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New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter

New Nanotube Coating Enables Novel Laser Power Meter

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. military can now calibrate high-power laser systems, such as those intended to defuse unexploded mines, more quickly and easily thanks to a novel nanotube-coated power measurement ...


Benefits of a 'smart' power grid in debated

Technology / Energy

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

When Kevin Linn of Coral Springs, Fla., received a special power meter last October, he was able to check his usage day by day and hour by hour via the Internet. He found spikes in midday when no one was home -- the water ...





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Workers at the Statkraft Osmotic power plant prototype in Tofte

Harnessing the power of salt, Norway tries osmotic power

Technology / Energy

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

After wind, sun, currents and tides, a company is preparing to make clean electricity by harnessing another natural phenomenon, the energy-unleashing encounter of freshwater and seawater.


Wind + water = untapped energy: An abundance of power exists above Earth's oceans, study finds

Wind + water = untapped energy: An abundance of power exists above Earth's oceans, study finds

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (58) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind energy over the planet's oceans is a vastly underutilized renewable resource, according to UC Irvine researchers.


Is the sky the limit for wind power?

Technology / Energy

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 10

In the future, will wind power tapped by high-flying kites light up New York? A new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution and California State University identifies New York as a prime location for exploiting high-altitude ...


IBM launches water-management services operation (AP)

IBM launches water-management services operation

Technology / Business

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water.


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Smart Grid Technology: Vulnerable To Hackers

Technology / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(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.


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Kites could provide electricity for 100,000 homes

Technology / Energy

created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (111) | comments 46

High-flying kites tethered to generators could supply as much as 100 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 100,000 homes, according to researchers from the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. ...


Renewable energy wrecks environment, scientist claims

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 24, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (46) | comments 3

Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains that b ...


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'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets

Technology / Energy

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (34) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an "inlet outlet" could allow homeowners to put power ...


The electric car: a power bank

Technology / Energy

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can you imagine an electric car that stores power and, depending on variable utility rates, returns it to the power grid over the course of a day? Fraunhofer researchers are exploring this visionary idea. ...


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Nine institutions officially sign agreement for 25-meter Giant Magellan Telescope

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) Corporation is pleased to announce that nine astronomical research organizations from three continents have signed the Founders' Agreement to construct and operate the 25-meter ...



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