Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report said Wednesday.
Internet
Apr 8, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and transmission systems and test have shown that a hacker can break into the system resulting in a massive blackout.
Electric grids are getting smarter in an IBM lab in Texas as the promise of billions of US economic stimulus dollars fuels a drive to make power delivery more efficient and greener.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 22, 2009
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On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because this one was ...
Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Dispersed wind farms and solar panels on people’s homes are posing new challenges for managing power grids that were designed when all electricity was generated in centralised plants. A new semantic web ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2009
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Did you know a solar flare can make your toilet stop working?
Space Exploration
Jan 22, 2009
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This month, the City of Newark, Delaware became the first electric utility in the US to use a car to store and provide power for the local electric grid.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 21, 2009
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A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of ...
Engineering
Jan 7, 2009
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