News tagged with cascading failure
Iowa State engineers design power structures that help keep the lights on
(PhysOrg.com) -- Iowa State University engineers are developing new and improved poles to carry electricity across the countryside. They say the new structures -- which can bend and deflect an extreme load ...
May 11, 2010 |
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Power factor correction: TDK's thyristor module for single-phase PFC
The TDK Corporation has extended its range of EPCOS thyristor modules for dynamic PFC. The new TSM-LC-I module now also allows single-phase PFC of networks with rated voltages from 230 to 525 V AC. Depending ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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'Buckliball' opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University ...
Mar 26, 2012 |
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Power hungry: The nation's energy grid is on the Department of Homeland Security's mind
The nation's electric grid isn't something most of us think about very often, except when an event such as the infamous 2003 blackout in the northeast takes place.
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Fukushima 1 year on: Poor planning hampered Fukushima response
One year after an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, 2011, an independent investigation panel has highlighted the country's failures in disaster planning and crisis management for the accident at the Fukushima ...
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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Belize protected area boosting predatory fish populations
A 14-year study by the Wildlife Conservation Society in an atoll reef lagoon in Glover's Reef, Belize has found that fishing closures there produce encouraging increases in populations of predatory fish species. ...
Dec 21, 2011 |
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BlackBerry services 'normal' despite earlier probe tweet
Research In Motion said late Wednesday that BlackBerry services are working normally after earlier announcing a probe into reports that users hit by a recent outage were still experiencing email woes. ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Blackberry users complain of ongoing email delays
Research In Motion said Wednesday it is investigating reports of Blackberry users still experiencing email woes, after a service outage affected millions of people worldwide last month.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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BlackBerry outage triggers lawsuits
Research In Motion is being sued in the United States and on its home turf in Canada for a BlackBerry service outage that affected millions of people worldwide.
Oct 27, 2011 |
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New insights into insulin resistance could lead to better drugs for diabetics
Research published in the October Molecular and Cellular Biology moves us closer to developing drugs that could mitigate diabetes.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Latest BlackBerry woes caused by email backlog
Three days of BlackBerry outages that spread to North America on Wednesday are being caused by a backlog of emails from Europe, the system's under-pressure owners said.
Oct 12, 2011 |
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