Power and Electrical Engineering

Power and Electrical Engineering

PowerNap Plan: Slash Data Center Energy Use by 75%

Data centers, central to the nation's cyberinfrastructure, house computing, networking and storage equipment. Each time you make an ATM withdrawal, search the…

Power and Electrical Engineering

Clean Energy Investment Fails to Meet Climate Goals

The world economic crisis has hit investment in clean energy and means its growth is no longer on track for the world to avert the worst impact of climate…

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Laser Technology Boosts Efficiency in Photovoltaics

To reach these aims and to demonstrate the feasibility of laser manufacturing processes in photovoltaics ten companies and institutes are cooperating in the €…

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Magnesium: The Key to Energy Efficiency in Transportation

Magnesium will become the material of choice as designers strive to improve energy efficiency in transportation.Magnesium and its alloys are being considered…

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Intelligent use of the Earth's heat

Geothermal energy is increasingly contributing to the power supply world wide. Iceland is world-leader in expanding development of geothermal utilization: in…

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Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power

Wind is variable and can only partially be predicted. The large-scale use of wind power in the electricity system is therefore tricky. PhD candidate Bart…

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Exploring Ethanol Dependency: Insights from SDSU Research

SDSU research associate Yonas Hamda’s article, “Dependency on the Ethanol Industry,” is included in a recent issue of the SDSU Economics Commentator. It’s…

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Nanogenerators Harness Energy from Running Rodents and Touch

And using the same nanotechnology, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have also generated electrical current from a tapping finger – moving the users…

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Enzyme Cocktail Turns Cellulosic Waste Into Hydrogen Fuel

Researchers at Virginia Tech, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Georgia have produced hydrogen gas pure enough to power a fuel cell…

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Biofuels: A Sustainable Solution to Reduce Petroleum Use

The goal of the “90-Billion Gallon Biofuel Deployment Study” was to assess whether and how a large volume of cellulosic biofuel could be sustainably produced,…

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Ocean-Tracking Receiver Enhances Weather Forecast Accuracy

Now, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, are designing and building the next generation of…

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Batteries Boosted: Rice University’s Hybrid Energy Innovation

Need to store electricity more efficiently? Put it behind bars. That's essentially the finding of a team of Rice University researchers who have created hybrid…

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Norway Invests Billions in Renewable Energy Research Centers

The eight research centres will focus on topics ranging from wind, solar and bioenergy to CO2 capture and storage and zero-energy housing, and research groups…

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Solar-Powered Dryer for Pepper Berries: Sustainable Innovation

Researchers: Assoc Prof Dr Ir Andrew Ragai Henry Rigit, Ervina Junaidi, Dr Rubiyah Baini, Almon Chai Wei-YenThis research project is on the design and…

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Long-Range Spin Currents: New Advances in Spintronics

However, sustaining spin currents has proven difficult. Now researchers from the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako with scientists from Keio University,…

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Queen's energy partnership makes waves for UK

Aquamarine Power Limited, a marine energy company, and Queen’s University Belfast have agreed a new five year research partnership which will develop the next…

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