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Dexim, creator of accessories and applications for consumer electronics, is making a splash with its cool “Visible” USB cable for iDevices that uses cool light effects to show how current passes through the cable to your Apple gadget. The Dexim Visible Green Smart Charge & Sync Cable for iPhone, iPod Tou... |
1 February 2012
08:09 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, announce the creation of the world's smallest carbon nanotube transistors, a device that measures only 9 nanometers across. That is the equivalent of 9 billionths of a meter. As the drive towards miniaturizing electronics... |
26 January 2012
10:25 GMT |
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Physicists and engineers at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announce the development of an innovative power-over-fiber (PoF) communications cable, which is capable of achieving total electrical isolation.
According to its creators, the cable will make it a lot easier to ac... |
18 January 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Coal-fired power plants are currently blamed worldwide for their contribution in accelerating climate change, qualified as worst polluters in EPA reports, because of their enormous amount of harmful emissions generated annually.
A new green technology developed, tested and improved by MP BioMass plans to change this... |
16 January 2012
04:46 GMT |
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The great importance of the mighty Mekong river separates authorities and local people in two categories. Some think the river should be dammed to provide electricity and encourage hydropower development.
Other voices warn that a hydro-electric dam of these dimensions will trigger a series of harmful changes for th... |
14 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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Investigators at the Harvard University announce the discovery of a naturally-occurring battery at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The construct is powered up by microorganisms that live near and around structures called hydrothermal vents. These are locations in the Earth's crust from which hot gases are ven... |
12 December 2011
10:23 GMT |
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Biomass draws out a field of activity with a lot of potential. In a few years, appropriate subsidies can make the entire market bloom. Uncertainty slowed down the development of biomass, just like it did in the case of solar and wind power projects. However, once the government shows its commitment to support this ... |
21 November 2011
03:53 GMT |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigators determined in a new study that graphene is capable of displaying very interesting thermoelectric reactions when exposed to light. The new behavior has not been studied before, but experts say that it could have many practical applications.
Graphene is a bi-... |
7 October 2011
04:39 GMT |
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New generations of nanomaterials could be used to harvest more energy out of the wasted heat many electrical devices and industrial processes create. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) scientists have recently developed such a material, which they say works in a very efficient manner.
Waste heat appears wherev... |
28 September 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Between September 21-25, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was the home of do-it-yourself enthusiasts who create electric cars. People from around the country arrived at the rally, to display their creations at the EVCCON 2011 gathering. There are numerous electrical vehicle (EV) conversion shops across the United States, wh... |
28 September 2011
07:36 GMT |
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Experts with the Imperial College London (ICL) announce the creation of the world's first invisibility cloak for magnetic field. What the antimagnet shield does is shield a target object from the effects of the magnetic field for as long as researchers want it to.According to the research team, which is based in... |
24 September 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Experts in Japan and Germany announce the development of a new device that can convert sound waves into spin current. The electricity can then be transferred through a standard wire. Through this approach, it is also possible to obtain magnetic energy as well.
The research was led by PhD student Ken-ichi Uchida a... |
20 September 2011
10:08 GMT |
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Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) environmental engineer Bruce Logan is currently working on a way of transforming wastewater from households into usable, electrical energy. If his team is successful, then we may gain access to a new method of producing current in a renewable manner. This study was informed ... |
22 August 2011
10:19 GMT |
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Though it covers three quarters of the planet, and makes up more than 70 percent of our bodies, water is still very little understood in comparison to what experts are discovering it can do. Recent discoveries are beginning to indicate that we don't really know that much about it. While the chemical has a relati... |
19 August 2011
10:22 GMT |
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One of the words most often used to describe today's worldwide energy usage patterns is wasteful. A lot of the energy we harvest at such a high cost is lost due to inefficiencies in the distribution system, but now experts have shown through mathematics that this wasted energy can be recaptured for use. The math... |
21 July 2011
07:39 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Rice University, in the United States, announces the development of a new manufacturing technique, that allows them to “amplify” the production of carbon nanotubes. The innovation will play a critical role in developing efficient electric grids in the near future.According ... |
15 July 2011
05:58 GMT |
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At this point, more than half the energy being produced in the world is wasted as heat by automobiles, vehicles, factories, power plants and just about everything that uses or produces electricity. Researchers at the Oregon State University have developed a mechanism to harvest this wasted energy.The Oregon State tea... |
