if you like on the ESP250 data sheet. ith the introduction of the ESP250, Imergy has broadened its product portfolio to include a product for every major energy storage market segment and application.
Microgrid implementation, peaker plant replacement, transmission and distribution investment deferral, backup power system delivery, and renewables management are possible with these new batteries.
Geli Energy Operating system and Energy management applications will be used to manage the microgrid. Las Positas College in Livermore will be the site of the flow batteries installation,
where there is already a 2. 35 MW solar array that generates about 55%of the campus electricity.
and shared with other educational institutions containing data so they can evaluate the benefits of installing
Solar, software and storage are making distributed energy possible in the same way that semiconductors,
software applications and digital storage paved the way for distributed computing. With the right storage technology and software the management of microgrids is seamless, safe
and very easy for the customer to manage. Projects like this are setting a template for our industry,
The interior is much more 21st century too, with big comfy seats, air suspension, infotainment screen,
since last June. he app is currently available for download on ios and Android. With the the new Bridj app
For example atie Pasciucco, 34, an account manager at a software company, is a typical Boston commuter.
switching from a Web-based booking system with predetermined routes to a model that driven by the app
The app can be found in both the Apple and Android app stores. It allows users to book their trips hours
or days in advance. he app will find a trip that meets your needs, said Kelly. ou select a trip,
Kelly said users of the service will notice similar pickup and drop-off locations for now,
but as the algorithm learns their habits, those locations may begin to shift. Bridj is one of many means in this Boston market of transit services.
A new partnership between Google and Motiv Power works as follows: n Mountain view shuttle buses will be free for the public
The company has a goal of making materials for about 30 million cell phone batteries by 2016.
Cell phone batteries are notorious for having to be recharged frequently which inconveniences and irritates customers.
when people buy new cell phones. Solid Energy launched in 2012 and has raised $4. 5 million.
including Google, for its roject Ara. This is a very ambitious effort to bring modular, customizable smartphones to billions of people.
It sounds as if, potentially, the ARA phone could allow more than one battery, if that was preferred.
T he Ara platform is designed to permit hot-swapping of modules without requiring you to power down the phone
which means that you could slide out the camera and replace it with a battery
So, if the Ara phone is launched, could it be possible to have four times the battery life of a current, conventional cell phone?
That Google would choose Solid Energy as a potential partner for such a huge project seems to speak well of the startup new battery materials. he reason wee focusing on the materials side is that it where we can add the most value,
not in manufacturing, explained CEO Dr. Qichao Hu. An article in MIT Technology Review says Solid Energy battery technology is appropriate for smartphones,
but probably not for electric cars, because it can be recharged enough times. Some people drive the same car for ten years,
The core of Calgren plant is an anaerobic digester built by DVO, which is based in Wisconsin.
all at the same time, could lead to an energy bottleneck that could require tens of thousands of dollars in service upgrades.
which can support up to ten EV chargers without costly infrastructure upgrades to the building by doling out power in a smarter way.
%According to GE, the Digital Wind farm makes use of the industrial internet o address a longstanding need for greater flexbility in renewable power. very business including our own at GE
Naturally, with more data and more turbines producing more data, the system can become more advanced and intelligent, leading to increased efficiency.
and our vision for the industry is to use today data to predict tomorrow outcomes,
added Bolze. y harnessing the full power of the Industrial Internet, we can create a world where wind farms learn,
A lakeside lifeguard station in The netherlands was used as the site for the first application of bioconcrete.
and operation software modeling firm NAPA and supported by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,
and are using efficiency data to assess risk and return, and inform credit approvals and resale and scrapping decisions.
as shown in this nifty Youtube video (don miss the cartoon version, too): Hook up the floating engine to a generator,
to be precise source for hydrogen that the company has been messing around with (visit our sister site Gas2. org for more coverage).
That provides much more flexibility for site selection than offshore wind turbines which can easily run into aesthetic obstacles.
Think of energy like you think about an iphone The first and most important driver is the argument
Then we add in electric cars, which are now on the same path converting a staid, slow moving industry (traditional auto companies like GM) into a disruptive technology-driven one (innovators like Tesla).
Add in the need to be clean not just for climate change reasons but for local air quality and the choice developing countries will face will be between large, old, dirty,
battery manufacturers, copper and lithium miners, electronics producers, software developers, electric engine makers, smart grid builders and, of course, solar and wind power manufacturers, installers and financiers.
