Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Body Electric: Advancing Low-Cost Implantable Electronics

New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Fuel Cells Power Parked Trucks With Sustainable Energy

Truck cabins provide both the workplace and home for drivers for days and even weeks. The communications technology, lighting and air conditioning in trucks…

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Firefighting Robot Paints

A sophisticated on-board software system takes the thermal data recorded by the robot’s small infrared camera and maps it onto a 3D scene constructed from the…

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Power Grid Getting Smarter with Big Battery in Salem

Portland General Electric’s 5-megawatt, lithium-ion energy storage system was shared with the public today at the utility’s Salem Smart Power Center in South…

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Transportation Fuels From Woody Biomass Promising Way to Reduce Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency's standard for emissions from wood basedtransportation fuels requires a 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions…

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Korean researchers demonstrate a new class of transparent, stretchable electrodes

UNIST scientists have combined graphene with silver nanowires to form a thin, transparent and stretchable electrode which overcome the weaknesses of each…

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Cradle Transforms iPhone Into Handheld Biosensor Device

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a cradle and app for the iPhone that uses the phone’s built-in camera and processing…

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Not Just Blowing in the Wind: Compressing Air for Renewable Energy Storage

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Bonneville Power Administration identified two unique methods for this…

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Strategies for Achieving Net-Zero Energy Homes Unveiled

This disparity in useful energy data is just one of several information gaps that must be bridged as the United States transitions towards residences that…

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Iowa State Engineers Design, Test Taller, High-Strength Concrete Towers for Wind Turbines

Schmitz, an Iowa State graduate student of civil, construction and environmental engineering, and Sri Sritharan, Iowa State’s Wilson Engineering Professor and…

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Micromachining: Inclinations sounded out

Echolocation is a powerful technique that uses sound or ultrasound waves to locate objects and surfaces. Ships and submarines, for example, use it to avoid…

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Terahertz technology: Seeing more with less

Terahertz technology is an emerging field that promises to improve a host of useful applications, ranging from passenger scanning at airports to huge digital…

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New Technique Enhances Quality Control for Lithium-Ion Batteries

The electrodes, called anodes and cathodes, are the building blocks of powerful battery arrays like those used in electric and hybrid vehicles. They are copper…

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Omicron extends functionality of the „LuxX“ diode laser series

Under the name “LuxX+” the laser specialist Omicron presents a new diode laser series, with which the developing team is setting new trends in laser technology.

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Omicron Unveils BrixX Ps: Two-In-One Diode Laser Innovation

With the innovative laser series “BrixX ps” Omicron for the first time presents universal diode lasers, which can be pulsed in the picosecond range, as well as…

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NREL Highlights Value of Concentrating Solar Power Innovation

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have quantified the significant value that concentrating solar…

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