11 June 2011
06:59 GMT |
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A group of investigators proposes that the craters located at the lunar poles may be charged to hundred of volts, due to the effects of solar winds flowing above. The streams of charged particles slam into the natural obstructions produced by the edges of craters, triggering the phenomenon.The new calculations were p... |
6 June 2011
04:43 GMT |
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Car manufacturers are well aware of the fact that more than 67 percent of the energy that gasoline stores is wasted during the burning cycle as heat. As such, some of them are now turning to testing thermoelectric materials, which hold great promise for making cars more efficient.This special class contains materials... |
25 May 2011
05:04 GMT |
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For millennia, people have used water to extinguish fire in most circumstances. Now, after thousands of years, experts are getting ready to move to the next fire-fighting technology, which uses electricity. Generally, we are told not to use water on power outlets, as this may cause unwanted interactions between the c... |
28 March 2011
05:25 GMT |
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Miniaturizing electronics is one of the main avenues of research in the industry today, and scientists are looking to develop a variety of ways for achieving it. A group of experts in the United States has taken things down to the molecular level, where they successfully forced molecules to transport current.This was... |
4 March 2011
08:29 GMT |
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Chemical engineers are currently looking for new ways of designing and building solar cells, in such a way that they could be spray-painted on roofs, windows and walls. Harnessing the power of the Sun could in the near future be a lot closer at hand than it is today.Existing conversion technologies are still pretty e... |
14 February 2011
06:47 GMT |
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Throughout the United States, 2011 will represent the first year when incandescent light bulbs will lose their dominance over the market. Compact fluorescent lights (CFL) and light-emitting diodes (LED) are the new technologies that the public will have to run to, as incandescent bulbs get phased out. The public does... |
20 January 2011
16:01 GMT |
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A team of Swedish researchers came up with a way of connecting solar panels to the existing boiler within a house.This means that people who wanted to do so but had to spend a lot of money, will afford to turn to solar power to heat their water.Previous systems needed the house owners to change boilers, making the ne... |
13 January 2011
06:15 GMT |
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A group of German investigators from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) and the Universitaet zu Koeln (UzK) recently managed to develop a new technology that may enable the faster writing and processing of data inside next-generation computers.
This is one of the main goals in the industry today, and most ... |
18 December 2010
05:06 GMT |
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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Denver College of Engineering and Applied Science, have found a way to desalinate water, produce hydrogen and treat wastewater, all at the same time. In 2009, a study that was published in Environmental Science & Technology, integrated desalination into microbial ... |
3 December 2010
09:46 GMT |
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A joint team of experts from the Purdue University and General Motors is currently working on developing a new harvesting system that, once applied to the exhaust pipes of average cars, will be able to produce electricity, and also reduce fuel consumption.The device will be able to use the heat that automobiles relea... |
24 November 2010
07:02 GMT |
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Researchers at the Stanford University, in the United States, will receive important funds to study methods of improving electricity transport and distribution, through smart power grid systems. Their job will be to come up with efficient, cost-effective ways of doing so. University researchers will get $1.2 million ... |
19 November 2010
06:02 GMT |
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Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) experts announce the development of a new type of nanoscale generators, which are capable of producing sufficient amounts of electricity to power up small electronic devices, including liquid crystal displays and light-emitting diodes (LED).The secret to the new generato... |
8 November 2010
03:49 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States announces the development of a groundbreaking new technology, which can be used to harness the electrical signals being passed through the human brain. This amazing achievement was made possible by relentless work from experts at the University of Michigan School of Kines... |
2 November 2010
04:54 GMT |
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Investigators in Austria are currently working on a new method of estimating the amount of electricity that wind farms will generate given a specified area and a type of wind patterns.The researchers are looking at several prediction methods, comparing them against each other and with real-life production numbers, in... |
25 October 2010
05:05 GMT |
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An official report detailing the factors that impact the implementation of wind farm technologies in the United States has been released by the NREL on October 7. The announcement was made by Steven Chu, who is the US Energy Secretary. He says that experts at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable E... |
8 October 2010
03:46 GMT |
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A team of experts from California announces that it manage to improve silicon-based thermoelectric materials to such an extent, that they are now able to harvest waste heat energy.The accomplishment is tremendously important, researchers say, given that it could lead to the creation of devices that can convert heat f... |
4 October 2010
03:27 GMT |
