Feb 04 2010

Supercomputing time awarded

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U.S. Department of Energy announced today that 24 million super-computing time of one hour of 1.6 billion, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne, and the time available to research and development were awarded lithium-air battery materials, power supply for the capacity of the car 500 miles on one charge . Through innovation VGP-BPS10A,VGP-BPS10A/B,VGP-BPS10B,VGP-BPS11 and the effects of the novel theoretical and experimental (incitement) program, the research team includes representatives from the U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory and IBM scientists will use the world’s most powerful supercomputer designed for two to the air new materials required for lithium batteries. Lithium-ion batteries, in today’s new plug-ins for hybrid electric vehicles, there are about 40-100 miles range.
Calculations in the two Oak Ridge and Argonne, which is the world’s fastest computer, the top ten house 2.
“Computing and supercomputing is essential to resolve we face some of the greatest science, said:” Secretary Chu. “This year’s awards reflect the incitement in the complex modeling and simulation capabilities, which is essential to improve our economic prosperity and global competitiveness of the tremendous demand growth.”

The INCITE program provides a unique collection of computing resources, so that scientists and engineers to be cut, in a few weeks or months, rather than cutting-edge research required for a few years ago. The use of scientific modeling can accelerate the scientific breakthroughs in areas such as climate change, alternative energy, life sciences and materials science.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said Tang Mu Meisen, the battery project is two visits in 2009 from the Oak Ridge IBM vice president of research and development results. From these discussions, “it is clear cooperation between us has been an important and needed to solve more than 10 times the ratio of the energy challenges, in order to improve the battery for storage and transportation of the unique features of a lot of scientific problems.”
“Argonne is committed to developing lithium-air technology, said:” Eric Sachs, director of Argonne. “Obstacles to the Li-air battery to become a viable technology is formidable, but the Department of Energy supercomputer modeling and simulation capabilities will help us speed up the necessary materials science, chemistry and engineering innovation.”

With regard to incitement
Of new innovations and the impact of theoretical calculations and experimental projects to promote cutting-edge research, can be the most advanced supercomputer that only countries. The Argonne Leadership Computing and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory facilities, operational procedures. Facilitiesvgp-bps13 , vgp-bps13/s , vgp-bps13a/b vgp-bps13b/b,VGP-BPS10 Leadership Award (one for each project is usually the number of one million hours of processors) supercomputer from academia, government and industry researchers a considerable sum of money. These projects address “great challenge for science and engineering,” such as the development of new energy solutions and obtain energy use arising from climate change understanding. The INCITE program, which is the recent recognition of HPCwire government and industry in high-performance computing, but also several of the company’s super-such as General Electric and IBM funding to help develop new technologies beneficial to the U.S. economy.

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Feb 03 2010

Dongfeng Honda enable solar photovoltaic power generation system

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February 3 joint venture in China Honda - Dongfeng Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. (hereinafter: Dongfeng Honda) office was officially integrated solar photovoltaic power generation system, by importing new sources of clean energy, reduce CO2 emissions, in order to protect the global environment contribution.

Dongfeng Honda Opening the generation of solar photovoltaic power system project in late 2007, after nearly a year of preliminary research and investigation, in October 2009 launched the VGP-BPL2C ,VGP-BPL8 , VGP-BPL8A ,VGP-BPL9 construction, construction period is 98 days with a total investment of 4.67 billion Yuan. The system is mainly due to the electricity emitted by Dongfeng Honda creation routine use of office lighting, the whole system has an annual generation of about 100,000 titles (※ Note), equivalent to an integrated office lighting 4% of Total electricity consumption, so that to reduce about 101 tonnes annual CO2 emissions (※ Note), equivalent to about 1.01 million square feet of absorption of forests.

Moreover, Dongfeng Honda plans to launch in 2012 a second plant also uses the solar photovoltaic power generation for a portion of the operations of production processes to provide electricity.

Integrated Office roof photovoltaic power generation system

The opening up of solar photovoltaic system by generating a new generation of thin film of Honda’s independently developed solar cells, CIGS in order (copper, indium, gallium and selenium) compounds such as raw materials and thin film solar panels with similar products at the highest level of photoelectric conversion rates, and compared to normal silicon crystal solar cells, CIGS thin film solar panels on the production process to reduce consumption energy by half, with a light weight, long service life, little pollution in the production process characteristics, is a stage production of solar cells in protecting the environment altogether. Honda is the world’s only solar cell products involved in the cause of the car companies.

Honda from the beginning has been dedicated to environmental responsibility in production, R & D, sales, purchasing, services, and all other companies operating in the field to carry out activities of environmental protection. In China, Honda, took the lead in “Factory Great concept, a technology leader in the environment VGP-BPS9,, VGP-BPS9/B, VGP-BPS9/S ,VGP-BPS9A, VGP-BPS9A/Band equipment, resources and improve efficiency in energy use and reduce the use of CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse zero discharge of wastewater, “the factory of the environmental burden to a minimum. Honda will continue in future emissions of CO2, the lowest entrepreneurial activity, while offering customers the lowest emission products CO2, they become expectations of social responsibility exists.

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Feb 02 2010

The first solar cell phone is on the China market

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Sharp 27th January, said the Chinese market, the first mobile phone with solar cells and plans to officially launch in early February of this year safe.

It is assumed that the amount of very small silicon thin-film batteries and easier to reduce, energy-efficient products but also a new kind of building material, while mobile phones with Sharp solar cells Thin-film solar cell modules, in the sun equipped availability of light released 30-minute charge to call 1 minutes free. When used in stand-by, you use the time for 2 hours. Sharp side said, technically, there is still room for improvement in collection efficiency is only charging in the sun, Sharp hopes the use of artificial light load, so time may be longer speak.

2009 World Environment Conference on the “low-carbon life” concept of environmental protection in the lives of people, is among the many environmentally friendly VGP-BPS10A/B,VGP-BPS10B products, the use of solar energy product is not yet much he spread the concept of products equipped with solar panels with solar energy Sharp mobile phone market, to the reality.

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