In major legislation passed at the end of August, California committed to creating a 100…
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MIT Energy Initiative Study Reports on the Future of Nuclear Energy
How can the world achieve the deep carbon emissions reductions that are necessary to slow…
Generating Electrical Power from Waste Heat
Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that…
New 28-GHz Transceiver Paves the Way for Future 5g Devices
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have designed and fabricated a tiny, but incredibly fast,…
New Control Strategy Helps Reap Maximum Power from Wind Farms
Every two and a half hours, a new wind turbine rises in the U.S. In…
Self-Assembling, Tunable Interfaces Found in Quantum Materials
Highly adaptive electronics could be created using quantum features A potential revolution in device engineering…
How Energy Storage Is Starting to Rewire the Electricity Industry
The market for energy storage on the power grid is growing at a rapid clip,…
Does Energy Storage Make the Electric Grid Cleaner?
Carbon-free energy: Is the answer blowing in the wind? Perhaps, but the wind doesn’t always…
Soft Target, Hard Problem: Keeping Surface Transportation Secure
Maintaining security on the U.S. surface transportation systems takes significant resources and manpower, both which tend to…
Circuit Simulation Methods Protect the Power Grid
In December 2015, Russian hackers allegedly pummeled Ukraine’s power grid, disrupting the flow of electricity…