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A company announces that it has developed a series of batteries that can store 200 percent more electricity than anything else currently on the market. The firm has been opened for 18 months.Engineers with the Menlo Park, California-based Amprius say that their approach to developing batteries relies on the use ... |
17 September 2010
10:09 GMT |
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Scientists believe that a recently-developed technological process may lead in the near future to solar cells that are capable of arranging themselves into the most efficient pattern for energy production.The individual cells would bring themselves together in a manner similar to a molecular “flash mob,” ... |
6 September 2010
04:27 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of St Andrews in the UK are working on developing molecular system for batteries that can be recharged by light alone. The innovation could mean that future batteries will be able to produce, and then store their own electricity. Unlike existing photovoltaic cells, which produce... |
12 August 2010
01:46 GMT |
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Since 2005, when experts at the University of Manchester discovered the carbon compound known as graphene, the international scientific community has been convinced that it found the replacement material for silicon. But experts are well aware that they need to understand graphene thoroughly before using it in mass, ... |
4 August 2010
05:01 GMT |
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A team of investigators led by Rice University scientists has recently provided the first-ever evidence that large-scale electronic consequences of “quantum critical” effects exist. The finding came after the group studied a class of materials known as magnetic heavy-fermion metals, which also includes hi... |
29 July 2010
03:43 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, experts at the Cornell University determined that using single-molecule devices for applications at very small scales iwa both practical and feasible. The group conducted a series of experiments on individual molecules, and learned that these structures could produce the necessary elect... |
11 June 2010
05:56 GMT |
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The goal of producing electricity through renewable, clean methods has been with science for many years, but it has taken on new significance over the past couple of decades. The threats of global warming and climate change have placed more emphasis on deriving electricity from the Sun, wind, Earth's heat and so... |
2 June 2010
06:03 GMT |
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A group of scientists proposes a new method for reducing the severity of tinnitus. This is a condition of the human ear, in which people hear what can best be described as “phantom” sounds and ringing, even though no discernible sound source exists. Experts from the Dallas-based startup Microtransponder s... |
24 May 2010
06:58 GMT |
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A group of scientists from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor announces the creation of the world's smallest pump. The minute device is no larger than a human red blood cell, but it can function fairly effectively, when considering its size. The power supply for this instrument is ensured by an electrode th... |
17 May 2010
04:09 GMT |
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One of the major problems associated with electrical wires is the fact that they lose a lot of energy through their coatings. Most of the times, this lost power is radiated as heat, which explains why circuits and wires get warm, and sometimes even melt. Engineers and physicists have been working for a long time on m... |
13 May 2010
10:39 GMT |
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For anyone living in the countryside, or at the edge of large cities, the sight of massive electricity poles is a very familiar one. These large structures, which can at times be as much as 12 feet wide and 100 feet (33 meters) high, are extremely resilient to a host of factors, but they are by no means invulnerable.... |
12 May 2010
09:58 GMT |
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Four separate research projects have recently been awarded grant money under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in order to conduct investigations into new methods of producing electricity in a clean, environmentally-friendly manner. The $8.6 million have been awarded to teams at the US Department of... |
4 May 2010
05:37 GMT |
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While constructing a wind farm may not seem overly complex, the challenges associated with placing turbines at an off-shore location are monumental. Foundations need to be set in place at the correct location, and secured tightly to the bottom of the sea or ocean. Then, the machines themselves need to be constructed ... |
3 May 2010
09:21 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States, featuring scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Drexel University believes it may have finally solved a very limiting problem plaguing electronics today. The researchers say that batteries are at ... |
26 April 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Inside the human brain, nerve cells called neurons stick to each other forming neural pathways, each composed of tens to thousands of these structures. They are bound together through synapses, which mediate the transmission of electrical impulses from one neuron to the next through chemicals called neurotransmitters... |
26 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Representatives from the US Department of Energy (DOE) announce that they have just awarded a $2.5 million grant to the College of Technology, at the University of Houston. The money will be used to create a new type of training program, which will seek to train a small, highly-specialized unit of technicians in how ... |
14 April 2010
03:04 GMT |
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One of the most peculiar occurrences in nature is the fact that deserts can experience lightning. This should not happen, experts say, as the amount of precipitations in some of the world's driest areas is almost negligible. However, dust storms appear perfectly capable of producing lightning discharges, a fact ... |
12 April 2010
03:50 GMT |
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