News tagged with power line
With changes, the grid can take it
Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Power lines a major risk for migratory birds
When flamingos, storks, pelicans and other migratory birds undertake their long seasonal flights, they risk their lives winging their way through the endless power grids that cover the world.
Nov 26, 2011 |
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'Third World' power outages plague US homes, firms
The United States is the biggest economy in the world, but all it takes to put the lights out here is some snow, or wind, or rain, or squirrels, even a prison break-out.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 06, 2011 |
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Finding reserves on the electrical grid
The weather determines how much energy wind turbine systems provide. The same applies to power line capacity. On cold and stormy days, this capacity is higher than on days with no wind and high mid-summer ...
May 11, 2011 |
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Power line blamed for bird kill in Louisiana
(AP) -- It isn't easy being a blackbird in the South.
Jan 04, 2011 |
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Reducing faults created by vegetation contact on utility lines
It’s the last play of the big game, only seconds left and the quarterback throws toward the end zone and … blackness.
Nov 19, 2010 |
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Superhighway for wind power proposed for Mid-Atlantic Coast
Investors on Oct. 12 proposed to build an underwater electricity superhighway that would carry wind power generated off the Mid-Atlantic Coast to land.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University engineers are developing new and improved poles to carry electricity across the countryside. They say the new structures -- which can bend and deflect an extreme load ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Physicists Demystify Utility of Power Factor Correction Devices
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've seen an Internet ad for capacitor-type power factor correction devices, you might be led to believe that using one can save you money on your residential electricity bill. However, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 16, 2009 |
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Television control for the remote
(PhysOrg.com) -- A cheap way to deliver interactive communications to remote communities has been successfully tested in Brazil and Italy.
Dec 08, 2009 |
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For some, prominent power lines dim enthusiasm for green power
In the summer heat, Rockney Compton's spring-fed koi pond doubles as a swimming hole for his three kids, and in the spring it is a water bowl for his dogs.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 19, 2009 |
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Warning: Sunspot cycle beginning to rise
(AP) -- When the sun sneezes it's Earth that gets sick. It's time for the sun to move into a busier period for sunspots, and while forecasters expect a relatively mild outbreak by historical standards, one ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 08, 2009 |
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Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines
(AP) -- High-voltage power lines mess with animal magnetism. Researchers, who reported last year that most cows and deer tend to orient themselves in a north-south alignment, have now found that power lines can disorient ...
Mar 16, 2009 |
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Engineers develop new power line de-icing system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth engineering professor and entrepreneur Victor Petrenko—along with his colleagues at Dartmouth and at Ice Engineering LLC in Lebanon, N.H.—have invented a way to cheaply and effectively ...
Jan 07, 2009 |
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