Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Eco-Friendly Electric Buses Set to Transform Vienna Transit

The transportation authorities are now planning to operate two lines exclusively with eBuses by the middle of 2013. During the Skiing World Championships in…

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'Metasurfaces' to usher in new optical technologies

The metasurfaces could make possible “planar photonics” devices and optical switches small enough to be integrated into computer chips for information…

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GE Power Conversion to Supply one of the World’s Most Advanced Wind Turbine Test Facilities

GE's Power Conversion business (NYSE: GE) has signed a turnkey contract with the Lindoe Offshore Renewables Center (LORC), a Danish center for test of…

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Fraunhofer IKTS and Mayur REnergy: Advancing SOFC Systems for India

Main goal of the partnership is the development of a fuel cell product at local prices which will help to solve the electricity situation in India and other…

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Unlocking Green Energy: Fast Electrolysis for Renewables

Electrolysis can react to fluctuations in the supply generated by renewable energy in a matter of milliseconds – much faster than previous methods. The…

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New NIST Time Code Enhances Radio-Controlled Clocks

This new time broadcast protocol will not only improve the performance of new radio-controlled clocks and watches, but will encourage the development of new…

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NIST Quantum Refrigerator: Extreme Cooling for Research Needs

What's more, the prototype NIST refrigerator, which measures a few inches in outer dimensions, enables researchers to place any suitable object in the cooling…

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MARINET – Free access to Europe’s marine energy R&D facilities

This is a unique opportunity for engineers and researchers to avail of state-of-the-art interlinked infrastructures and associated expertise, courtesy of…

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Fraunhofer Unveils Cluster for Resource Efficiency in Energy

On February 20, 2013 the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft announced its new cluster of innovation “AdaM – Adaptive Production for Resource Efficiency in Energy and…

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Innovative amplifiers for high-spatial-resolution biomedical and environment monitoring system

This report is featured in the March 2013 issue of the Toyohashi Tech eNewsletter : http://www.tut.ac.jp/english/newsletter/index.htmlSmall instrumentation…

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Faster Biomass Analysis: NREL’s High-Throughput Tool

NREL's new High-Throughput Analytical Pyrolysis tool (HTAP) can thoroughly analyze hundreds of biomass samples a day and give an early look at the genotypes…

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New Insights in Analytical Theory to Enhance Lithium-Ion Batteries

The dendrites are lithium deposits that form on electrode surfaces and may continue to grow until they cause an internal short circuit, which results in…

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MIT researchers develop solar-to-fuel roadmap for crystalline silicon

Bringing the concept of an “artificial leaf” closer to reality, a team of researchers at MIT has published a detailed analysis of all the factors that could…

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New Spectroscopic Technique Enhances Optical Device Performance

A multi-university research team has used a new spectroscopic method to gain a key insight into how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin…

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Improving Power Grid Synchronicity for Enhanced Preventive Care

President Obama in this year's State of the Union address talked about the future of energy and mentioned “self-healing power grids” — a grid that is able to…

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New Fabrication Technique Advances Solar Energy Technology

For years, scientists have studied the potential benefits of a new branch of solar energy technology that relies on incredibly small nanosized antenna arrays…

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