Power and Electrical Engineering
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Rethinking wind power
“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says Harvard applied physicist David Keith….
Research to probe deep within a solar cell
Working with the ISIS pulsed neutron and muon source at the Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, the researchers are the…
Dust Removal Makes Steel Production More Efficient
The newly developed Simetal Merim process from Siemens boasts an energy recovery level 20-30 percent higher than that achieved by conventional dedusting…
UC Santa Barbara scientists develop a whole new way of harvesting energy from the sun
Though still in its infancy, the research promises to convert sunlight into energy using a process based on metals that are more robust than many of the…
MIT researchers build Quad HD TV chip
It took only a few years for high-definition televisions to make the transition from high-priced novelty to ubiquitous commodity — and they now seem to be…
New imaging device that is flexible, flat, and transparent
Digital cameras, medical scanners, and other imaging technologies have advanced considerably during the past decade. Continuing this pace of innovation, an…