News tagged with resistance cable
Engineers develop new power line de-icing system
(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 ...
Jan 07, 2009 |
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Engineers find inspiration for new materials in Piranha-proof armor
(PhysOrg.com) -- It’s a matchup worthy of a late-night cable movie: put a school of starving piranha and a 300-pound fish together, and who comes out the winner?
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Model analyzes shape-memory alloys for use in earthquake-resistant structures
Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are analyzing shape-memory alloys for their potential ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Unusual 'collapsing' iron superconductor sets record for its class
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland has found an iron-based superconductor that operates at the highest known temperature for a material ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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World's longest superconductor cable
The "AmpaCity" project has been kicked off: The RWE Group and its partners are just about to replace a 1-kilometre-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Unexpected ice-formation mechanism
(PhysOrg.com) -- Extremely hydrophobic materials cause water to roll right off objects that have been coated with them. Up to now, it was assumed that aircraft or wind turbines coated in such a way did not ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Developing power-over-fiber communications cable: When total isolation is a good thing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes total electrical isolation is a good thing — and that’s the idea behind a power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable being developed by engineers at Sandia National Laboratories.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Superconducting current limiter guarantees electricity supply of the Boxberg power plant
For the first time, a superconducting current limiter based on YBCO strip conductors has now been installed at a power plant. At the Boxberg power plant of Vattenfall, the current limiter protects the grid ...
Jan 13, 2012 |
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High-tech gadgets offer plenty for gifts
Every year gadgets and their accessories are the hot gifts to give and get.
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Dec 08, 2011 |
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Bacterial attachment mimics the just-in-time industrial delivery model
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the human world of manufacturing, many companies are now applying an on-demand, just-in-time strategy to conserve resources, reduce costs and promote production of goods precisely when ...
Nov 30, 2011 |
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The green look for EV charging stations
The network of electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations in Germany is still relatively sparse, but their number is growing rapidly. The majority of roadside charging points take the form of steel-clad pillars. ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 05, 2011 |
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