary panspermia, ...

4. UK pledges massive marine power investment

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... a giant, grid-connected socket on the seabed off the coast of Cornwall for wave energy devices to be tested on a huge scale - will be commissioned next summer. Renewable energy company Ocean Power ...

5. NASA’s Deep Impact gives clues how to discover water on distant planets

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... (short) wavelengths," said Cowan. "A spectrum of the planet's light that reveals the presence of water is necessary to confirm the existence of oceans," said Drake Deming, a co-author of the paper at ...

6. Stretchable displays coming to a garment near you soon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... a way to print flexible displays, meaning wearable displays may be just around the corner. The scientists have demonstrated a process for making a stretchable display by connecting organic light-emitting ...

7. Space shuttle Atlantis captures Hubble telescope

   (Space/Space Features)

   ... are expected to remotely connect an "umbilical" cord that will supply electrical power to the telescope. Meanwhile, NASA engineers continue to examine images captured during Tuesday's survey of Atlantis' ...

8. Harvard astrophysicist: Sunspot activity correlates to global climate change

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   ... light to the ocean's surface, then you will also give less energy to transfer the heat, or even the material itself, from the surface to the upper atmosphere. The connection between the surface and the ...

9. AT&T converting to natural gas on 8,000 fleet vehicles

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   ... To put that volume of gas back into the ground they are reportedly using 50 jet turbine engines, the same as are found on 747 airplanes, to power the pumps necessary to compress the natural gas back into ...

10. NASA scrubs shuttle launch on gaseous hydrogen leak

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... launch of Discovery's sister ship, Endeavour. Liftoff is now scheduled for Sunday, March 15 at 7:43pm EDT, though the exact date and time "is dependent on the work necessary to repair the problem." ...

11. Space shuttle Discovery set for launch on March 11

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... span of 240 feet, including the equipment that connects the two halves and allows them to twist as they track the sun. Altogether, the four sets of arrays can generate 84 to 120 kilowatts of electricity, ...

12. NASA delays Discovery launch to March 12 at least

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... The payload will include two solar array wings, each of which has two 115-foot-long arrays, for a total wing span of 240 feet, including the equipment that connects the two halves and allows them to twist ...

13. NASA may delay next space shuttle flight - again

    (Space/Space Features)

    ... International Space Station: The payload will include two solar array wings, each of which has two 115-foot-long arrays, for a total wing span of 240 feet, including the equipment that connects the two ...

14. UPDATED: Possible natural explanation found for West Antarctica's warming

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... structures connect vertically to the solar surface, and magnetic fields that emerge from inside the sun shape them. The temperature of a given structure varies along each field line. Near the surface, ...

15. Secure World Foundation looks to future of smooth collaboration

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... the environment, poverty, health care, etc. In our interconnected world we can no longer understand or approach these problems in isolation ... nor can we solve them with polarized views." Arsenault ...

16. Top 10 people in technology

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... under Baker's watch – at an accelerating pace: The browser is now used on more than 20% of all computers that are connected to the Internet, while it forced IE below 70% web usage share. Baker is the key ...

17. Hubble telescope tracks down E.T.

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    ... is the main reason for the excitement because, under the right circumstances, it could have a connection to biological activity as it does on Earth," Swain said. "The very fact we are able to detect it ...

18. NASA assembling powerful Ares I-X rocket, prepares for mid-2009 test launch

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Orion crew-module ejection system and its safe return to Earth during a simulated aborted launch. NASA's 2009 test flight will also include a necessary test, the real-world analysis of the craft's aerodynamic ...

19. Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... of Nanoscale Magnetic Activity Using a Single Carbon Nanotube" in Nano Letters. Funding Funding for this project was provided by the New York State Interconnect Focus Center at Rensselaer. ...

20. Dean Kamen's island reduces energy consumption by 50%

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... that has reduced its energy consumption by 50%. North Dumpling Island is located just off the Connecticut coast. The three-acre island houses what Kamen jokingly calls an independent nation. The island ...

21. Electric vehicle plan endorsed by Hawaii

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... that already exist and pairing them with an Internet connected network of tens of thousands of recharging stations, Agassi believes that his company Better Place, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, ...

22. UPDATE: Removing a major hurdle to wide acceptance of battery powered vehicles

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... and drop it off. They're all connected through the same system, just pick one up where it's needed and drop it off when you're done. And of course, once home again and the trailer's back at the facility, ...

23. NASA tests interplanetary Internet

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      Interplanetary Internet? Shouldn’t we figure out how to survive conveniently on other planets first before we are making plans for an Internet connection on Mars? Questions like this one may come ...

24. UPDATED: Endeavour at ISS, now ready for work

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... connected to the ISS. This module contains a water reclamation system which recycles nearly all urine as drinkable water through a 7-stage chemical cleanup process. The module also contains "a second toilet ...

25. NASA ends impressive Phoenix Mars mission

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... temperatures, do not provide the necessary sunlight to charge the lander’s batteries as the northern Mars summer approaches autumn. The mission was originally scheduled to last three months, but exceeded ...

26. Tiny solar cells provide big power for nanosensors

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... is how they detect chemical leaks. And, they've been used for a long time. In the past they've required a DC battery connection for testing and these batteries have to be maintained. The new power ...