Shell and Exxon don see Google and Apple as competitors, which is just why incumbents so often lose.
and Google who are both developing battery and car opportunities, with a close eye on the technology integration opportunity.
#Google street view Now Monitors Urban Air pollution Wee come to rely on Google street view for everything from roads to hiking paths to coral reefs,
Tech startup Aclima just announced a partnership with Google earth Outreach to equip Google street view cars with its mobile sensor platform.
Google, and EPA will empower people to eeurban air quality like never before, and could turn Google maps into platform for mapping environmental air quality against public health standards.
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
The cars spent 750 hours of drive time gathering 150 million data points on nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon
which were correlated then with data from EPA stationary measurement sites. So far, EPA has relied on an extensive network of these stationary devices in urban areas to measure harmful airborne pollutants
Google earth Outreach Program Manager. his partnership with Aclima enables us to take the next steps in our pilot project to utilize Street view existing infrastructure
and test Google maps as an environmental sensing platform for mapping the environment. Aclima Denver air quality The Denver pilot returned interesting results.
and breathe in an entirely new way by integrating Aclima mobile sensing platform with Google maps and Street view cars, said Davida Herzl,
While the Google street view partnership could change the way we live and breathe outside, Aclima is focused also acutely on how we live
Aclima Sensory Science system connects stationary sensors with scalable hardware and software to generate billions of data points across multiple environmental factors,
and can monitor air quality either in one office building or across an entire city. For several years, 500 connected Aclima sensors have been monitoring air quality
and analyzing 500 million data points daily across a global network composed of 21 Google offices around the world.
Aclima Denver pilot program air quality data image via Aclima The data covers temperature humidity, noise,
light, and indoor emissions; and will be used by Google to evaluate environmental factors within their offices
and inform future workplace design decisions to boost employee health and productivity. e strive to create the healthiest and best possible work environments for Googlers,
Google Real estate and Workplace Services. ur vision is to create buildings that seamlessly support the people who inhabit them.
Lewis is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
and liquid capture media in the same platform says Lewis. It is also quite flexible in that both the core
At the moment the sensors don't provide tactile feedback to the user. Instead they are connected to an array of LEDS.
#Robots learn to cook by watching Youtube When it comes to teaching robots how to do things,
This is one of the key parts of figuring out machine learning: How can you program a robot
as researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies are finding out,
is Youtube. More specifically, cooking tutorials on Youtube. By watching these videos, robots are able to learn the complicated series of grasping
and manipulation motions required for cooking by observing what humans do on the Internet.""We chose cooking videos
because everyone has done it, "said UMD professor of computer science and director of the UMIACS Computer Vision Lab Yiannis Aloimonos."
"But cooking is complex in terms of manipulation, the steps involved and the tools you use. If you want to cut a cucumber, for example,
"The robot uses several key systems in order to learn from Youtube videos. Computer vision, with two different recognition systems, allows the robot to visually process how the presenter grabs something,
artificial intelligence processes that information, and finally language parsing helps it understand spoken commands and translate it into an action.
In this way, the robot can gather individual steps from various videos and assign them rules according to its programming,
putting them together in the correct order.""We are trying to create a technology so that robots eventually can interact with humans,
"The team will be presenting their research at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial intelligence Conference in Austin, Texas, on January 29, 2015 1
While this operates in concert to circumvent the injured site on the spine allowing the patient--theoretically--to use their limbs it can also be used to monitor electrical impulses from the brain in real-time allowing the researchers to accurately gauge the patient's intention to move before the signal is translated into motion.
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called tarry Sky, in November of 2014 near Amsterdam,
where they lit up more than 300 LED streetlights at two different sites. Their plant power technology is also being used to power the company headquarters in Wageningen.
Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
www. plantpower. eu or visit their website listed in the sources. More and more energy innovations seem to be emerging every single day,
showed promising results in a mouse model of type 1 diabetes. Researchers hope to see similar success in subsequent clinical trials in humans. he whole system can be personalized to account for a diabetic weight
which researchers inserted a core of solid insulin and enzymes, which are designed specially to sense glucose.
A camera underneath the hologram captures user interaction, allowing the dots to respond to being ouched.
