News tagged with power supply
Springs built from nanotubes could provide big power storage potential
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes -- tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon -- could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy, pound for pound, ...
When good computers go bad
Jul 09, 2009 |
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Personal computers are complex devices. We use them every day to do so many things and quite frankly, I don't know how I got along without one back in the olden days (that's the '70s in case you were wondering). Their complexity ...
Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.
'Smart' fridges stay cool by talking to each other
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- 'Smart' fridges that run on renewable electricity and are capable of negotiating the most energy efficient way to keep food cold have been developed by researchers from CSIRO’s Energy Transformed ...
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Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Research by TU Delft, Netherlands, proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind ...
Toshiba, Sharp mull 'solar power tie-up'
Mar 27, 2009 |
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Japanese consumer electronics giants Toshiba and Sharp are in talks on a possible tie-up in the solar power generation field, the companies said Friday.
Tilting at wind farms
Jan 07, 2009 |
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A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of ...
IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS
Feb 09, 2009 |
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At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave ...
Market value of vervet monkey falls if monoploy is broken
Sep 02, 2009 |
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A monkey that has acquired the sole power to hand out apples is generously rewarded with grooming sessions by the other monkeys in its group. But as soon as another monkey can hand out apples as well, the ...
A carbon-neutral way to power your home
Nov 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A super-efficient system that has the potential to power, heat and cool homes across the UK is being developed at Newcastle University.
Monkey economy works
Jul 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A monkey that has acquired the sole power to hand out apples is generously rewarded with grooming sessions by the other monkeys in its group. But as soon as another monkey can hand out apples ...
HP Introduces First Professional Workstation with Six-core AMD Opteron Processor
Jul 01, 2009 |
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HP today announced the integration of the highly anticipated Six-Core AMD Opteron 2400 Series processor into its family workstations.
Intelligent use of the Earth's heat
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding development of geothermal utilization: in recent years the annual power supply here doubled ...
PowerNap plan could save 75 percent of data center energy (Podcast)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Putting idle servers to sleep when they're not in use is part of University of Michigan researchers' plan to save up to 75 percent of the energy that power-hungry computer data centers consume.
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