Energy & Green Tech

Targeted demand response reduces price volatility of electric grid

Demand response, a measure taken to reduce the energy load in response to supply constraints within the Texas electric grid, has been a topic of recent conversation after the wake of Winter Storm Uri just one year ago. Demand ...

Engineering

New air filter solutions for high technology processes

Metal processing with lasers and plasma releases many different pollutants into the ambient air. The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS, together with partners, has developed a filter system that efficiently ...

Consumer & Gadgets

Why do smoke alarms keep going off even when there's no smoke?

Editor's note: MVS Chandrashekhar is a professor of electrical engineering at the University of South Carolina. In this interview, he explains how smoke detectors work and why they sometimes sound an alarm for what seems ...

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