News tagged with energy distribution
Inequality and investment bubbles
"Money, it's a gas," says the sixties rock group Pink Floyd in their song "Money." Indeed, physics professor Victor Yakovenko is an expert in statistical physics and studies how the flow of money and the distribution ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Apr 19, 2012 |
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'Artificial leaf' eyed as holy grail in energy research
Turbo-charging photosynthesis -- by which plants and bacteria turn sunlight into food and energy -- in an "artificial leaf" could yield a vast commercial power source, scientists said.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 20, 2012 |
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New software tools for railway signaling and energy distribution
New tools to improve the design of embedded software systems in automated railway signalling and smart energy distribution are being developed as part of a multi-million Euro project lead by researchers at the University ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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OECD forum stands by 'light touch' on Internet regulation
Key players in the Internet world stressed that the "light touch" approach to regulation, along with a free flow of information remained vital to life on the web, the OECD said on Wednesday after a two-day ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Testing smart energy systems
A smartphone is all it takes to turn the heating on or off at home. This might sound like science fiction to the average user, but it is not unusual for the scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Stuxnet worm brings cyber warfare out of virtual world
A mysterious computer worm that has struck Iran has raised the spectre of a cyber attack as a new weapon of war, a danger NATO identifies as a key threat, experts say.
Oct 01, 2010 |
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World's biggest Wave Hub installed off UK coast
(PhysOrg.com) -- A wave energy generation test site called the "Wave Hub" is being set up off Cornwall’s northern coast. The site is the first offshore wave energy site in the UK, and will allow four wave ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 08, 2010 |
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New system developed to test and evaluate high-energy laser weapons
Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies -- known as directed energy weapons -- are maturing to the point of ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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How a smart, decentralized Energy Web is essential for managing renewable energy sources
(PhysOrg.com) -- A decade ago, Gnutella, Kazaa and other early peer-to-peer (P2P) systems showed that a decentralized approach to managing large-scale, widely distributed systems could offer many essential ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jul 06, 2010 |
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Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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European innovation tackles power cuts
Many European countries have just endured their coldest, most protracted winter in decades, and the importance of a secure and reliable energy supply has never been more evident. Additionally, bad weather can cause unprecedented ...
Apr 30, 2010 |
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Compressed Air Energy Storage: Renewable Energy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Wind-power turbines have played an important step in renewable energy but now the future of wind power may be underground. By using compressed-air energy storage plants, air is pumped into ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2010 |
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'Distributed energy' has power to save billions
Wide-scale adoption of low-emission distributed energy could reduce the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon future by as much a $130 billion by 2050, according to a new report released today by CSIRO.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 03, 2010 |
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Where's the next boom? Maybe in 'cleantech'
(AP) -- Our economy sure could use the Next Big Thing. Something on the scale of railroads, automobiles or the Internet - the kind of breakthrough that emerges every so often and builds industries, generates ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Bats recognize the individual voices of other bats
Bats can use the characteristics of other bats' voices to recognize each other, according to a study by researchers from the University of Tuebingen, Germany and the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany. The ...
Jun 05, 2009 |
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