News tagged with grid
Brazil blackouts result of cyber hacking: report
Nov 07, 2009 |
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Massive power outages in Brazil in 2005 and 2007 that impacted millions were caused by cyber hackers attacking control systems, the US television network CBS said Sunday.
New 'smart' electrical meters raise privacy issues
Nov 06, 2009 |
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The new "smart meters" utilities are installing in homes around the world to reduce energy use raise fresh privacy issues because of the wealth of information about consumer habits they reveal, experts said ...
Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers find
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Lost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the ...
Funding A Greener Grid: How Obama plans to spend billions on modernizing the U.S. electrical network
Oct 29, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama announced on Tuesday that his administration plans to spend $3.4 billion on producing a safer, more efficient electrical grid. Obama underscored the need to find clean forms of energ ...
Obama unveils historic power grid reform
Oct 27, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.
Setting sail in an ecological 'Earthship'
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Could sustainable architecture address pollution, climate change and resource depletion by helping us build self-sufficient, off-grid, housing from "waste", including vehicle tires and metal drinks containers? That's the ...
Israelis bring green power to West Bank village
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors - a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the ...
AES wind farm kicks off in Bulgaria
Oct 06, 2009 |
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AES Geo Energy, a Bulgarian unit of US energy giant AES Corporation, launched on Tuesday the largest 156-megawatt wind farm in Bulgaria, the company said.
Theory: Stone Age People had Sophisticated Navigation Networks
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory based on studies of locations of large landmarks in Britain, such as stone structures, hill forts and earthworks, suggests they were part of a grid used for navigation around ...
Electric cars star at Frankfurt fair
Sep 16, 2009 |
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The Frankfurt auto show hummed with talk of electric vehicles Wednesday but experts predict cars will roll on a variety of power sources for a while.
House passes funding for green vehicle research
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Targeting more federal money to support the auto industry, the House on Wednesday approved an expansion of government-led research into making cars and trucks more fuel-efficient.
How do you say grid computing in Spanish?
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Encouraged by the success of grid computing in Europe, scientists there set out to help their Latin American colleagues develop grid capability. The result today is a thriving trans-Atlantic collaboration. ...
Belief, how European e-Infrastructure makes a difference (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Europe has turned its early belief and investment in the potential of e-Infrastructures and virtual research into a position of great strength, especially in e-Science and grid technology, such as the GÉANT network ...
Solar Roadways Awarded DOT Contract to Pave Roads with Solar Cells
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first step toward turning highways into energy-generating solar panels, the Sagle, Idaho-based startup Solar Roadways has recently received a $100,000 grant from the US Department of ...
Exploring Ways to Expand Power Grid
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and ...
