Engineering
Engineers in Australia have found a new way to make power-pole insulators resistant to fire and electrical sparking, promising to prevent dangerous pole-top fires and reduce blackouts.
Apr 30, 2024
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Engineering
The behavior of specific weather patterns and their impact on power faults could be used to develop a weather pattern-conditioned fault forecasting system for power system operators.
Jan 23, 2024
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Engineering
Winter storms can easily become billion-dollar disasters as the snow piles up on interstates and collapses roofs and power lines. Yet, while canceled flights and business interruptions can't be avoided, what turns a snowstorm ...
Jan 11, 2024
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Hardware
This week a reader writes: I have a Mac desktop with two 1 terabyte external SSDs, one used for Time Machine backups and one for my daily files.
Jan 3, 2024
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Engineering
Train accidents could be caused by solar storms switching signaling from red to green according to new research examining the impact of space weather.
Dec 11, 2023
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Engineering
Natural disasters are occurring more frequently, causing damage to the power grid and leading to widespread and prolonged power outages. Leveraging mobile power sources has shown potential in lessening the impact of these ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Electricity production and distribution in the U.S. currently depends on more than 10,000 power plants, 642,000 miles of high voltage lines, 56,000 substations and 6.3 million miles of local distribution lines. Much of that ...
Oct 17, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Along southwestern Albania's coastline, the sun shines bright—warming the 234,828 new solar panels at the Karavasta power station that will be connected to the country's energy grid in the coming weeks.
Oct 10, 2023
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Engineering
Individual neighborhoods will be intimately involved in providing local solutions to collective problems. One measure will be distributed renewable energy production—energy produced at local levels, either by solar technology, ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Remote communities in disaster-prone areas could become more resilient to power outages by adopting more renewable energy technologies. That's the main finding of a UNSW Sydney report, which recommends more policy support ...
Sep 13, 2023
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