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Voltage Conservation Might Create More Problems Than It Solves
For decades, utilities, regulators and consumers have been intrigued by the concept of reducing electric consumption by lowering voltage levels on the electric grid. Theory and practice say that simply using 114 volts instead of 120 volts saves energy. However, in spite of a body of evidence favoring… Read More
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Solving the American Power Crisis: The Future of Grid Energy Storage
Electricity, that wonderfully efficient medium for distributing power, has a behavioral quirk imparted by natural law: you can’t save it. This simple fact dictates the way we generate electricity and also poses a problem effectively using some forms of renewable energy. A myriad of new technologies… Read More
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The Future of Power Quality: Addressing Our Aging Power Grid
Power quality - or, simply, the usability of electric power - is a vital concern to many commercial businesses and industries. The proof is a rapidly growing global market for products to correct or improve power quality that will top $11 billion in 2011. The manufacturers of these products have reason… Read More
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Town Plans To Generate Electricity From Trash
It has been done before but not on this scale! Scientist in Minoa, New York have created the first prototype for a small-scale co-digestor using human and food waste to generate electricity for its village. Read More
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Standardizing Geothermal Regulations To Promote Growth
A code that standardizes the public reporting of geothermal energy on the Canadian stock market signals a change in investor confidence in the geothermal energy sector. Read More
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The Greenest Hotel in North America
Featuring 24 rooms and a structure that highlights its power production, combining solar power, smart thermostats and geothermal, this hotel uses up to 75 percent less energy than a traditional building. Read More
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Carbon Recycling - An Imaginative Way to Store Carbon Dioxide
Recycling CO2 into valuable products or fuel is a relatively new concept that is quickly gaining attention as an alternative to Carbon Sequestration. Read More
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CSU-Northridge Still Well Ahead of the Fuel Cell Curve
Faced with a growing population and evolving energy needs, Cal-State Univeristy: Northridge located in suburban Los Angeles built the world’s largest on-campus fuel cell plant. Read More
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New Catalyst Could Make Hydrogen Fuel a Real Possibility
Discovered by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California at Berkeley, a new catalyst may pave the way for cheaper and more efficient production of hydrogen gas from water. Read More
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Powering Airplanes With Leftover Tree Bark
Imagine proposing to Boeing or the US Air Force that they power their jets with bark. It might become a reality, a Professor with the University of Maine has successfully produced jet fuel from woody bio-mass, like tree bark, which has little or no commercial value. Read More
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One Wave or Another
Ocean Power Technologies is building the first utility-scale, commercial wave park in North America, which aims to harness the motion of the ocean and convert it into green energy. Read More
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