On this page the following entries were made in the “January, 2008” time-frame.
Archive for “January, 2008”
Porsche to Offer a Hybrid Version of its Four-Door Panamera
Porsche AG announced in early January that it will develop a hybrid version of its upcoming four-door Panamera. The Porsche Panamera hybrid will position an additional clutch and electric motor between the engine and the transmission, allowing the hybrid system to disengage either the engine or the motor, or to engage both at once. According […]
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U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged Up 45% in 2007
The U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity in 2007, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). The rapid growth shatters all previous records and boosts the total U.S. wind power capacity by 45% in only one year. The growth even exceeded AWEA’s expectations for 4,000 MW of new […]
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Drilling Complete on Australian Hot Dry Rock Project
The first commercial attempt to create a commercial geothermal power plant using hot dry rock technology reached a crucial milestone on January 22, when a production well successfully reached its target depth. Hot dry rock technology was invented to draw energy from deep underground areas where geothermal heat is abundant, but no water exists to […]
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2007 Ranks Among the Warmest Years on Record
2007 was either the second-warmest or fifth-warmest year on record for the globe, depending on which group of researchers you listen to. The Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS), a part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, claims that 2007 ties with 1998 as the second-warmest year on record, but the National Climatic Data […]
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New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
Scientists on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have closed out the inaugural season of an unprecedented, multiyear effort to retrieve the largest, most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
After three weeks of round-the-clock drilling for the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) […]
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