News tagged with grid resources

Grid computing for the masses

(PhysOrg.com) -- Having helped scientists study the building blocks of the universe, peer inside the human body in miniscule detail and monitor climate change, grid computing could soon be put to more mundane ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A nimbus rises in the world of cloud computing

Cloud computing is a hot topic in the technology world these days. Even if you're not a tech-phile, chances are if you've watched a lot of television or skimmed a business magazine, you've heard someone talking ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Sci-fi no longer, NREL engineers smart homes

Thanks to TV shows such as The Jetsons and Star Trek, many Americans grew up dreaming that homes of the future would be equipped with fantastic high-tech features. From automatic food dispensers to sliding do ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Clean energy becomes a selling point

As somewhat bewildered Apple shoppers in San Francisco, New York and Toronto learned firsthand this month, Greenpeace has a new enemy: dirty data. To attract attention to its report, "How Clean Is My Cloud?" - which draws ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Toward a 'green grid' for delivering solar and wind-based electricity

After years of neglect, scientists and policy makers are focusing more attention on developing technologies needed to make the so-called "green grid" possible, according to an article in ACS' Chemical Reviews. That's the mu ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers pursue re-engineering of US power grid for efficiency, renewable energy

Imagine a modern nation that works, communicates, and entertains itself via an ever-expanding lattice of fast and efficient high-tech devices but powers this network with an electric system that dates to before many parts ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Setting sail in an ecological 'Earthship'

Could sustainable architecture address pollution, climate change and resource depletion by helping us build self-sufficient, off-grid, housing from "waste", including vehicle tires and metal drinks containers? That's the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2