Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

New Report on Street Lighting Technologies Released by Nlpip

This report comes at a critical time when many municipalities, some with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, are in the process of…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Rain Or Shine, Researchers Find New Ways to Forecast Large Photovoltaic Power Plant Output

By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

NIST 'Vision Science Facility' aims for lighting revolution

“LEDs can be very energy efficient, and they are a lot smaller and last a lot longer than light bulbs,” says NIST vision scientist Wendy Davis. “They're what…

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Growing nanowires horizontally yields new benefit: 'nano-LEDs'

Nanowires typically are “grown” by the controlled deposition of molecules—zinc oxide, for example—from a gas onto a base material, a process called chemical…

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Turning Waste Heat Into Power: Innovative Solutions Explained

What do a car engine, a power plant, a factory and a solar panel have in common? They all generate heat – a lot of which is wasted. University of Arizona…

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Rethinking Renewables: A New Approach to Energy Storage for Wind and Solar

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are leading a new $2 million study to help overcome a key bottleneck slowing the proliferation of large-scale…

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Tiny Generators Convert Waste Heat Into Usable Power

Now a joint team of Ukrainian and American scientists has demanded more work and less poetry from the second law of thermodynamics, proposing a novel…

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Rain or shine, Sandia National Laboratories’ researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output

By observing cloud shape, size and movement, the system provides a way for utility companies to predict and prepare for fluctuations in power output due to…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients say it's 'too easy'

One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence.University of Central…

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University of Nevada, Reno Turns Sludge Into Clean Power

“We are very pleased with the results of the demonstration testing of our research,” Chuck Coronella, principle investigator for the research project and an…

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Collecting Electricity from Air: A New Alternative Energy Source

“Our research could pave the way for turning electricity from the atmosphere into an alternative energy source for the future,” said study leader Fernando…

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New Oak Ridge homes are laboratories for energy efficiency

A ribbon-cutting ceremony held today celebrated the opening of all four homes as laboratories, a major milestone of the first ZEBRAlliance project….

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Silicon Carbide Tech: Newcastle’s Breakthrough in Extreme Conditions

The state-of-the-art technology being pioneered by experts at Newcastle University uses Silicon Carbide electronics that can withstand temperatures equal to…

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Assessing Environmental Impact of Organic Solar Cells

Solar energy could be a central alternative to petroleum-based energy production. However, current solar-cell technology often does not produce the same energy…

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Heraeus Ignite Technology for reliable lamps

Arc and Flash lamps are used for a variety of different applications. For precise measure of distance in laser based range finders, for laser excitation in…

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Next-Gen Electronic Biosensing for Personalized Medicine

The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic…

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