Uganda Unveils its First Solar-powered Bus 乌干达首次推出太阳能汽车 KAMPALA A solar-powered bus described by its Ugandan makers as the first in Africa has made its public debut. Kiira Motors' electric bus was displayed recently at a stadi

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2016年(七月)

BRUSSELS - The European Union (EU) on Wednesday imposed tariffs of up to 42.1 percent on solar glass imports from China, which would come into force Thursday. Chinese manufacturers had been allegedly selling the product, which is used for producing s

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AS IT IS 2013-09-04 India Expands Solar Power 印度大力发展太阳能发电 Welcome to As It Is, a daily show from VOA Learning English. Im Christopher Cruise. Today, we report on how India has become an important market for developers of solar e

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珍妮班娜斯向发明家传达了这样一个信息:设法解决设计上的问题时先观察自然界。你会在自然界中找到防水、航空力学、太阳能及众多设计灵感。在此,她向我们展示众多灵感取自自然,令

发表于:2019-01-05 / 阅读(116) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:生态谜云

在印度的拉贾斯坦邦,有一所非常特别的学校。这学校主要教育农村成年人(其中很多是文盲),使他们成为他们自己村里的太阳能工程师,艺术家,牙医和医生。这所学校就叫做赤脚大学。

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Donald Trump is known to be a highly pragmatic get it done leader. As president-elect he wants to keep the promises to the constituencies that elected him while healing the wounds of a bitterly divisive campaign. Is there then a way he can create job

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Rwanda Opens Biggest Solar Power Plant in East Africa 卢旺达开办东非最大的太阳能发电厂 The biggest solar power factory, or plant, in East Africa recently opened in Rwanda. Solar power is produced from sun light. The plant is in Agahoz

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(83) / 评论(0) 分类 2014年VOA慢速英语(九)月

AS IT IS 2015-07-07 Solar-Powered Plane Lands in Hawaii after Crossing the Pacific 太阳能飞机穿越大西洋后着陆夏威夷 A plane that uses only solar power landed on the island of Oahu, Hawaii on Friday after being flown across the Pacific

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Scientists Testing Space Propulsion by Light 科学家测试太阳能动力 Can the sun provide power for a spaceship to travel to the edge of our solar system? The answer may come from a small satellite. A Delta V rocket carried the satellite into s

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Paintable Solar Cells May Replace Silicon-Based Devices 可喷涂太阳能电池可能取代硅基电池板 Solar panels are manufactured in factories. Some of the devices are made with cadmium chloride, a substance shown to be harmful to human healt

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Solar energy is the key to our future. If we do not use it, our planet will not survive. We do not have enough resources on Earth to supply our energy needs. We are slowly using solar energy more. Most places you go in the world today you can see sol

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建筑师怎样才能向大自然学习建立一个持续的美丽新世界?在伦敦TEDSalon中, 迈克尔波林描述了三种大自然可能改变社会的特性:提高资源使用效率,封闭式循环和太阳能的使用。

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使用太阳能和风能这样的可再生能源的关键点是什么呢? 储存这样我们在太阳落山或者无风的时候仍可以拥有并使用能量.在这个充满启发性的公开演讲中,Donald Sadoway为我们展示了用来储存可再

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AS IT IS 2016-06-24 Solar-Powered Airplane Lands in Spain 太阳能飞机飞越大西洋后在西班牙降落 An airplane powered totally by the sun landed in Seville, Spain early Thursday after completing a 71-hour flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

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建筑师怎样才能向大自然学习建立一个持续的美丽新世界?在伦敦TEDSalon中, 迈克尔波林描述了三种大自然可能改变社会的特性:提高资源使用效率,封闭式循环和太阳能的使用。

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲视频集

There has been chaos in the US congress where Democratic party politicians have been staging a sitting to demand tighter gun laws. They occupied the floor of the House of Representatives taking in sleeping bags and pillows as their protests continued

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

PV solar technology is more complex. When sunlight hits a PV cell, electrons in the cell are knocked out of their orbits. Electric fields channel the electrons in a current used to generate electricity。 Unlike thermal solar panels, PV technology is

发表于:2019-02-15 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语时差8,16

Did you know that enough sunlight falls on the earths surface every minute to provide energy for the entire world? The trick, though, is turning sunlight into power we can use for things like heating water and making electricity. And there are two ty

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本期内容: Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane, completed the longest, transpacific leg of its round-the-world journey. The 72-metre-wide craft, powered by 17,000 photovoltaic cells on its wings and fuselage, has broken several solo- and long-f

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Instead of burning coal, oil, or biomass to heat things up, scientists have found that its possible to use solar energy. For example, some experimental facilities use thousands of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a large plate on a tower, heating it

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