Saddled with more than $11 billion in debt and facing at least one investigation by federal officials plus a lawsuit from its own subsidiary, solar giant SunEdison is lurching toward bankruptcy. The shares of other leading solar providers, including SolarCity and Sunrun, have lost more than half their value in the last four months as investors lose confidence in the no-money-down, 20-year-lease model that has fueled the explosive growth of the rooftop solar market in the last few years.
GE Global Research is testing a desk-size turbine that could power a small town of about 10,000 homes. The unit is driven by “supercritical carbon dioxide,” which is in a state that at very high pressure and up to 700 °C exists as neither a liquid nor a gas. After the carbon dioxide passes through the turbine, it's cooled and then repressurized before returning for another pass.
More and more women are finding it difficult to get pregnant, with mounting evidence suggesting chemicals used in plasticisers and pesticides are responsible. The consequences are estimated to cost the EU €1.4 billion per year. EurActiv Germany reports.
The way drugs are made is dangerously outdated. While many industries have gotten much more efficient at manufacturing, pharmaceutical companies rely on an old-fashioned approach that is slow, inflexible, and prone to breakdowns. A new refrigerator-sized apparatus that can take in a set of ingredients and quickly produce four common pharmaceuticals is the most advanced demonstration yet of a potential new strategy for drug making that is more flexible, efficient, and reliable. Portable drug-making technology like it could be used to more rapidly respond to local drug shortages or spikes in demand, such as in an outbreak.
La compañía india Tata Steel Ltd. acordó vender su división europea de productos largos de acero, ubicada principalmente en Reino Unido, a la firma de inversión familiar británica Greybull Capital.
Como parte del acuerdo, Greybull Capital prepara una paquete de inversión y de financiación de 400 millones de libras (US$567 millones) para reactivar el negocio, que incluye una planta siderúrgica en Scunthorpe, dos plantas en Teesside, un taller de ingeniería en Workington y una planta en Hayange, Francia.
Está previsto que el pacto se complete en ocho semanas y está sujeto a la aprobación reguladora.
Maiatzaren 4an hasita, eta lau asteazkenetan jarraian, 'Kirol-hezitzailea eta kulturartekotasuna' ikastaroa eskainiko du Humanitate eta Hezkuntza Zientzien Fakultateak. Ikastaroa dago zuzenduta kirol zein hezkuntza esparruko profesionalentzat, eta apirilaren 29ra arte dago aukera izena emateko.
Ikastaroaren helburua da erantzutea kirol eta hezkuntzan jarduten dute profesionalek askotan dituzte zalantzak: zeintzuk dira kontzeptu gakoak kirol-hezitzailean? Zer hartu behar da kontuan testuinguru kultur anitzetan? Zein irizpide nagusi eduki behar dira kontuan esku-hartzean?
El Departamento de Innovación y Tecnología de MONDRAGON, en colaboración con MIK, se complace presentarte la guía de exclusivo uso interno, “M4FUTURE–IA – Modelo Corporativo para la Innovación Abierta”
Enmarcada dentro del modelo de innovación corporativo, M4FUTURE-IA estructura la secuencia de pasos y procesos a poner en marcha en las organizaciones que deseen implantar mecanismos de Innovación Abierta.
MONDRAGONen Berrikuntza eta Teknologia Departamentuak, MIKekin elkarlanean jardunez, atsegin handiz aurkezten dizu barne erabilerarako soilik eginiko gida den “M4FUTURE-BI – Berrikuntza Irekirako Eredu Korporatiboa”
Berrikuntzako eredu korporatiboan kokaturik, Berrikuntza Irekiaren mekanismoak ezarri nahi dituzten erakundeetan eman beharreko urratsak eta prozesuak egituratzen ditu M4FUTURE-BI gidak.
EROSKI y Artzai-Gazta han firmado un acuerdo por el que la cooperativa se convierte en colaborador principal de la 28ª edición del World Cheese Awards que, dentro del International Cheese Festival, se celebrará en Donostia-San Sebastián en noviembre y de la que la asociación de pastores-elaboradores de queso de oveja latxa es co-organizadora en esta edición en colaboración con los creadores del certamen Guild of the Fine Food, principal asociación inglesa de productos gourmet y referente internacional.
No one illustrates the promise of cell therapy better than a little girl named Emily Whitehead. She was just 5 years old when she got sick with a common type of childhood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Roughly 98 percent of children go into remission within weeks of treatment, but Emily relapsed repeatedly despite several rounds of chemotherapy.