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Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Engineers develop new power line de-icing system

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(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 ...





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Values predict attitudes toward nuclear power

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Concerns about climate change and energy independence have led to renewed calls for the resurgence of nuclear power. Therefore, it is important to understand the level of and bases for public attitudes, both supporting and ...


Nvidia's New GeForce GPU's

Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.


Sony Bravia 46" LCD HDTV

Energy Saving Televisions Have Come a Long Way

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- With consumers being more cost sensitive, TV manufactures are coming out with innovative ways to cut power consumption on their television sets. Even when a television set is turned off, they ...


AMD Athlon II

AMD Announces Eight New Athlon II Processors

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD announced today eight new, low cost, Athlon II processors to their Athlon II processor family.


Cattle respond to magnetic fields from power lines

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 9

(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 ...


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City of Newark first in nation using cars to power grid

Technology / Energy

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5

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.


Samsung Develops World's Highest Density DRAM Chip (Low-power 4Gb DDR3)

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has made a significant advancement in the push for higher volume memory chips by developing the world’s first four gigabit (Gb) DDR3 DRAM chip, using 50 nanometer process technology.


Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging

Smart Charger Controller simplifies electric vehicle recharging (w/Video)

Technology / Energy

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Electric vehicle owners can plug in their cars and forget about them, knowing they'll get the cheapest electricity available and won't crash the grid - using a new technology called the Smart Charger Controller. ...


Toshiba Develops World's Highest-Bandwidth, Highest Density Non-volatile RAM

Toshiba Develops World's Highest-Bandwidth, Highest Density Non-volatile RAM

Technology / Semiconductors

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Toshiba Corporation today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM -- Ferroelectric Random Access Memory -- that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new chip realizes storage of ...


'Painter' supercomputer comes to life at Louisiana Tech

'Painter' supercomputer comes to life at Louisiana Tech

Electronics / Hardware

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI) gained another 4.77 teraflops of computing power recently with the activation of the "Painter" supercomputer housed in the Data Replication Center at Louisiana ...



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