The lithium iron phosphate technology will revolutionize the battery. (Image Theme: www.pixelio.de)
(ANI) - Sony has developed a new type of lithium-based batteries, the high performance and long service life is in prospect. In addition, the batteries can be charged according to the company in just 30 minutes almost completely using crystalline lithium iron phosphate as cathode material.
(Paul-Georg Meister) - With generous funding federal and cantonal homeowners They support that improve their house hei a reorganization and energetically. Details, there was an information session in Grenchen.
(mgt) - The results of air quality measurements for the year 2008 show that the levels of contamination are high in the air we breathe as before. Thanks to the cool summer of 2008, however, remained low, the ozone and there were no striking Sommersmogbelastungen. Last winter, long-lasting inversion are absent. Is expected to create no relevant Wintersmogsituationen. This and other information can be found in the just-published annual report 2008 on Iluftqualität. The report can be downloaded from the Internet at www.afu.so.ch.
(ANI) - Every other plant and animal species is affected by the current mass extinction. The close ecologist at the University of California http://www.ucsb.edu in Santa Barbara from her recent comparative study of grassland ecosystems worldwide. "Even in our lifetime half of all existing species could be destroyed," warns study author Bradley J. Cardinale. His research team identified which require animal and plant species because of their ecological importance of special protection.
(Flora Press) - There are now enough reasons to become a homeowner was seriously considering the type of heating. It is important to things like the visibly deteriorating environmental situation, the (market involve-) political infighting in the crude oil market to the detriment of consumers or the availability of basic energy in the discussions.
(ANI) - By 2020, provides for the EU Biofuels Directive, a biofuel share of ten percent. So far, ethanol is produced primarily from corn, maize or sugar cane or sugar beets. Critics have ranked in the biofuel production to compete with food as ethically questionable. For some time, but researchers are working from agricultural waste products such as sawn timber and straw to produce biofuel.
(ANI) - Approximately one third of global food production, and probably two thirds of the major food crops depend on insect pollinators and, in particular by bees. The key factor is, however, not the total number of bees, but the variety of different ways, reports the science magazine New Scientist. The problem is, however, that the biodiversity of insect pollinators dramatically diminishes, as the study's author Patrick Hoehn of Agroecology, University of Göttingen http:// www.uni-goettingen.de reported.
(pm) - From 1 July 2008 the federal government reduces the fuel tax on natural gas as fuel and biogas entirely exempt from this tax. With the revision of the excise law, the federal government now supports driving with biofuel gas and biogas. He also officially confirmed its environmental benefits. The natural gas fueled in Switzerland, the CO2 emissions reduced by one third.
(ANI) - which specializes in mining products and bitumen production GeneralStrade SpA based in Milan has Barlassina at the Milan Polytechnic in collaboration with a new type of pavement http://www.polimi.it developed.
