Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Sweden Boosts Wind Turbine Production with New Investment

The Swedish Wind Power Technology Centre, SVTC, has been founded to support Swedish industry with know-how related to wind power design and to train new…

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Home’s Electrical Wiring Acts as Antenna to Receive Low-Power Sensor Data

The walls do have ears, thanks to a device that uses a home’s electrical wiring as a giant antenna. Sensors developed by researchers at the University of…

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Tiny MAVs: Exploring Environmental Hazards with Precision

His basic research is on track to evolve into robotic, insect-scale devices for monitoring and exploration of hazardous environments, such as collapsed…

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Computer in Wrapping-Paper Form

Driven by rapid global industrialization, finite fossil fuel reserves, and the high cost of many alternative energy options, meeting the world’s energy…

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ORNL scientists reveal battery behavior at the nanoscale

A research team led by ORNL's Nina Balke, Stephen Jesse and Sergei Kalinin has developed a new type of scanning probe microscopy called electrochemical strain…

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Leading a national project for the construction of a next-generation smart grid

Research Institute for Advanced Network TechnologyLeading a national project for the construction of a next-generation smart gridIn order to solve the energy…

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Boosting Community Power in Renewable Energy Development

Planning delays and rejections encourage commercial developers to instead focus on remote or deprived communities as sites for new power plants. In areas of…

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Portable Laser Backpack Transforms 3D Mapping Technology

Research leading to the development of the reconnoitering backpack, was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the Army Research Office…

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EU Leads Global Solar System Installations in 2009

Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters of the world's new solar systems were installed. By the end of 2009,…

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NASA Funds Development of Nanoscale Materials for High Energy Density Lithium-Ion Batteries

NEI is the prime contractor on the NASA contract and Shirley Meng, a professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of…

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Harnessing Dark Silicon to Boost Smartphone Battery Life

Dark silicon refers to the huge swaths of silicon transistors on today’s chips that are underused because there is not enough power to utilize all the…

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Greener Than Expected: Empa’s Li-Ion Battery Life Cycle Analysis

It is not an easy task to compare the environmental effects of battery powered cars to those caused by conventionally fuelled automobiles. The degree to which…

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Tecnalia Develops Solar-Optimizing Glass for Sustainable Energy

The term “photovoltaic” literally means “light-electricity”. This technology arose in the 1950s and currently has great possibilities of making contributions…

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Researchers Develop Ultrahigh-Power Energy Storage Devices

These micro-supercapacitors have the potential to power nomad electronics, wireless sensor networks, biomedical implants, active radiofrequency identification…

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New System Developed to Test and Evaluate High-Energy Laser Weapons

High-energy lasers — one type of directed energy weapon — can be mounted on aircraft to deliver a large amount of energy to a far-away target at the speed of…

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Open software platform helps to save energy

Faced with rising electricity and heating costs, more and more consumers are opting to save energy, and now the government is beginning to help them. As from…

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