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Engineers Design, Test Taller, High-Strength Concrete Towers for Wind Turbines
Engineers have designed and
tested a concept for
concrete towers to replace
the steel towers used for
wind turbines. The concrete
... > full story
Storage Power Plant on the Seabed
A group of scientists aims
to store electricity at the
bottom of the sea. The
energy will be stored with
the help of high water
pressure. ... > full story
New Battery Design Could Help Solar and Wind Power the Grid
Researchers have designed a
low-cost, long-life battery
that could enable solar and
wind energy to become major
suppliers to the electrical
grid. ... > full story
NASA's Wind Mission Encounters 'SLAMS' Waves
To tease out what happens at
that boundary of the
magnetosphere and to better
understand how radiation and
energy from the sun can
cross it and move closer to
... > full story
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Innovative Self-Cooling, Thermoelectric System Consumes No Electricity
April 11, 2013 — Researchers have produced a prototype of a self-cooling thermoelectric device that achieves “free” cooling of over 30ºC in devices that give off heat. It is a piece of equipment that ... > full story -
Ionic Thrusters Generate Efficient Propulsion in Air
April 3, 2013 — Thrusters powered by ionic wind may be an efficient alternative to conventional atmospheric propulsion technologies. When a current passes between two electrodes -- one thinner than the other -- it ... > full story -
Discovery Opens Door to Efficiently Storing and Reusing Renewable Energy
March 28, 2013 — Researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy. Their technology opens the door to homeowners and ... > full story -
Measuring Mars: The MAVEN Magnetometer
March 26, 2013 — When the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission begins its journey to the Red Planet in 2013, it will carry a sensitive magnetic-field instrument built and tested by a team at NASA's ... > full story -
Using Fluctuating Wind Power
March 25, 2013 — Incorporating wind power into existing power grids is challenging because fluctuating wind speed and direction means turbines generate power inconsistently. Coupled with customers' varying power ... > full story -
Breakthrough in Electricity Storage: New Large and Powerful Redox Flow Battery
March 18, 2013 — More and more electricity is being generated from intermittent sources of power, such as solar and wind energy. Powerful electric energy storage devices are necessary to level out corresponding ... > full story -
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Researchers Map out an Alternative Energy Future for New York
March 12, 2013 — A new study outlines a path to statewide renewable energy conversion, and away from natural gas and imported ... > full story -
Windmills at Sea Can Break Like Matches
February 26, 2013 — Medium-sized waves can break wind turbines at sea like matches. These waves occur even in small storms, which are quite common in the Norwegian ... > full story -
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Rethinking Wind Power
February 25, 2013 — “People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says an applied physicist. After all, gusts and ... > full story -
NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind
February 21, 2013 — The sun and its prodigious stream of solar particles, called the solar wind, can be particularly tricky to model since as the material streams to the outer reaches of the solar system it carries ... > full story
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