Photo: Xinhua/eyevine/Redux As smart meter installations wane in the United States, China has become the new leader in smart grid spending. China spent US $4.3 billion on smart grid investments in 2013 as the U.S. market contracted 33 ...
Tags: Grid Spending, digital smart meter, GTM, BNEF
“Of course we’re disappointed,” National Lighting Bureau Executive Director John Bachner said in response to third-quarter 2013 performance of the NEMA Lighting Systems Index (LSI). The Index declined 1.6% from ...
Tags: miniature-lamp shipments, operating costs, improving lighting quality
(Phys.org) —You use crystals everyday: sugar in your coffee, the active ingredient in hand warmers, maybe a diamond stud in your ear. A crystal is built of atoms arranged in a repeat pattern in all three dimensions. X-rays are good ...
Tags: Atomic Displacement, Crystal, NSLS-II, CSC
February 17, 2014 The County of Maui and its partners will present a two-day conference on the Valley Isle in March 2014 to explore the challenges and opportunities in our nation's transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has set its policy agenda for 2014, with the competition regulator setting its sights on deceptive online pricing and low-cost imports as two major issues facing the retail industry ...
Tags: retail industry, ACCC, imports
New Kongsberg information management system for the world’s largest cruise ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 Dragutin Radobuljac, the Chief Electrical Engineer on Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s mega cruise ship the Allure of the Seas, ...
Tags: Information Management System, Cruise Ship, RCCL, RCUs
While everyone loves a good mystery, keeping engineers guessing as to which breakthroughs will shape future electronic component design can only benefit the makers of antacids. And while it’s hard to predict that a given research ...
Tags: RF Circuits, Graphene-Based
Electron microscopy and spectroscopy are great tools for peering into matter on the molecular scale. But they’re not terribly effective if that matter happens to be biological. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago ...
Tags: Clear Image, Biomolecule, liquid stage, microscope
Nissan North America has issued a voluntary recall on 13,535 Frontier vehicles of certain model year 2012 through 2014 North America due to circuit breaker problem. Circuit breakers in the affected vehicles have not been installed ...
Tags: Nissan, Frontier Vehicles
Team sees change in set point in neuromuscular synapses Scientists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have found a clue as to why muscles weaken with age. In a study published Feb. ...
Tags: Muscle, Ben Eaton, clue, exhaustion
The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering has awarded UCLA researchers Dr. Daniel Lu (Brentwood) and Dr. Reggie Edgerton (Bel Air) a $6 million, five-year grant to explore new therapies for the approximately 273,000 ...
Tags: UCLA, Spinal-Cord Injuries, New Therapies, lower spine.
Cochlear implants are among the most successful hearing devices out there. They have been around for about 30 years and more than 220 000 people worldwide enjoy restored hearing because of them. But they require clunky hardware mounted onto ...
Tags: Hearing Device, MIT, piezoelectric sensor, MEMS
The National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) is a Brazilian federal autarchy, linked to MDIC, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Commerce. In Brazil, certification bodies must be ...
Tags: INMETRO, certification
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the same mass, according to new research. While individual nanotubes are ...
The UK’s University of Leeds has fabricated what is claimed to be the world’s most powerful terahertz (THz) laser chip, exceeding 1 Watt output power from a quantum cascade laser (QCL) (Lianhe Li et al, ‘Terahertz quantum ...
Tags: Laser Chip, Electronics