Outdoor exposure in Q-SUN and QUV
This is a simple question, but unfortunately there is no simple answer. It is theoretically impossible to have a single "magic number" that you can multiply by weathering tester exposure hours to compute years of outdoor exposure. The problem is not that we just haven't developed the perfect weathering tester yet.
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Case Study: Outdoor Furniture
Q-Lab worked to develop a correlative accelerated and outdoor testing program for an American manufacturer of high-end outdoor furniture. This company’s products is commonly installed in public
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Policies put the EU on track to meet its 2020
European Union (EU) greenhouse gas emissions fell almost 2% between 2012 and 2013, putting the EU very close to its 2020 reduction target, according to new analysis from the European Environment
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Fuel efficiency improvements of new cars in
The fuel efficiency of new cars sold in the European Union (EU) continued to improve last year but at a slower rate. In fact, the 1.4 grammes (g) of carbon dioxide (CO2) per kilometre (km) reduction
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Researchers accidentally turn carbon dioxide
On Monday, researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee announced that they too had unintentionally discovered something incredible: a means of transforming carbon dioxide directly
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How Solar Energy Could Reduce Vehicle Idling
“So if you look up here at the screen, live here in this truck, we’re producing almost 60 amps worth of energy from the solar panels we have up on the roof” source:wfpl.org 2016.04.16.
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Energy storage facility to be built in
Georgetown’s electric utility is about to get a very large battery, essentially, with the construction of a 10-megawatt energy storage facility. source: bizjournals.com
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Photovoltaic Systems Installed Price Reductions
A period of rapidly falling installed prices began in 2009, prompted by a steep drop in global prices for PV modules. Since 2012, however, module prices have remained relatively flat, while
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Ski safety netting
Using a QUV accelerated weathering tester, a leader in the ski safety netting industry conducted laboratory UV exposure testing on two commonly used netting materials in the industry:
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