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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Research & Development - The role of energy
Solver Unio Ltd plans to submit a proposal for the call topic “Socioeconomic research on energy efficiency” within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme. Main objective of our proposal is the
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Lean IT soll es richten
Eine aktuelle Studie preist die sogenannte Lean IT als wirkungsvolle Reaktion auf die Wirtschaftskrise an. Diese verschlankte, kosteneinsparende IT-Strategie soll die Unternehmen gezielt auf den
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5 pitfalls to avoid when implementing SMED
SMED (Single-minute exchange of dies) is a lean manufacturing concept that has grown beyond the world of metal forming. It now stands for any lean exercise that attempts to reduce changeover time to
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Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Lean
Zum Ende meiner Expertenausbildung möchte ich allen interessierten Daimler-Blog Lesern gerne nochmals ein weiteren Einblick in die Ausbildung geben. Als ich den letzten Beitrag geschrieben hatte,
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Dr. Andrea SOMOGYI (PhD) Coherencies of energy-,
Nowadays it is an important aspect to create the security of energy supply. There are a very few regions in the world, which produce fossil energy, moreover these territories are mainly politically
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