Energy & Green Tech
One year after winter storms crippled Texas's electricity grid, contributing to more than 200 deaths, a Cornell University-led analysis recommends contracting improvements to reduce decentralized energy markets' vulnerability ...
Feb 8, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Many of China's households still rely on small coal stoves for heat, which causes air pollution that damages health. To address these problems, the Chinese government launched a five-year "Clean Heating Plan" in 2017 with ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Engineering
Lift the lid on an electrified home, a factory or a mine, and you'll find a troop of squirrel cage motors active at all hours. Industrialized nations wouldn't be nearly as industrial without these.
Oct 19, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Fumbling to find flashlights during blackouts may soon be a distant memory, as quantum computing and artificial intelligence could learn to decipher an electric grid's problematic quirks and solve system hiccups so fast, ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Business
It is known that future uptake of distributed energy resources like wind and solar could be limited due to constraints in electrical grids. Now, a study from Berkeley researchers shows that grid limitations in California ...
Sep 14, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Solar energy has the potential to supply up to 40% of the nation's electricity within 15 years—a 10-fold increase over current solar output, but one that would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars ...
Sep 8, 2021
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Internet
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a computer scientist at the University of California, Irvine, presented her findings last week at the SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference regarding her concerns about vulnerability in the global ...
Energy & Green Tech
The need for reliable renewable energy is growing fast, as countries around the world—including Switzerland—step up their efforts to fight climate change, find alternatives to fossil fuels and reach the energy-transition ...
Aug 30, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Our electrical infrastructure has remained largely unchanged since World War II, but advances in technology—specifically materials—opened doors we never would have thought possible in the past. These advances have set ...
Aug 13, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Since buildings consume 75% of electricity in the U.S., they offer great potential for saving energy and reducing the demands on our rapidly changing electric grid. But how much, where, and through which strategies could ...
Jul 21, 2021
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