Monday, 14 June 2010 10:50
By Honey Garcia
China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. and theSwinburne University of Technology in Melbourne launched a solar facility where they said the next generation of solar cells will be developed.
The Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility is expected to pave the way for the commercialization of Nanoplas, a solar technology that allows for the …
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Suntech, Australian university house ‘solar cell of the future’
Obama wants a price on carbon pollution
June 4, 2010
BARACK Obama has tapped into public outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to push the case for imposing ”a price on carbon pollution” in a bid to hasten the US economy’s transition to clean energy.
And he pledged to fight for votes in Congress to secure the passage of a ”comprehensive energy …
Global SMEs sprouting in S’pore’s cleantech industry
Singapore, June 7 – Mid-sized enterprises, foreign and local alike, are sprouting in Singapore in the nascent but booming clean technology or “cleantech” industry.
Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) now estimates that such small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will contribute as much as half of economic output from the cleantech sector by 2015. It expects the industry …
Nuclear: Rethinking for a new generation, by Dickson Yeo, Valerie Choy, and Michael Quah
by Dickson Yeo, Valerie Choy, and Michael Quah
The possibility of using nuclear energy here and elsewhere in the region has generated debate, with many raising the specter of nuclear catastrophe. Perhaps it is time to demystify nuclear technology so it can be considered objectively.
Nuclear energy carries the stigma of mushroom clouds and radioactive contamination. But the visions …
