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3/10/10
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Even as EADS pulled out of the bidding process for the U.S. Air Force’s $35 billion contract for aerial refueling planes, the defense contractor Boeing is facing a busy time in it’s commercial business: the second Boeing 787 Dreamliner landed yesterday in Victorville, Calif., marking the first flight-test operations outside Washington state.
Mar 5 | News
Solar cells made from silicon are projected to be a prominent factor in future renewable green energy equations, but so far the promise has far exceeded the reality. While there are now silicon photovoltaics that can convert sunlight into electricity at impressive 20% efficiencies, the cost of this solar power is prohibitive for large-scale use. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), however, are developing a new approach that could substantially reduce these costs.
Mar 4 | News
Students at Virginia Tech’s Unmanned Systems Laboratory are perfecting an autonomous helicopter they hope will never be used for its intended purpose. Roughly six feet long and weighing 200 pounds, the re-engineered aircraft is designed to fly into American cities blasted by a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb.
Feb 23 | News
A patent has been filed by Purdue engineers for a heat exchanger that uses standard automotive coolant to help shed heat created by a metal-hydride-based hydrogen storage system. The great thing about metal hydrides is that pressure changes can release hydrogen for fuel, but the heat generated by absorption can drastically slow refueling.
11 hours ago | News
A convicted embezzler out on parole who snagged more than $9 million in business tax credits from the state of Michigan was charged Friday with defrauding an 86-year-old neighbor with dementia.A judge set bail for RASCO CEO Richard A. Short at $9.2 million. Short, 57, faces 24 counts of...
11 hours ago | News
The wreckage of Spain's economic growth model stands neatly aligned on the roads leading out of Madrid — row after row of unsold houses, windows dark, for-sale signs out front.Spain and other countries on Europe's financially stricken fringe are groping for a new basis from economic growth to...
12 hours ago | News
Contractor URS Corp. and the state of Minnesota reached a $5 million settlement Friday in the state's lawsuit over the 2007 downtown Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others.URS had a long-standing contract with the Minnesota Department of Transportation to...
14 hours ago | News
Pulte Homes Inc. is not seeing many sales as result of a federal tax credit designed to spur home purchases, an analyst wrote Friday, so its sales are therefore unlikely to fall after the incentive expires.Last year, Congress created a homebuyer tax credit of up to $8,000 for people who hadn't...
19 hours ago | News
Worldwide solar photovoltaic (PV) installations reached a record high of 6.43 gigawatt (GW) in 2009-a 6% Y/Y growth, according to the latest Marketbuzz 2010 Report from Solarbuzz, an international solar energy market research and consulting company, and a division of The NPD Group.
19 hours ago | News
Heavy truck equipment supplier Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. said Friday it expects its public offering of 3.8 million shares at $6.25 a share will result in proceeds of at least $22 million, after expenses.The company plans to use the proceeds from the offering for general corporate and...
20 hours ago | News
Boeing Co. will speed up production plans for its 777 and 747 models in anticipation of greater demand from commercial airlines in a couple of years.Both are wide-body planes capable of carrying more than 300 passengers and flying longer routes. Several Asian airlines have ordered the planes,...
21 hours ago | News
Airbus parent EADS says it is considering a new bid for a lucrative Pentagon contract for mid-air refueling tankers, but wants an extended deadline.EADS says that the Defense Department's new "willingness to extend the time frame" was a positive sign that the department "seeks competition."The...
22 hours ago | News
China's Trina Solar priced an offering of 7.9 million American depositary shares at $20.25 each on Friday.The company plans to use the net proceeds of the offering to boost manufacturing capabilities for photovoltaic cells and modules and also for research and development.Yet Trina already has...
22 hours ago | News
The state Legislature is being asked to study whether a potentially world class copper and gold prospect at the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay can coexist with that region's premier commercial sockeye salmon fishery.A hearing is set for Friday, following a request by the state Board of...