27.7.2008 von pit.

update: startdate is now official at 10′th September

have a look at the current cooldown status. 96 tonnes of liquid helium is needed to maintain the 1.9K temperature required for superconductors. I recently read that this is aside all other things also a new record, until now most experiments only need “a spoon full” of helium for their experiments.
Keep going I’ll keep my eye on this for sure

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27.7.2008 von pit.

TUM (technical university munich) created a system to detect toxic elements induced into rivers. It uses biosensors from Cellasys and for instant notification a mobile handset is used.
Researchers of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (ISE) set a new record in electrical efficiency (6.7 %) for Solar energy generation using fluorescence collectors. They use coloured platters to redirect light to solarcells sitting at the border. another step to outside surfaces being used more efficient.
And Osram announced a new record in luminance and eeficency with white LED’s. in standard environment, they achieved with 350 Milliampere (mA) 136 Lumen per Watt (lm/W). These are the results of combining recent advances of the material and technlogy departments. 500 Lumen is the outcome when using 1.4 ampere. This could be a solution for streetlights, as a recent study of TU Darmstadt revealed that it costs about 760 Miollion Euro each year. And by switching to LED technology we could save about 400 Million Euro, not to mention the savings of 1.6 Million tons of CO2.

Scilife, a new platform for scientist was created recently.

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