U.S. officials are planning to announce Monday whether automakers should be required to equip new cars and light trucks with technology that enables vehicles to communicate with each other to prevent collisions. Such vehicle-to-vehicle ...
Tags: Car-to-Car Communication, Wi-Fi, GPS function, Qualcomm
When it comes to storing energy on the grid, giant batteries are the only game in town. Now, a number of companies are building mechanical systems that use air as the storage medium. U.K.-based Highview Power Storage last week said that ...
Tags: Liquefied Air, Electronics
Two teams, both in Singapore have created two different types of thermal cloaking devices. In their papers, both published in Physical Review Letters, the teams describe how they went about creating their devices and offer suggestions as to ...
Tags: Heat Cloaking Device, Physical Review Letter, heat diffusion
In studying a material that prevents marine life from sticking to the bottom of ships, researchers led by chemist Joseph DeSimone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified a surprising replacement for the only ...
Tags: UNC, PFPE, Ion Battery, team
Dirty diesel is the most common form of electricity generation throughout Caribbean island nations, but that will change if billionaire Richard Branson has anything to do with it. Branson is using his private island in the British Virgin ...
Tags: NRG Energy, LED lighting, Swap Diesel, Caribbean
Volvo Trucks has made in-cab LED lighting standard on all vehicles, and is offering LED headlamps on its VNL and VNX models. Volvo says the LED interior lights and headlamps consume one-eighth the energy required by standard incandescent ...
Tags: LED Lighting, Volvo
LG Electronics has introduced the third generation of its low-end L series, with three new smartphones that all run Android 4.4 or KitKat. The South Korean company has a history of launching its products ahead of Mobile World Congress, ...
Green Automotive Company, a state-ofthe- art niche vehicle design, engineering, manufacturing, and sales company, driving innovation in the use of cutting edge zero and low emission technologies, today announced that its UK subsidiary ...
Tags: Electric Cars, E-Care Program
There's no denying that building the world's smallest battery is a notable achievement. But while they may lay the groundwork for future battery technologies, today such microbatteries are mostly laboratory curiosities. Developing a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
This winter the UK has been hit by some of the most tempestuous weather conditions leaving thousands of businesses and homes without power and many out of pocket. Following dramatic 'Battered Britain' headlines, it is becoming ...
Tags: POWER
The phrase "An army marches on its stomach," often attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, underscores the importance of logistics in the military. And in the 21st century, keeping up the supply of diesel fuel is one of the most challenging ...
The microgrid market is expected to expand rapidly over the next 10 years, bringing with it increased demand for energy storage associated with these systems. Energy storage systems (ESSs) deliver services to microgrids similar to the ...
Tags: microgrid, resource optimization, solar photovoltaic, energy storage
Is it just me or do you find yourself having to transfer fluids frequently? Pouring gas is usually a one way thing. What if you need to recover that gas or put it back in the can? I have tried hand pumps with no luck. Recently I set out on ...
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BASF today inaugurated its Research and Development Laboratory and Application Technology Center for Battery Materials in Amagasaki, Japan. The facility, located in the Amagasaki Research Incubation Center (ARIC), is BASF’s first ...
Tags: BASF, Battery Materials
Streamlight is just one of the brands you know and you trust. You know you might pay a little more, but you get a lot better quality with their products. Well it would seem, but that was until I saw the reviews on Amazon. I can’t ...
Tags: Streamlight, Flashlight