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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 -
Cassini Sheds Light on Cosmic Particle Accelerators
February 19, 2013 During a chance encounter with what appears to be an unusually strong blast of solar wind at Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected particles being accelerated to ultra-high energies. This is ... > full story -
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Endurance Test of an Offshore Wind Turbine in the Laboratory
February 14, 2013 Scientists are testing the complex control system of wind turbines under real conditions in the laboratory before they are built into offshore wind energy plants. This way, software and hardware ... > full story -
New Doppler Radar Wind Profiler Will Replace Old System Near Shuttle Landing Facility
February 12, 2013 As NASA moves forward next year to place instruments on the International Space Station to take ocean-surface wind speed and direction measurements, the Ground Systems Development and Operations ... > full story -
Spotting the Invisible Cracks in Wind Turbines
February 12, 2013 A new approach is available for real-time monitoring of the structural health of wind turbine components during exposure to ... > full story -
New 'Retention Model' Explains Enigmatic Ribbon at Edge of Solar System
February 5, 2013 Since its Oct. 2008 launch, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer has provided images of the invisible interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space. Particles emanating from ... > full storyMore:
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