Engineering
Protective gloves, such as those used for work, sport or household gardening, retrieve their protective function from a special coating. This coating provides abrasion resistance, makes the material waterproof and resistant ...
Sep 6, 2024
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Engineering
The cost effectiveness of wind farms could be significantly improved by reducing the speed of wind turbines that are clustered together, which could improve their longevity and also reduce noise pollution.
Sep 4, 2024
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Engineering
Solar cells based on perovskites, a versatile class of materials with promising optoelectronic properties, are gradually making their way toward commercialization. While these solar cells can have notable advantages over ...
Energy & Green Tech
Photovoltaics are set to meet over 40% of Switzerland's electricity needs by 2050. But solar power isn't always available when it's needed: there's too much of it in summer and too little in winter, when the sun shines less ...
Aug 31, 2024
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Engineering
Using 3D printing technology and ultrasonic joining techniques, researchers at TU Graz have succeeded in attaining an extremely strong joining of a renewable raw material wood with metal and polymer composite.
Aug 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Global oil demand is unlikely to fall by 2050 despite progress on renewable energy, the US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil said Monday, pointing to rising population and demand for energy worldwide.
Aug 27, 2024
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Engineering
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ...
Aug 23, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Currently, industrial processes in the U.S. account for approximately a third of the country's carbon dioxide emissions—even more than the annual emissions from passenger vehicles, trucks, and airplanes combined. Decarbonizing ...
Aug 19, 2024
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Business
Even those of us who Google every day—and that's the vast majority of us—can and should applaud this week's federal court ruling holding that the company is maintaining its dominance in internet search through an illegal ...
Aug 11, 2024
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Telecom
The integration of subcarrier modulated signals into Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), has brought forth new layers of complexity in signal acquisition and tracking, stemming from their distinctive structure. Although ...
Aug 5, 2024
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