27. Sun releases Solaris 10 10/08 with Intel optimizations

    (Software/Software Brief)

    ... among Solaris systems and reduce the administrative overhead necessary to move a container between unlike system configurations. Sun also said that Solaris 10 supports Intel's latest Intel Xeon [7400 ...

28. UPDATED: British documentary cites science, sun responsible for both global warming and cooling

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... inspection shows a connection, what those scientists aren't showing is there are even more compelling graphs with much tighter correlations between solar activity (the sun heating up/cooling down) and ...

29. 20 Cleantech Industry Movers and Shakers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... battery systems, and Cobasys’ future way may see some challenges, but for now it is a key player in the battery market. Nanotech & Materials 12. Hycrete: Concrete is a necessary material in construction. ...

30. Nanoantennas envisioned as possible replacement for solar cells

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... advances” are necessary to turn this vision into reality. They said that  infrared rays create alternating currents in the nanoantennas that oscillate trillions of times per second, requiring a component ...

31. Canadian community first to go completely solar

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... community has 52 homes and has installed multiple solar panels on the roofs of the homes and garages. Gylcol solution runs through an insulated piping system and connects the solar panels together. The ...

32. The perfect portable computing device of 2015

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... the end will become the enabling technology.    Hardware requirements Basically, the perfect notebook would be one that is always with you and constantly both connected and powered. If we ...

33. Napkin PC wins Microsoft’s PC Design competition

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... a system where the user would be able to interact with any number of interfaces connected to the same network, Holleman said. “I felt I had good ideas. But they needed a package.” While contemplating ...

34. MIT and Fraunhofer create green technology partnership

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... with the New England Energy Cluster, a group of currently 184 alternative energy-focused companies in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont.  ...

35. Scientists use nano manufacturing processes to construct new materials with tailored properties

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... which are necessarily in otherwise undesirable real-estate locations, such as deserts.  And with the ability to vary the band gap width through this kind of specialized nano construction, this reality ...

36. Possible safe fuel storage method found for hydrogen powered cars

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... quantities of hydrogen necessary for use in hydrogen powered vehicles.  It's a three-part mixture which, when heated to 150C, begins to give off hydrogen gas, and only hydrogen gas.  ...

37. EMCORE to acquire telecom portion of Intel's Optical Platform Division

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... for both terrestrial and satellite solar products, including a GaAs (gallium arsenide) solar cell technology, interconnect technologies, and fully integrated solar panels. ...

38. Six fold reduction in semiconductor power loss, a faster, lower heat process technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... familiar with, using 65nm, 45nm, etc.  Tiny copper lines are created which connect all of the on-die circuits necessary for carrying out work.  Transistors are the fundamental workhorses ...

39. IBM makes predictions, sees the future five by five

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... lights, and more will be connected directly to a "smart" electric grid, making it possible to turn them on and off using your cell phone or any Web browser.  In addition to alerting you ...

40. In the year 2057, an Ant could carry today’s cars, says GM

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... no windows in the surface, but “flat surface panels” that are connected with “artificial muscles” (electroactive polymer actuators), allowing a silent reconfiguration of body panels ...

41. Solar silicon shortages seen, plus energy alternatives

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... flowed back and forth, even from the motion of waves near shores, the propellers would each spin electric generators connected to an electrical net providing external power.  As potentially silly ...

42. Photovoltaic nanowires provide nano-power from sunlight

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... comprised of these kinds of power generating threads.  The threads feed in to a central source which allows the very clothes we wear to provide the power necessary for all of our digital devices. ...

43. UK firm working on wind-powered cell phone charger

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... wind turbine. The charger can store energy in a separate partition.  When connected to a cell phone, the stored energy charges the battery.  According to PC World, with a constant 12 MPH wind, ...

44. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored: Installing VMware

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... Of course, adjust up or down as necessary for your needs.   VMware for both Windows and Linux is free, and it comes in two forms. VMware Server is the version you'll likely want to install ...

45. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... "test machines," even to the point of setting up a master test machine which can be copied and rolled out as necessary, sees tremendous advantages. There are also practical reasons for running ...

46. TG Daily Special: Leaving Redmond, WA in 24 hours

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... and familiar enough to allow a very good feel for its basic interface, speed, stability, usability, friendliness and general character.  If an always-on Internet connection is present, any of the ...

47. Trends in the PC space: HP’s iPhone-like PC, Gateway does color, Dell starts war against crapware

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... would suggest a next generation iLife-like product. I’ve heard that such a product is in the works but the name connected to the effort isn’t HP’s.    Leopard looks good but ...

48. Commercially viable organic solar cells expected to be available in two years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... in all kinds of variable shapes. If the efficiencies can be raised, they could power many more types of electronic devices in the future. Kwang-hee even sees of a future of wearable neckties and other ...

49. Intel to promote Solaris, Sun to build Intel servers

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to Intel's Paul Otellini, inquiring about possibilities of collaboration. While it may be surprising that Sun was moving towards Intel, given the firm's close connection with AMD, Schwartz had ...

50. NEC intros solar-powered monitor battery

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Making an early mark in the green electronics market for the new year, NEC today announced the availability of a solar-powered system that uses energy from the sun with a reduced amount of regular electricity, ...