News tagged with hydropower systems
Tidal power plant proposed for New York's East River
Here's exciting news for anyone who's been watching the fledgling efforts to promote tidal power in the U.S.: A New York energy company that has been testing tidal power in the East River has filed a formal application ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Jan 11, 2011 |
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Hydroelectric generator can be carried like a backpack
Bourne Energy, a company based in Malibu, California, specializes in a variety of hydropower systems. While most of its technology is for large-scale applications, with multiple units generating energy on ...
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Mar 02, 2010 |
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Nepal's whitewater rapids threatened by hydropower
The Bhote Koshi river rises in Tibet and cuts a mighty swathe through the Himalayas, carving out gorges as it tumbles into Nepal in a series of thundering rapids.
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Toward the EU energy mix: State of the art of the strategic energy technologies
A new edition of the Strategic Energy Technologies review has been published. This "2011 Technology Map", produced by the European Commission's in-house science service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), provides a European ...
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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The future of nuclear energy
Last March, the world watched closely as Japan struggled to contain a series of equipment failures, hydrogen explosions and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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Finding solutions to Achilles' heel of renewable energy: intermittency
(PhysOrg.com) -- William F. Pickard introduces the February 2012 special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE by quoting the Bible: “The wind bloweth where it listeth.” That, in so many words, ...
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Mar 06, 2012 |
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Screening Africa's renewable energies potential
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) has published today a study mapping the potential of renewable energy sources in Africa. The report analyses the current energy consumption in Africa and ...
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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New reports identify impacts of climate change on world's highest mountains
Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region -- site of Mount Everest and many of the world's tallest peaks -- highlight ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 04, 2011 |
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Arctic chill brings Facebook data center to Sweden
(AP) -- Facebook will build a new server farm on the edge of the Arctic Circle - its first outside the U.S. - that will improve performance for European users of the social networking site, officials said ...
Oct 27, 2011 |
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IBM and EKZ make electric vehicle charging more convenient with new smartphone application
IBM Research today announced that it has teamed with EKZ, the electricity utility provider of the Canton of Zurich in Switzerland, on a new pilot project that will allow consumers to conveniently charge electric ...
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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Mass. schools team up for supercomputer center
(AP) -- At a gritty industrial site occupied a century ago by a textile mill, five universities are collaborating to install supercomputers that will recreate the start of the universe and perform other research.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 09, 2011 |
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Major river basins have enough water to sustainably double food production in the coming decades
While water-related conflicts and shortages abound throughout the rapidly changing societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America, there is clearly sufficient water to sustain food, energy, industrial and environmental needs ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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