Engineering
The vision to create sustainable urban spaces is becoming a reality in several European cities, including Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow. Thanks to the EU-funded Ruggedised project, Rotterdam is developing and implementing various ...
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Energy & Green Tech
To deter attempts to disable U.S. electrical utilities and to defend U.S. nuclear weapon systems from evolving technological threats, Sandia National Laboratories has begun two multiyear initiatives to strengthen U.S. responses.
Mar 24, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Steve Lowe gazed into a gaping pit in the heart of the California desert, careful not to let the blistering wind send him toppling over the edge.
Mar 10, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Power systems and communication networks are increasingly interdependent, which can affect the response and recovery times when problems occur.
Mar 05, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
With the goal of eliminating brownouts and blackouts, new research from UBC's Okanagan School of Engineering is redesigning how electricity is distributed within power grids.
Feb 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The effect that fossil fuels are having on the climate emergency is driving an international push to use low-carbon sources of energy. At the moment, the best options for producing low-carbon energy on a large scale are wind ...
Feb 25, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A white paper from the International Energy Agency details how hydropower can help ease the global addition of wind and solar to the resource mix on power grids. Argonne's Audun Botterud offered his expertise as a co-author.
Feb 18, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Bushfires, storms and floods regularly leave thousands of Australian homes and businesses without power.
Feb 11, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
When the government of India set a goal of deploying 175 gigawatts of renewable power by 2022, they understood changes to their power system's operations were needed to achieve that level of renewable power on the grid. India ...
Feb 05, 2020
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Other
For three years running, California's wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, though, that hasn't spurred much tech innovation aimed at addressing extreme-weather disasters associated with climate ...
Jan 22, 2020
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