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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 ...


Important Tests for Lunar Habitat Power System Began

Important Tests for Lunar Habitat Power System Began

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA today begins testing elements of a power system that is a potential candidate to provide the energy needed to support a human outpost on the moon.


Notional Lunar Fission Surface Power System

NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA astronauts will need power sources when they return to the moon and establish a lunar outpost. NASA engineers are exploring the possibility of nuclear fission to provide the necessary ...





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Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Toshiba to complete construction of carbon capture pilot plant

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has completed construction of a pilot plant to support development and validation of its carbon capture technology. Final commissioning testing prior to plant operation ...


Early warning system could keep lights on

Early warning system could keep lights on

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester are developing 'early warning systems' that could prevent power blackouts in the UK.


ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

ASUS Unveils First TUF Series Motherboard

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2

ASUS today unveiled the first motherboard in its newly-developed "TUF" (The Ultimate Force) Series, the SABERTOOTH 55i.


Sony develops highly efficient wireless power transfer system based on magnetic resonance

Sony develops highly efficient wireless power transfer system based on magnetic resonance

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 7

Sony Corp. today announced the development of a highly efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates the use of power cables from electronic products such as television sets. Using this system, ...


Israelis bring green power to West Bank village (AP)

Israelis bring green power to West Bank village

Technology / Energy

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(AP) -- Residents of a West Bank village with no electricity have been helped out of the darkness by unlikely benefactors - a group of Israelis who installed solar panels and wind turbines to illuminate the ...


Lehigh receives grant to reduce cost of carbon capture at coal-fired power plants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Lehigh University's Energy Research Center (ERC) has been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop methods of recovering and reusing the heat that would be generated by the carbon-dioxide (CO2) compressio ...


Smartphone app illuminates power consumption

Smartphone app illuminates power consumption

Technology / Software

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors ...


Elpida Unveils Industry's First 2-Gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM

Technology / Semiconductors

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed the industry's first 2-gigabit DDR2 Mobile RAM.


'Fingerprinting' RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique ...


Barack Obama speaks after touring the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center

Obama unveils historic power grid reform

Technology / Energy

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.



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