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Noble Energy announces significant natural gas discovery at Leviathan offshore Israel

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announced a significant natural gas discovery at the Leviathan exploration prospect offshore Israel. Noble’s second contracted rig will arrive in the Eastern Mediterranean in early 2011 to spud a Leviathan appraisal well located 8 miles (13 kilometers) northeast of the discovery well. Source: Noble Energy. Click to enlarge.

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Israeli company reports successful stage 1 testing of solar CO2-to-fuels technology

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Israel-based NewCO2Fuels (NCF), a subsidiary of GreenEarth Energy Limited in Australia, reported completion of stage 1 testing of its proof-of-concept system for the conversion of CO 2 into fuels using solar energy. NewCO2Fuels was founded in 2011 to commercialize a technology developed by Prof.

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Wrightspeed named as World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer

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Other selected pioneers come from France (2), Luxembourg (2), and Canada, Israel, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The Technology Pioneers are mostly active in IT, health (medtech), food, energy, environment, financial services (fintech) and production.

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Small amounts of water in electrolyte for Si-air battery improves discharge performance

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Researchers from Israel Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University report in a paper in the journal ChemSusChem on a Si–air/ionic liquid electrolyte battery whose performance improves with small amounts of water in the electrolyte. 2011), Remarkable Impact of Water on the Discharge Performance of a Silicon–Air Battery.

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Renault opens Innovation Lab in Paris to focus on future of mobility

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Renault Innovation Lab – Le Square has been designed as an experimental laboratory, open to its business environment and close to the Renault and Renault-Nissan Alliance teams to make the proliferation of ideas easier. The Silicon Valley Open Innovation Lab in the United States, opened in 2011, was the first innovation initiative.

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Researchers develop new approach to optimize hydrogen production in a photosynthetic process

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Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT’s Center for Biomedical Engineering, and postdocs Iftach Yacoby and Sergii Pochekailov, together with colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the in Colorado, have found a way to use bioengineered proteins to flip this preference, allowing more hydrogen to be produced. Ghirardi, Paul W.

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Renault and Better Place partner in Australia to launch Fluence Z.E. with switchable battery in 2012

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is targeting both private motorists and fleet operators who are looking for a vehicle that is both economical to run and more respectful of the environment. It will be sold everywhere in Europe and together with Better Place, in Israel and Denmark. As the first production mid-size sedan electric vehicle, Renault Fluence Z.E.

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