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Honda Starts Solar Hydrogen Station Operation Powered by Solar Array

-- Los Angeles-Based Station to Re-Fuel Honda Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle --

28 Jan 2010

Inovateus to Become Scheuten Solar's North American Channel Partner

Inovateus Solar, one of the nation's fastest growing distributors and integrators of cutting-edge solar electric power solutions is pleased to announce it will become the North American channel partner for Scheuten Solar Products. Scheuten Solar is a global leader in a variety of solar panel and glass technologies. Inovateus Solar will use Scheuten panels for a variety of installations from residential to utility scale projects.

28 Jan 2010

Sixtron Introduces Silane-Free Coatings for Solar Cell and Module Manufacturers

Silane-Free Coatings Offer Cost-Effective Solution to Pervasive Problem in Solar Industry

28 Jan 2010

Intermap Technologies Collaborates with Hella to Enhance Automotive Front Lighting Systems

Intermap Technologies, the foremost worldwide 3D digital mapping company, today announced a collaboration with Hella KGaA Hueck & Co., a leading provider of innovative driver assistance systems, regarding a predictive front lighting system based on Intermap’s reliable 3D road geometries.

28 Jan 2010

IPG Photonics Announces Acquisition of Alabama-Based Photonics Innovations

IPG Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ: IPGP), the world leader in high-power fiber lasers and amplifiers, announced today the acquisition of the outstanding shares of privately-held, Birmingham, Alabama-based Photonics Innovations, Inc. (PII), a maker of active and passive laser materials and tunable lasers for scientific, biomedical, technological, and eyesafe range-finding applications.

28 Jan 2010

ReverseEngineering.com Unveils New Engineering and Inspection Tool for MRO

ReverseEngineering.com announced today that its newest product, ReverseEngineering.com 2010, measurement based reverse engineering and inspection software, has been optimized for maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) operations. ReverseEngineering.com supports 64 bit supported CMM hardware under Windows 7 (WOW64).

28 Jan 2010

Market Research Report on Fibre Optic Broadband Development in Swaziland

Executive summary Swaziland is one of the last countries in the world with an almost complete monopoly in all sectors of its telecommunications market: The state-owned posts and telecommunications operator, SPTC, also acts as the industry regulator and has a stake in the country's sole mobile network, in partnership with South Africa's MTN. The planned unbundling and eventual privatisation of the incumbent and the introduction of more competition would enable the market to live up to its relative GDP strength.

28 Jan 2010

VLA Telescope Helps Astronomers Find Gamma-Ray Burst Alike Supernova Explosion

For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similiar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it. The discovery, using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, promises, the scientists say, to point the way toward locating many more examples of these mysterious explosions.

28 Jan 2010

Researchers Develop High Speed Optical System with Very Large Bandwidth

Light is better than radio waves when it comes to some wireless communications, according to Penn State engineers. Optical communications systems could provide faster, more secure communications with wider bandwidth and would be suitable for restricted areas like hospitals, aircraft and factories.

28 Jan 2010

NASA's MODIS instrument Captures Visible Image of Tropical Storm Olga

Residents of the northern coastal areas of Australia's Northern Territory and NASA's Aqua satellite have seen new life "blown into" a low pressure system that is once again Tropical Storm Olga

28 Jan 2010

SEKO Worldwide Installs 143-Panel PV System at its Portland, Oregon Facility

SEKO Worldwide – a global provider of supply-chain solutions, including comprehensive transportation, logistics and IT offerings – announced that its Portland, Ore. facility recently installed a 31-kilowatt, 143-panel solar voltaic system to supply the vast majority of its electricity needs.

28 Jan 2010

Cooper Lighting Releases Numerous LED Outdoor Products

Setting the industry benchmark for optical performance and reliability

28 Jan 2010

Cenergy Power Creates Unit in Vietnam to Handle Operations in Southeast Asia

Cenergy Power, a leading commercial solar developer in California, today announced the legal formation of a Vietnam-based subsidiary focusing on utility-scale solar power development and project-level human capital build-up in Southeast Asia.

28 Jan 2010

Columbia University, Ascent Scientific Enter License Deal for Optical Imaging Probe

Columbia University and Ascent Scientific announced that they have entered into a license agreement for FFN511, a novel fluorescent probe for optical imaging and measurement of synaptic activity in the brain.

28 Jan 2010

Suntech Plans to Set its First US Manufacturing Facility in Arizona

From the AZ4Solar Symposium today, Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer announced that the company's first U.S. manufacturing plant will be located in the City of Goodyear, Arizona.

28 Jan 2010