News tagged with power outage


Severe Space Weather

Severe Space Weather

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Did you know a solar flare can make your toilet stop working?


Researchers can predict hurricane-related power outages

Researchers can predict hurricane-related power outages (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using data from Hurricane Katrina and four other destructive storms, researchers from Johns Hopkins and Texas A&M universities say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages ...





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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.


Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Spallation Neutron Source sees first target replacement

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Having outlasted all expectations of its service life, the original mercury target of the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS), the Department of Energy Office of Science's record-setting neutron science facility ...


Saving energy and the environment with Flywheels

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

ECE researcher, Dr. Mark Flynn's high-speed flywheel motor controller is reducing fuel consumption and harmful emissions at ports throughout the world. Flynn's design has been incorporated into energy storage systems used ...


Samsung Introducing High-Speed, High-Capacity 'Green' SSD for Enterprise Market

Electronics / Hardware

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today at the Storage Visions 2009 Conference here that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content ...


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Intel designs rugged PC for rural India

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created Mar 29, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Intel is introducing a new personal computer designed to meet the demands of India's often-rugged countryside.


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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.


T-Mobile says phone service outage resolved (Update)

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Wireless provider T-Mobile USA Inc. says it has cleared up service problems that were interfering with calls and text messaging for about 5 percent of its customers.


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Sidekick's lost data gone for good

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sidekick users have been without some of their services for days, and have just been told by the company, T-Mobile, that for some users their data may be lost forever due to a server error ...


Combination power-heat system created

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created Aug 12, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

U.S. grocery stores, schools, hotels and hospitals are likely candidates for a high-efficiency system that provides heating, cooling and electric power.


Power lines may offer Internet connections

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created Aug 15, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

There are three basic on-ramps to the broadband highway: cable telephone line or satellite -- but electric companies may soon join the fray.



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