As we have seen in recent months, energy storage is becoming a pretty big deal. California has the country's first energy storage mandate in place, and plants like Solana in Arizona have started trying to incorporate storage in from the ...
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We're in the beginning of a world in which everything is connected to the Internet and with one another, while powerful yet relatively cheap computers analyze all that data for ways to improve lives. Toothbrushes tell your mirror to ...
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General Electric and partners BP and marine engineering company Oceaneering have jointly adapted existing medical x-ray machines to crawl along undersea pipelines looking for cracks or other problems. GE is of course a world leader in ...
At night, as cold settles in, lake ice creaks and groans. It's been excessively cold, and I camped exposed on the snow-swept surface. Other than the lack of vegetation and the sounds at night, you'd never know you were on a lake. It feels ...
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Landec Corporation, a materials science company that develops and markets innovative and patented products for healthy living applications in food and biomedical markets, is expanding commercial applications for its patented BreatheWay ...
Ultra-compact yellow LED for extreme demands in headlamps The yellow Oslon Compact LED from Osram immediately opens up new design options for turn indicators in vehicle forward lighting. With package dimensions of 1.5 mm x 1.9 mm x 0.7 mm ...
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With package dimensions of 1.5 mm x 1.9 mm x 0.7 mm the new version is so small and yet so powerful that it is ideal for use in light guide applications. This high-power LED, based on indium gallium nitride (InGaN), offers extremely ...
Tags: compact design, Plenty of light, premium automotive segment
In booths 901/903 at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Denver (3-7 March), Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc of Westerville OH, USA, which makes scientific sensors, instruments and systems for measurement and control, is to ...
Tags: scientific sensors, terahertz system, integrated platform
The overall precision surface grinder is a very effective machine tool that is completely capable of very well working to a fine tolerance of plus or minus 0.002 millimetres, or to around plus or minus one ten thousandth part of an inch in ...
Tired of winter yet? If you're a wheat farmer, your crop probably is, too. The last few weeks have seen hard red winter wheat conditions slumping in the heart of the nation’s Wheat Belt. Many areas have lacked the snow cover to keep ...
The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
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A new study has found that fluctuations in temperature during transportation and retail sale of leafy greens negatively impacts both the product's quality and microbial safety. In a study published in the February issue of Journal of Food ...
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US Northeast spot gas prices were trading above New York Harbor fuel oil prices Tuesday as a cold snap descended upon the eastern US. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line zone-6 New York spot gas was trading around $22/MMBtu Tuesday on ...
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Central Appalachian thermal coal prices closed mixed in the session, with only two trades seen Monday. A CAPP barge time spread was seen trading in the late morning, while a CAPP rail (CSX) quarterly swap went through after the 4 pm EST ...
Tags: CAPP Coal, Low Volume Session
(Phys.org) —On Jan. 28, 2014, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, witnessed its strongest solar flare since it launched in the summer of 2013. Solar flares are bursts of x-rays and light that stream out into space, ...
Tags: IRIS, Solar Flare, NASA, ATC