Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sunlight-Powered Air Conditioning: A Greener Cooling Solution

Air conditioning systems contribute a lot to CO2 emissions in these hot regions. About 60 percent of the electricity consumed in Indian office buildings on…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Harnessing Sunlight: Innovative Sollectors for Rooftops

The latest issue of the research magazine “Pictures of the Future” features a report on how this is to be achieved. Sunlight is collected by “sollectors” on…

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Siemens Innovates Energy Storage with Hydrogen Technology

The system is based on PEM (proton exchange membrane) technology, in which electricity decomposes water into hydrogen and oxygen. If the electrolysis uses…

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Cooler, Smaller, Fuel Cells Goal of UIC Researchers

While high hurdles stand before the cheap manufacturing of fuel cells, engineers and scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and nearby Argonne…

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Affordable Shift Away From Nuclear Power: A Complex Challenge

An exit before 2020, however, could push up emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the short term. Yet security of supply is the crucial point. This security…

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Fraunhofer IWES Launches New Facility for XXL Rotor Blade Testing

The construction work took one and half years and the new 20,000 square meter facility doubles the existing capacity for testing complete rotor blades. A…

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Data storage: Keeping the heat on

The perfect data storage solution should offer fast access to data, maintain data in the absence of external power, and be able to withstand large numbers of…

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Penn Researchers Create Biological Circuits with New Microscope

University of Pennsylvania researchers have developed a way to form these structures so they can operate in open-air environments, and, more important, have…

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Where Will Your Electrons Come From in 2030?

In the midst of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster and as summer peak electricity demand looms in the northern hemisphere, world-leading energy scientists,…

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Researchers cut machinery fuel consumption by half

– These heavy duty machines are operated for long periods of time, so by the end of the day emissions and fuel consumption have added up. Being able to target…

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Noise Research to Combat 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'

They are also developing a computer model to predict the noise output from wind farms so they can accurately and quickly assess the effectiveness of potential…

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Tailoring Bilayer Interfaces in Organic Photovoltaic Cells to Improve Output Voltage

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the University of Tokyo announced on May 16, 2011 that Associate Professor Keisuke Tajima of the University of…

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Code green: Energy-efficient programming to curb computers’ power use

A University of Washington project sees a role for programmers to reduce the energy appetite of the ones and zeroes in the code itself. Researchers have…

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Solar cells: Pillars of light

One of the major challenges in the world today is the energy crisis. The high demand and low supply of fossil fuel are driving up oil and food prices….

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NASA Innovates Thermal Control for Space Electronics

In the world of electronics, thermal control is always one of the limiting factors — particularly in space where there is no air to help cool down electronic…

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ORNL Marks Completion of Solar-Assisted EV Charging Stations

At a ceremony today at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, industry and lab officials celebrated the completion of 25 solar-assisted electric vehicle charging…

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