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CEO of Southwest Windpower, Frank Greco, announced today that he has found a successor. “The company has positioned itself as a global leader and is prepared to take its next generation step in growth. R. Dixon Thayer has accepted the position and will start with the company as its CEO on December 8, 2009. Mr. Thayer comes to Southwest Windpower with a history of experience and success that we believe will take the company to the next and subsequent levels it is destined for under his leadership,” said Greco.

The United Nations is not expected to reach a binding climate change agreement when it meets in Copenhagen next week, despite new emissions reduction targets by the United States and China.

National Wind, working with area ranchers and Montana Wind Resources LLC, has formed Judith Highlands Energy LLC, which plans to develop more than 500 megawatts (MW) of community-owned wind projects in the central-Montana counties of Judith Basin, Wheatland, Golden Valley, and Fergus.

Next-generation wind turbines and drive trains will be tested by the Clemson University Restoration Institute, thanks to a US $45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The Clemson University Restoration Institute and its partners will combine the grant with $53 million of matching funds, to build and operate a large-scale wind turbine drive train testing facility at the institute’s research campus on the former Navy base.

The Ontario Power Authority (OPA) has confirmed that it will pay Ontario farmers $0.145 CAD/kWh for their wind generation under the province’s new feed-in tariff program launched October 1, 2009.

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Maldon, Essex – CML Microcircuits (CML), a leading innovator and provider of low-power semiconductors for global communications markets, has introduced a half-duplex audio, signalling and data processing IC for use in Marine VHF radio systems.
The new CMX885 Marine VHF baseband processor is designed to meet the global requirements of low cost, highly integrated marine VHF transceivers by offering complete audio processing with selectable audio processing order.

Applications:
The CMX885 is the complete marine world audio and signalling solution with inband signalling capabilities including DSC, ATIS, DTMF, NWR WAT and SAME.
The CMX885’s embedded functionality also allows a very small, low power, low cost host microcontroller to be utilised as part of the overall marine VHF transceiver system.

Features include digital gain control, pre/de-emphasis, filtering, soft limiting and voice scrambling options.
Suitable for both portable and fixed (maritime) mobile transceivers, the CMX885 utilises dual Rx channel operation for DSC class D conformance.
The product also boasts a 1200bps Digital Selcall (DSC) modem with protocol support and an Automatic Transmitter Identification System (ATIS) modem, as well as NOAA weather radio decoding support.

Additional Features:
A full compliment of auxiliary ADCs, DACs and dual synthesised clocks is included in this low power marine VHF processor. A minimum of external components is required for the device that also offers flexible powersaving modes.
The CMX885 operates between 3.0V and 3.6V and is available in 48-pin VQFN and LQFP packages.

The CMX885 operates between 3.0V and 3.6V and is available in 48-pin VQFN and LQFP packages.
For designers wishing to evaluate the product, and reduce their design time, an evaluation kit (EV8850) is available from CML.

Handheld VHF Radio

Description:

The CMX885 is a half-duplex, audio, signalling and data processing IC for use in Marine VHF radio systems.

Comprehensive audio processing facilities include complete voice-band processing, filtering, pre- or de-emphasis and frequency inversion scrambling. The audio processing feature operating order is selectable. Signal routing and filtering is included to assist host µC based signal encoding/decoding applications.

A 1200bps Digital Selcall (DSC) /Automatic Transmitter Identification System (ATIS) modem with protocol support and NWR decoding are supported.

A DTMF encoder/decoder, a full complement of auxiliary ADCs and DACs and dual synthesised clock outputs are included in this low power PMR processor.
The device also has flexible powersaving modes and is available in 48-pin VQFN and LQFP packages.

Marine VHF

Features

Concurrent Audio, Signalling and Data Operations
Complete Audio Band Processing:
Selectable Audio Processing Order
Pre and De-emphasis
Selectable 2.55/3.0 kHz Filtering
Limiter
Programmable Voice-band Scrambler
In-band Signalling:
DTMF
NOAA NWR
DTMF and Audio Tone Encoder
more . . .
Applications:
Marine VHF Radio and/or Safety Systems
Packages:
CMX885L4 – 48-pin LQFP
CMX885Q3 – 48-pin VQFN
Supply Requirement:
3.3V power supply

Dual Auxiliary ADC with 4 Multiplexed Inputs
C-BUS Serial Interface to Host µController
4 x Auxiliary DACs
Dual Priogrammable System Clock Outputs
Tx Outputs for Single or Two-point Modulation
3 x Analogue Inputs
Digital Gain Adjustment
DSC/ATIS Modem for Marine Applications
Default 3.6864MHz Xtal/Clock
Low Power Operation with Flexible Powersave Modes
Compact VQFN and LQFP Packages

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What is neither red nor white but still at home in a wine glass? The answer to that strange riddle lies in the hands and unfathomable patience of one Szymon Klimek, craftsman of tiny model engines. Better yet, one of these micro-engines can actually run on solar power.

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It does sound like a dream, but the Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have finally made it come true! They have been successful to create an eco-friendly, silicon-air battery that can provide power to devices for literally thousands of hours before replacement.

Created from silicon and oxygen, the batteries are light in weight, and can work well in extremely dry conditions as well as in areas having high humidity levels. The new battery would become very useful for medical applications like hearing aids or diabetic pumps. It can also be used for several other purposes such as for microelectronics and sensors.

According to the lead researcher, Yair Ein-Eli, silicon-air batteries will be used like the ones already in use today. But by using silicon, which is a safe, non-toxic, and common material, it would be possible to create very lightweight batteries, having infinite shelf life and high energy capacity.

The silicon-air batteries will not have the built-in cathode that is present in the conventional batteries, resulting in reduced weight and cost. The silicon-air batteries make use of the oxygen in our atmosphere, which works as the cathode.

The best thing about this battery is that silicon and oxygen, both are present in abundant quantities on our planet, making this battery a breakthrough in clean energy manufacturing.

According to the researchers, silicon-air batteries will become much more powerful and rechargeable too in the coming years.

Moreover, in about ten years time, electric cars might also start using silicon batteries that will be recycled over and over again.

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