News tagged with horizontal axis
Picosecond Oscilloscope
An oscilloscope is a device for displaying signals that are too fast to be seen by the human eye. Typically the signal consists of a voltage level that changes quickly moment by moment (over millisecond to nanosecond timescales). ...
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Wind experts advise on revolutionary wind-powered skyscraper
The infamous winds that gust through downtown San Francisco streets, overturning kiosks and sometimes toppling pedestrians, will help to power a revolutionary skyscraper set to open next fall -- and could ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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AUVs: From idea to implementation
Since the 1970s, when early autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) were developed at MIT, Institute scientists have tackled various barriers to robots that can travel autonomously in the deep ocean. This fo ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Light vortex: Circularly polarized luminescence from a stirred and gelled solution of dye
(PhysOrg.com) -- Simple stirring can influence light, according to a report presented in the journal Angewandte Chemie by Kunihiko Okano and co-workers. Dye molecules locked in a gel send out “helical” ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Wind-turbine placement produces tenfold power increase, researchers say
(PhysOrg.com) -- The power output of wind farms can be increased by an order of magnitude -- at least tenfold -- simply by optimizing the placement of turbines on a given plot of land, say researchers at the ...
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Jul 13, 2011 |
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New omni-directional wind turbine can capture wind energy on building rooftops
(PhysOrg.com) -- Katru Eco-Energy, headed by founder and inventor, Varan Sureshan, has developed a new kind of wind turbine meant to capture the winds that fly in all directions atop big buildings, and unlike ...
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May 16, 2011 |
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ORNL rifle sighting system uses sensors to score bull's-eye
Military and police marksmen could see their rifle sights catch up with the 21st century with a fiber-optic laser-based sensor system that automatically corrects for even tiny barrel disruptions.
Apr 18, 2011 |
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Vertiwind: Floating wind turbine project launched
(PhysOrg.com) -- Technip, a French-based oil and gas engineering company, and Nenuphar, a wind-power startup, announced that they will soon launch Vertiwind, a newly designed wind turbine.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 07, 2011 |
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Inside a snowstorm: Scientists obtain close-up look at Old Man Winter
In this winter of heavy snows--with more on the way this week--nature's bull's-eye might be Oswego, N.Y., and the nearby Tug Hill Plateau.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Harnessing tidal energy
A new company, Kepler Energy Limited, has been formed to develop a tidal turbine which has the potential to harness tidal energy more efficiently and cheaply, using a device which is simpler, more robust and ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 26, 2010 |
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Flying fish glide as well as birds
How well do flying fish fly? This is the question that puzzled Haecheon Choi from Seoul National University, Korea. Measuring aerodynamic forces on dried darkedged-wing flying fish in a wind tunnel, Choi and ...
Sep 10, 2010 |
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