The revolutionary device looks like an ordinary tablet, but it is packed with cutting-edge technology. The experimental pill works in the same way as gastric pacemakers to suppress appetite.
Once swallowed, the high-tech tablet is controlled externally using a special mobile phone app. When it reaches the stomach a few minutes later
A powerful magnetic patch is applied then to the skin to draw the pill into position over the site where the vagus nerve runs through the abdomen-near the top of the stomach just under the breastbone.
which is played through earphones connected to a signal generator the size of a mobile phone. Clinical trial results suggest it can reduce tinnitus loudness by an average of about 40 per cent.
and historical sites. yber archaeologistsare busy making digital 3d models of items thought to have been destroyed,
They use photogrammetry a technique that uses software to transform 2d photos into 3d images as well as photos from the public, the BBC reported.
The website invites people to submit photographs they have taken, which are sorted then and rebuilt in 3d by volunteers and experts alike.
including a metal gate, lion sculpture and intricate painted tablet. The lion sculpture, which once stood in the museum,
and widespread looting of sites such as the Palace of Ashurnasipal II at Nimrud occurred, with fears that ISIS may destroy the ancient city of Palmyra.
#Game over for joysticks? Fove virtual reality headset lets players aim and interact with characters using just their EYES Gamers could soon be dropping their joysticks
and pushing their mouse to one side as eye-control becomes the latest way to play games.
Using the movement of the head and eyes, gamers using the Fove virtual reality device will be able to control games with the blink of an eye.
The unique tracking technology will let a player use their eyes to control guns and tools, stare to pull up dashboard or information panels,
and emotionally interact with characters to attract their attention. By making eye contact with virtual characters possible
The device combines a 2560x1440 VR display with both eye-tracking and motion tracking, allowing users to fully explore 360-degree virtual worlds using both their head and eyes.
The device projects the wearer's gaze into 3d space enabling them to quickly and accurately communicate with
and more natural input than with traditional mouse, keyboard, or controller as these were invented originally for 2d games and applications.
and translate these into user-intention and emotion. By adding this extra recognition we are bringing real human connection into virtual reality.'
'The founders now plan to work with content developers to provide more games and films for Fove users.
At its core is a tiny raftmade up of three ubesats which are essentially tiny spacecraft that can be launched relatively cheaply.
In total, the core of the vehicle weighs 22lbs (10kg) and is just 11.8-inches (30cm) high and 3. 9-inches (10cm) wide-about the size of a loaf of bread.
chief executive of The Planetary Society Bill Nye said in a webcast after the launch. On this particular flight,
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
The chart displays letters that get progressively smaller in size. The benchmark, and vision that is considered healthy and'normal,
A basis for'normal'was determined using a large database of test results. By comparison 20/40 vision means the test subject sees at 20ft what a'normal'person sees at 40ft.
Elsewhere, ioptik announced at last year's CES it had developed contact lenses that allow the wearer to see high-definition virtual screens.
In particular, the system lets them see projected digital information, such as driving directions and video calls. The tiny'screens,
'which are the invention of Washington-based group Innovega, sit directly on a users'eyeballs
and work with a pair of lightweight glasses. Google is also working on'smart lenses'that contain a control circuit, an image capture component and an image sensor.
The system can be linked wirelessly to a mobile phone for data access and to issue commands via audio,
although it is unclear if the lens would be powered wirelessly or have wired a link to a battery. l
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so'far back'in the cosmos is rare.
The discovery was made by Nasa as it was combing through data from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise),
#The gadgets that give you SUPERPOWERS: Spiderman-style gloves, lenses with super sight and Iron man suits become a reality By Sarah Griffiths and Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
000 A Japanese electronics firm is selling a 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon that can be controlled by an iphone,
A company called Emotiv adapted a $499 (£324) gaming headset that lets wearers control on-screen and physical objects with their brain as part of a racing game.
A riveris wired up to the electroencephalography (EEG) headset and the device is trained to read their unique brain patterns.
They first clear their mind to train the headset to their neutral state and then think of a repetitive task that will be associated with driving the car.
Once the headset has been calibrated, the game begins and the driver can control the shoebox-sized vehicle by thinking about their repetitive task.
