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A supermassive black hole is quite simply gravity gone mad. An object of such concentrated matter its gravitational pull is insatiable. Nothing can escape it, not even light itself. Anything that gets

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Matthew: I heard that you work at an renewable energy company. Can you tell me what kind of company it is? Kat: My company is a wind energy company but there's a lot of other options. Matthew: What are the other options and what are the pros and cons

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When the wind picks up at the foot of the Rockies, there are those who believe they can hear the future. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, making alternative power sources competitive with fossil fuels has been a mission since the energy

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American inventor John Goodenough first started working on battery technology more than 40 years ago. Goodenough actually co-invented lithium-ion batteries in 1980. This eventually led to a revolution in the electronics industry because those devices

Do You Know Which Way the Wind Blows?

Now, the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories, our weekly show about common expressions in American English. Wind is a powerful force in nature. Wind energy is partly responsible for great waves in the world's oceans. Winds can help c

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Bladeless Wind Generator Safe for Birds

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2006年VOA标准英语-Wind Power Grows as Alternative US Energy

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 01 March 2006 Windmills in California Windmills are sprouting across the United States, as Americans search for non-polluting alternative energy sources. The West Coast

军事研究是如何走进日常生活的?

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充电几秒钟通话一星期 美大学研发超级电容电池

Scientists from the University of Central Florida (UCF) have created a supercapacitor battery prototype that works like new even after being recharged 30,000 times. 来自中佛罗里达大学（UCF）的科学家已经创造了一个超级电容电池

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By Paul Sisco Washington 21 February 2008 With oil prices on the rise, the U.S. wind energy industry grew at record levels in 2007 and an industry group says it expects similar growth this year. In today's searching for solutions report, Paul Sisco l

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matter 物质 energy 能 vacuum 真空 liquid 液体 fluid 流体 solid 固体 body 物体 mass 质量 weight 重量 density 密度 specific gravity 比重 gravity 重力 velocity 速度 kinetic energy

Google increases investment in clean energy

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TED演讲:宇宙的灭亡(2)

This dark energy doesn't behave like any other substance we know at all and acts more like antigravity force. 这种暗能量的性质与我们所熟知的其他物质完全不同，它更像是反重力。 We say that it has a gravitational pressure

TED演讲:宇宙的灭亡(1)

Looking up at the night sky, we are amazed by how it seems to go on forever. 仰望夜空，我们为它的永无止境而感到惊讶。 But what will the sky look like billions of years from now? 然而数十亿年前的天空又会是什么样子呢

新西兰英语 546 Wind Power plan cancelled

Meridian Energy has decided not to go ahead with their plan to put 176 wind turbines in Central Otago. Local people set up a protest group. This group has spent a lot of time and money fighting to stop Meridian Energy for the last six years. In 2009,

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After failing in Beijing's license plate lottery system for some three years, Qin Xiaofei finally made his decision in January to buy a battery-driven car to chauffeur his wife who has recently become pregnant. But, he says, one of the biggest concer