News tagged with maximum power

Wind turbines that learn like humans

Depending on the weather, wind turbines can face whispering breezes or gale-force gusts. Such variable conditions make extracting the maximum power from the turbines a tricky control problem, but a collaboration of Chinese ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

TRMM satellite sees hot towers in Cyclone Koji

Hot towers, or towering thunderclouds that give off an excessive amount of latent heat, usually indicate a tropical cyclone will strengthen in six hours, and NASA's TRMM satellite saw some of them as it passed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New kind of solar cell could capture significantly more energy than current cells

New solar cells could increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25%, according to scientists from the University of Cambridge.

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

NASA sees Alenga become a cyclone in the Southern Indian Ocean

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Cyclone Alenga and captured a visible image of the rounded and more powerful storm is it makes its way toward Western Australia.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Solar Mystery Solved

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are amongst the most dangerous cosmic phenomena man has ever known. Though they pose no harm to humans, their effect on technology is vast. When they occur, they possess the capability ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 8 weblog

Achieving optimal efficiencies for nanoengines

(PhysOrg.com) -- "There's a lot of recent interest in understanding the functioning and optimal performance of small systems," Katja Lindenberg tells PhysOrg.com. Lindenberg is a scientist in the Department of Chemistry and Bi ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1 feature

Atmospheric 'sunshade' could reduce solar power generation

The concept of delaying global warming by adding particles into the upper atmosphere to cool the climate could unintentionally reduce peak electricity generated by large solar power plants by as much as one-fifth, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 27