Energy & Green Tech
An emergency generator for your phone at time of power outages? That's on offer in the form of a crowdfunded-campaign item called Candle Charger. It offers USB power when you need it, designed to keep phones souped up when ...
Energy & Green Tech
During a power outage or after a disaster, it is hard to beat the simplicity of a diesel generator. Just supply fuel and start it up—so easy, anyone could do it. Renewable microgrids, on the other hand, are not so simple, ...
Sep 30, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Power outages are on the rise nationwide as climate change brings more frequent wildfires, heat waves, and severe weather events. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the state of California have both recently ...
Jun 27, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Past research suggests that climate change and energy systems have a bidirectional relationship. In other words, just like emissions from energy systems can fuel climate change, climate change could also expose the vulnerabilities ...
Internet
Most people call an internet outage an annoyance. The researchers at USC's ANT Lab (Analysis of Network Traffic) call it a data point.
Nov 1, 2023
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Telecom
Hurricanes, tropical storms and even severe thunderstorms can lead to power outages.
Aug 14, 2024
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Consumer & Gadgets
Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest that this lack of social media access offers a glimpse into the importance of social media not just as a tool to socialize ...
May 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Tens of thousands of small-scale hydro energy storage sites could be built from Australia's farm dams, supporting the uptake of reliable, low-carbon power systems in rural communities, new UNSW-Sydney-led research suggests.
Sep 7, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
(TechXplore)—A trio of researchers with Northwestern University has found vulnerabilities in the North American electrical grid by creating a simulation using real data. In their paper published in the journal Science, ...
Energy & Green Tech
The aging energy grid is being pushed to the breaking point. Power outages from extreme weather alone cost anywhere from $2 billion to $77 billion per year. And some isolated communities still rely on diesel generators for ...
Dec 3, 2021
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