News tagged with grid
Grid realities cancel out some of wind power's carbon savings
(Phys.org) -- Wind energy lowers carbon emissions, but adding turbines to the current grid system does not eliminate emissions proportionally, according to a report by researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 30, 2012 |
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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
May 28, 2012 |
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Satellite proposed to send solar power to Earth
(Phys.org) -- Artemis Innovation Management Solutions has been given some seed money by NASA to look deeper into a project the company first proposed last summer; namely, building a satellite that could collect ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2012 |
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US probing cyber attacks on gas pipelines (Update)
A campaign of cyber attacks has been targeting US natural gas pipeline operators, officials acknowledged Tuesday, raising security concerns about vulnerabilities in key infrastructure.
May 08, 2012 |
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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
May 16, 2012 |
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Solar Roadways Awarded DOT Contract to Pave Roads with Solar Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a first step toward turning highways into energy-generating solar panels, the Sagle, Idaho-based startup Solar Roadways has recently received a $100,000 grant from the US Department of ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 07, 2009 |
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The heat is on for sodium-manganese oxide rechargeable batteries
(PhysOrg.com) -- By adding the right amount of heat, researchers have developed a method that improves the electrical capacity and recharging lifetime of sodium ion rechargeable batteries, which could be a ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Will Bloom box replace power grid? Details on Wednesday (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hot energy news for this week comes in the form of a small box called the Bloom box, whose inventor hopes that it will be in almost every US home in the next five to 10 years. K.R. Sridhar, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 23, 2010 |
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Portable tech might provide drinking water, power to villages
Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electricity.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 03, 2011 |
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Upgrading the vanadium redox battery
Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its high cost. But new research ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2011 |
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'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future
Rice University scientists have achieved a pivotal breakthrough in the development of a cable that will make an efficient electric grid of the future possible.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 14, 2011 |
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How to choose a catalyst: Predicting which materials will perform best in fuel cells and metal air batteries
MIT researchers have found a new way to predict which materials will perform best as catalysts for oxygen reduction, a core process in metal air batteries and fuel cells, opening up the possibility of faster ...
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Affordability of batteries key to harnessing wind and solar power
Future batteries used by the energy grid to store power from the wind and sun must be reliable, durable and safe, but affordability is really the key to widespread deployment, according to a new report published online March ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 07, 2011 |
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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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Biggest solar storm since 2005 pummels Earth
A potent solar flare has unleashed the biggest radiation storm since 2005 and could disrupt some satellite communications in the polar regions, US space weather monitors said Monday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 23, 2012 |
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