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Wind Power Need Not Be Backed Up By An Equal Amount Of Reserve Power
December 7, 2007 — Wind power need not be backed up by an equal amount of reserve power, according to new research. The production of wind power varies and is harder to forecast than the fluctuations in electricity ... > full story -
Hinode Reveals New Insights About The Origin Of Solar Wind
December 6, 2007 — Images from telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun's magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on ... > full story -
Voyager 2 Spacecraft Set to Reach Space Milestone
November 27, 2007 — Using a computer model simulation a physicist has predicted that the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2 will cross the "termination shock" -- a spherical shell around the solar system that marks ... > full story -
Wind Energy
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Energy and the Environment
Electricity
Energy Technology
Environmental Science
Connecting Wind Farms Can Make A More Reliable And Cheaper Power Source
November 21, 2007 — Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists. ... > full story -
Analysis Of Solar Wind Helps Illuminate How Our Solar System Evolved
October 30, 2007 — Analyzing the mix of hydrogen, oxygen and noble gases found in the sun can answer one of the biggest questions of the universe: How did our solar system evolve? Scientists have marked the beginnings ... > full story -
Could Electricity Grid Become A Type Of Internet?
October 24, 2007 — In the future everyone who is connected to the electricity grid will be able to upload and download packages of electricity to and from this network. At least, that is one of the transformations the ... > full story -
Renewable Energy
Wind Energy
Energy and the Environment
Energy Technology
Solar Energy
Environmental Science
Dealing With Wind Variability On The Wind Farm
October 19, 2007 — As Texas' electric grid operator prepares to add power lines for carrying future wind-generated energy, an electrical engineer at is developing improved methods for determining the extent to which ... > full story -
Steep Sloped Roofs Lasted Through Katrina Better Than Low Sloped Roofs
October 10, 2007 — A study of roofing damage incurred by Gulf Coast structures following Hurricane Katrina has found that buildings with steep sloped roofs held up better against the high-wind storm damage than ... > full story -
Chance Encounter With Comet Nets Surprising Results
October 1, 2007 — Comets are made of the most primitive stuff in the solar system. As hunks of rock and ice that never coalesced into more planets, they give researchers clues to the evolution of solar systems. So a ... > full story -
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Energy and the Environment
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Recycling Wind Turbines
September 21, 2007 — Wind power could become one of the greenest alternative energy resources we have, but only if replacement and recycling of windturbines is taken into account in assessing their environmental impact, ... > full story
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