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22-01-2009 | Despite heavy opposition from environmentalists and scientists, brown coal continues to be the backbone of Germany’s energy supply. This wil...

22-01-2009 | The global market for solar cells is growing explosively, mainly thanks to lavish subsidy schemes. Is solar power the wave of the future – o...

22-01-2009 | Lithuania is pinning its energy hopes on keeping the nuclear plant at Ignalina open beyond 2009 and building a new nuclear power plant at th...

22-01-2009 | Croatia needs to re-assess and upgrade all its energy sources in order to safeguard future power supplies. Energy experts are lobbying for a...

1-01-2009 | Using one inverter, for example from a 74HC04 or a 4069, it is easy to construct a crystal oscillator. Unfortunately the current consumption...

1-12-2008 | Providing power to apparatus over network cables has always been usual practice for fixed-line telephones, and now the same capabilities are...

1-12-2008 | This year, for the first time, the efficiency of LEDs has overtaken that of fluorescent tubes. Power LEDs are thus now a realistic and energ...

1-12-2008 | Happy with the good response I got to two previous Retronics stories about little known valves like the Dekatron and E1T, I decided to dig o...

20-11-2008 | With its untapped coal reserves and landscape of mountains and rivers suited to generating hydropower, Bosnia Herzegovina could become a pow...

20-11-2008 | The interlinking of the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig and Powernext in Paris was another step in the consolidation of European energy...