Cranberry farmers want to build solar panels over their bogs
Plummeting cranberry prices and the country's ongoing trade wars have America's cranberry industry eyeing a possible new savior: solar power.
Oct 30, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Plummeting cranberry prices and the country's ongoing trade wars have America's cranberry industry eyeing a possible new savior: solar power.
Oct 30, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a way to better harness the volume of energy collected by solar panels.
Aug 27, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
How well is the UK doing to seal a future of solar powered trains? Will connecting solar power directly to rail networks help meet a good enough share of electricity needs? Eyes are on a pilot scheme going on now and it ...
Engineering
Autonomous vehicles relying on light-based image sensors often struggle to see through blinding conditions, such as fog. But MIT researchers have developed a sub-terahertz-radiation receiving system that could help steer ...
Feb 14, 2019
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Robotics
It took just over 10 years, but real science has finally caught up to the science fiction of Iron Man's transforming exoskeleton suit.
Feb 13, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Oregon State University scientists have found a resource to increase agricultural production on dry, unirrigated farmland—solar panels.
Nov 2, 2018
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Robotics
Microhydraulic actuators are designed to convert electrical power into mechanical power on a microscale with more power density and higher efficiency. Essentially, these new actuators work by combining the surface tension ...
Engineering
Drones use GPS to find their way without a pilot. But GPS signals can be easily blocked by tall skyscrapers or trees—leaving drones lost.
Aug 16, 2018
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Computer Sciences
(Tech Xplore)—A team of researchers from several institutions in China has applied deep learning by a computer to the problem of reading visual imagery in the brain and then reproduced it in a 2-D format. A paper describing ...
Engineering
A team led by Shree K. Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor of Computer Science at Columbia Engineering, has developed a novel sheet camera that can be wrapped around everyday objects to capture images that cannot be taken with one ...
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