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Smart Meters Save $$$
Smart meters are small
computers that provide
real-time information on how
much electricity is being
used by each customer and
when, and can relay
information back to the head
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Turning Trash Into Power
A new kind of waste digester
uses two different strains
of bacteria in different
tanks. This would normally
take place in the same
environment, but
microbiologists have now
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Bringing Sunlight Inside
Photovoltaic panels have a
new design: concentric
circles that focus the sun's
rays on miniaturized
modules. Having the panels
automatically sense sunlight
and turn towards it also
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Saving Electricity And Saving Money
A photosensor paired with a
dimming ballast controls
fluorescent lighting and
adjusts lights all over the
user's home. A
microcontroller
automatically calibrates
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Engineers And Meteorologists Catalogue Weather Activity To Devise Green Energy Plan
Researchers installed weather stations to track the best locations for taking advantage of renewable resources. Tracking sunlight exposure helps pinpoint the ideal location for solar panels, and ... > more -
Environmental Engineers Detect Turbines' Turbulence Effects
Wind farms may have an impact on local weather patterns. As environmental engineers have discovered, wind farm propellers create a lot of turbulence in their wake, mixing air up and down with effects ... > more -
Engineer Designs More Efficient, Quieter Bus
An engineer has designed an electric bus that runs on battery power. Putting motors in each wheel makes a transmission and driveshaft unnecessary, and allows the bus to ride closer to the ground for ... > more -
Chemists Create Self-assembling Conductive Rubber
Polymer chemists have created a flexible, indestructible material, called metal rubber, that can be heated, frozen, washed or doused with jet fuel, and still retain its electricity-conducting ... > more -
Electrical Engineering Student Designs Early-Warning System for Harmful Gases
Respirators save lives for the first responders who wear them, but their cartridges need to be changed often. Without knowing it, users could be inhaling deadly gases. Electrical engineering student ... > more -
Electrical Engineers Monitor Environment with Robotic Sensors
Fleets of robotic sensors, networking through thin cables, can track environmental changes such as biogeochemical cycles or loss of biodiversity, helping to manage wild lands. The technology is the ... > more -
Automotive Engineers Team Up to Improve Energy-Saving Technology
Mechanical and electrical engineers at DaimlerChrysler, General Motors and BMW have jointly developed a hybrid-vehicle technology that shuts the internal combustion engine off when the vehicle stops. ... > more -
Vascular Surgeons Lower Blood Pressure with Implanted Device
A new cell phone-sized implant can keep blood pressure in check from within the chest, just like a pacemaker controls heartbeats. When the device detects a rise in pressure, it sends electrical ... > more -
Electrical Engineers And Meteorologists Devise Method To Measure Strength Of Lightning Strikes On Tall Buildings
Electrical engineers developed a mathematical equation to measure the electrical current strength of lightning as it strikes tall buildings. The researchers developed new ways to prepare estimates of ... > more -
Materials Scientists Develop Light-up Tents
Material research scientists have made electroluminescent technology elastic and supple enough to be knitted and incorporated into canvas tent panels. An electric field is produced across the ... > more
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