Hydrogen as a future energy carrier can be used for grid power peak shaving and valley filling and has thus attracted widespread attention. However, how to provide high-temperature heat for water electrolysis is an urgent challenge that needs to be overcome. This paper adopts two gas-solid...

Selenium antimony sulfide (Sb2(S,Se)3) is an attractive photovoltaic absorber material owing to its suitable band gap, large absorption coefficient, and photoelectric properties. Chemical bath–deposited cadmium sulfide (CBD-CdS) is the most widely used buffer layer material for Sb2(S,Se)3...

Australia by using the data from the newly finished National Survey of Recreational Fishing (2000/2001)(NSRF). There are a number of findings. 1. Socio-economic characteristics of anglers didn’t affect their catch of high quality fish (prize fish, reef fish or key-sport fish) as much as their...

China's rapid growth in recent years has been matched by large increases in exports and foreign direct investment (FDI). However, within China considerable regional disparities in FDI flows exist. In this paper we use detailed province level data for China to examine the determinants of...

In this paper we investigate the relationship between economic growth and industrial pollution emissions in China using data for 112 major cities between 2001 and 2004. Using disaggregated data we separate FDI inflows from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan from those of other foreign economies. We...

Unlike the prediction of a frictionless open economy model, long-term average savings and investment rates are highly correlated across countries-a puzzle first identified by Feldstein and Horioka (1980). We quantitatively investigate the impact of two types of financial frictions on this...

Though China is well along in restructuring its power markets, it still has some way to travel before economic considerations receive adequate weight in transmission planning decisions. Adoption of more sophisticated tools such as multi-agent modeling will help China continue in its progress in...

A significant enhancement in light extraction from colloidal ZnO QD films was observed on an addition of a layer of two-dimensional photonic crystal (2D-PC) structure. The PCs with a rectangular-lattice air-hole array pattern with the period of 1.4 μm and the hole-size of 400 nm were fabricated...