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Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems and test have shown that a hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout.
Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility ...
Saving energy and the environment with Flywheels
Apr 07, 2009 |
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ECE researcher, Dr. Mark Flynn's high-speed flywheel motor controller is reducing fuel consumption and harmful emissions at ports throughout the world. Flynn's design has been incorporated into energy storage systems used ...
Samsung Introducing High-Speed, High-Capacity 'Green' SSD for Enterprise Market
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Samsung Electronics announced today at the Storage Visions 2009 Conference here that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content ...
Intel designs rugged PC for rural India
Mar 29, 2006 |
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Intel is introducing a new personal computer designed to meet the demands of India's often-rugged countryside.
City of Newark first in nation using cars to power grid
Jan 21, 2009 |
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This month, the City of Newark, Delaware became the first electric utility in the US to use a car to store and provide power for the local electric grid.
Severe Space Weather
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Did you know a solar flare can make your toilet stop working?
Sidekick's lost data gone for good
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sidekick users have been without some of their services for days, and have just been told by the company, T-Mobile, that for some users their data may be lost forever due to a server error ...
Combination power-heat system created
Aug 12, 2005 |
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U.S. grocery stores, schools, hotels and hospitals are likely candidates for a high-efficiency system that provides heating, cooling and electric power.
Researchers can predict hurricane-related power outages (w/ Video)
Oct 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Texas A&M universities say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages ...
Power lines may offer Internet connections
Aug 15, 2005 |
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There are three basic on-ramps to the broadband highway: cable telephone line or satellite -- but electric companies may soon join the fray.
Hacker attack shuts down Twitter, Facebook also slows down (Update 2)
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers on Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.
IBM Unveils New Software to Reduce Data Center Complexity
Jun 18, 2007 |
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IBM today announced a new release of its premier virtualization management software that adds powerful new capabilities for simplifying the management of virtual and physical systems across multiple platforms. In addition, ...
U.S. Army Exhibits Successful Fuel Cell
Oct 07, 2005 |
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Hawaii's first successful fuel cell is buzzing along at the historic Schofield Barracks Fire Station. Installed by Logan Energy under a U.S. Army Corps of Engineer Construction Engineering Research Laboratory demonstration ...
Work with power grids leads to cell biology discovery
Biology /
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Gene therapy, in which a working gene is inserted into a cell to replace a faulty or absent gene, is a promising experimental technique for the prevention and treatment of disease.
