News tagged with smart energy

'Inlet Outlet' Lets Users Give Power Back To Wall Sockets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever wish you could you power your home's electrical appliances with the energy you generate on your exercise bike? A new concept called an "inlet outlet" could allow homeowners to put power ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (34) | comments 26 weblog

Home energy monitors may not cut electricity use

(PhysOrg.com) -- Home energy monitors (smart meters or Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS)), monitor the energy used by households and/or individual appliances within the home, and they are often recommended ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

First the smart phone, now the smart home: Digital technology on verge of tending to household tasks

We have all heard of the smartphone and any day now, most of us will have one. Not far behind: the smart home.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GE, Nissan join hands on electric cars

General Electric and Nissan, maker of the all-electric Nissan Leaf, said Friday they will team up over the next two years to explore ways to promote the use of electric vehicles.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Obama unveils historic power grid reform

President Barack Obama Tuesday announced the largest modernization of the US electricity grid in history, in a 3.4-billion-dollar bid to launch a new era of renewable energy consumption.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Finnish researchers reduce smart phones power consumption by more than 70 percent

Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have designed a network proxy that can cut the power consumption of 3G smart phones up to 74 percent.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hobbs, NM, picked as site of scientific ghost town

(AP) -- Gov. Susana Martinez and a group of investors announced Tuesday that a city in the heart of southeastern New Mexico's oil and gas country will be the site of a new $1 billion scientific ghost town where researchers ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New 'smart window' system with unprecedented performance

A new "smart" window system has the unprecedented ability to inexpensively change from summer to winter modes, darkening to save air conditioning costs on scorching days and returning to crystal clarity in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Google's PowerMeter Will Help Reduce Energy Consumption (Video)

(Physorg.com) -- Google.org has announced "PowerMeter", a platform that will help users track their home electricity usage in real-time on their home computer. This platform will receive data from "smart meters" ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2 weblog

Nanocrystals go bare: Stripping material’s tiny tethers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers with the DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a universal technique for stripping nanocrystals of tether-like molecules that until now have posed as obstacles ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers create tool to put the lid on solar power fluctuations

How does the power output from solar panels fluctuate when the clouds roll in? And can researchers predict these fluctuations? UC San Diego Professor Jan Kleissl and Matthew Lave, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Smart Grid could re-energize an aging system

At 5 p.m. after a long day's work, you drive your plug-in electric car to your garage. The car's battery is fairly full because you drove little today. You plug your car into a charging station, but rather than recharge, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 2

ZigBee would allow remote use of home electronics

You probably have a mobile phone with a Bluetooth radio in it, and you may have a Wi-Fi network as well. Soon, you could be using a third wireless networking technology in your house.

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

High-tech companies take on urban design with smart cities

Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and other major Japanese electronics makers are increasingly turning their sights toward "smart city" projects designed to create eco-friendly, energy-efficient communities.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Comcast enters smart thermostat game

Big news in the world of energy-saving home automation:

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1