Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

Smaller Isn’t Always Better: Catalyst Simulations Could Lower Fuel Cell Cost

Materials science and engineering assistant professor Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby have developed a computational model that could optimize…

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Making Nanowires More Electrically Stable

Carmen Lilley, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is working on new procedures for making…

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New AFOSR Magnetron Could Disrupt Enemy Electronics

According to Dr. Ron Gilgenbach, an AFOSR-sponsored researcher at the University of Michigan, a new class of magnetrons was invented that holds the potential…

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Offshore Wind Energy Research at Alpha Ventus Site

– Research at the offshore wind energy test site alpha ventus- Rotor Blade Competence Center- Technical Reliabity- Wind Power-Management-System WPMS”We offer…

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Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Efficient Solar Cells

The researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube. Reported online Sept. 11 in…

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Seaglider Sets New Underwater Endurance and Range Records

During that time it propelled itself 3,050 miles (more than 4,900 kilometers) through the water of the Northeast Pacific racking up a distance equivalent to…

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Engineering Students Convert Vintage MGB to Electric Beauty

He was the new owner of a 1972 MGB – a red convertible, perfect for life in the Palmetto State, where he could zip along the highways and city streets with the…

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Iowa Power Fund helps Iowa State establish Wind Energy Manufacturing Laboratory

Just consider the turbine blades that spin in the wind: a single blade can be 40 to 50 meters long and 12,000 to 15,000 pounds. It has to be built within…

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Green Algae Coating Innovates Record-Setting Battery Design

A group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory at Uppsala University have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of these algae can serve…

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Electrical Circuit Runs Entirely Off Power in Trees

There's enough power in trees for University of Washington researchers to run an electronic circuit, according to results to be published in an upcoming issue…

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New NIST Trace Explosives Standard Slated for Homeland Security Duty

To aid such searches, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with support from the Department of Homeland Security, has developed a new…

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New Techniques Make Oil Discovery More Efficient

The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they…

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Future Wind Energy: Key Issues for 30% Adoption

A team of engineers from the University of Zaragoza believes it is “technically viable and economically reasonable” for wind energy to account for 30% of…

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Open-Source Camera: A New Era for Digital Photography

Stanford photo scientists are out to reinvent digital photography with the introduction of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around…

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Innovative Fuel Cells: UMass Research Enhances Efficiency

Professor Derek Lovley from the University of Massachusetts, USA isolated bacteria with large numbers of tiny projections called pili which were more efficient…

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Protecting the Power Grid Focus of DOE-funded Research

Today, they are strongly involved in projects which amount to more than 50 percent of the available U.S. Department of Energy stimulus awards to modernize the…

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