The Emotive headsets are embedded with sensors that record electrical activity along the wearer scalp, forehead and above the right ear.
and these patterns are converted to commands using a brain-computer interface. The technology is currently a proof-of-concept
and there are no immediate plans to release the game and headset. However, the EPOC Emotiv headset is available from $499 (£324)
and it will work with existing brain-computer interface games and software that work with EEG readings.
The Emotiv headset used for the demonstration is called Insight and is available to buy now. WOLVERINE-SUPER-HEALING POWERSIN the X men films, Wolverine has mutant powers
which mean he can heal himself-even when he shot, or is thrown from a building. And researchers in the US are working on an implant that would make this useful superhuman ability to heal a reality.
In the body peripheral nervous system, neuromodulation monitors the status of organs and manages how they respond to disease.
By electronically recording data about individual's physical attributes such as fingerprints or iris patterns, security and law enforcement services can quickly identify people with a high degree of accuracy.
and public anxiety around having such sensitive data captured, stored, and accessed. We have researched this area by presenting people with potential future scenarios that involved biometrics.
For example, implementing biometric identification in smart phones and other everyday objects such as computers or cars could make people see the technology as useful and easy to operate.
This may increase their willingness to adopt such systems.''I could imagine this becoming normalised to a point where you don't really worry about it,
'The implementation of biometric systems is not just dependent on user acceptance or resistance. Before iris-scanning technology could be introduced in the EU,
major data protection and privacy considerations would have to be made. The EU has a robust legal framework on privacy and data protection.
These are recognised as fundamental rights and so related laws are among the highest ranking. Biometric data, such as iris scans, are treated often as special due to the sensitivity of the information they can contain.
The very fact that long-range iris scanners can capture data without the collaboration of their subject also creates legal issues.
and the existence of their rights surrounding the data. Another issue is how the data is kept secure, particularly in the case of iris-scanning by objects such as smart phones.
Scans stored on the device and/or on the cloud for purposes of future authentication would legally require robust security protection.
Data stored on the cloud tends to move around between different servers and countries, which makes preventing unauthorised access more difficult.
And processing data accurately is another principle of EU data protection law. Even if we do find ourselves subject to unwanted iris-scanning from 40ft (12 metres),
#Nasa joins US government project to create'Google for the deep web'that could uncover cyber criminals,
paedophiles and drug dealers in the online underworld The deep web is a hive of illegal activity,
But because it is buried'so deep it is considered out of the reach of mainstream search engines and many law enforcement agencies-until now.
'When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren't the whole story,
The Internet contains a vast trove of information-sometimes called the'Deep Web'-that isn't indexed by search engines:
According to Nasa, scientists could also use it to search for images and data from spacecraft.
for example, help catalog the vast amounts of data NASA spacecraft deliver on a daily basis.'We're developing next-generation search technologies that understand people, places,
'We're augmenting Web crawlers to behave like browsers-in other words, executing scripts and reading ads in ways that you would
'This information is catalogued normally not by search engines, 'Mattmann said. Additionally, a standard Web search doesn't get much information from images and videos,
but Memex can recognize what's in this content and pair it with searches on the same subjects.
The video and image search capabilities of Memex could one day benefit space missions that take photos, videos and other kinds of imaging data with instruments such as spectrometers.
Scientists analyzing imaging data from Earth-based missions that monitor phenomena such as snowfall and soil moisture could similarly benefit.
Memex would also enhance the search for published scientific data, so that scientists can be better aware of
Memex would make PDF documents more easily searchable and allow users to more easily arrive at the information they seek.
Awareness of existing publications also helps program managers to assess the impact of spacecraft data.
All of the code written for Memex is open-source. JPL is one of 17 teams working on it as part of the DARPA initiative.
and analyzing large amounts of data, with defense, government and civilian applications. JPL was one of 24 groups involved.'
'We are developing open source, free, mature products and then enhancing them using DARPA investment and easily transitioning them via our roles to the scientific community,
'Today's web searches use a centralised, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the internet with the same set of tools for all queries.'
'But common search practices miss information in the deep web-the parts of the web not indexed by standard commercial search engines
-and ignore shared content across pages.''Memex was designed to overcome these challenges by extending'the reach of current search capabilities
The software scours all aspects of the web-including those hidden in the dark net-to create data maps that might reveal clues about illegal activity.
or porn sites featuring the same email addresses or phone numbers. These patterns could reveal links that human investigators could miss,
search results and interface tools to individual users and specific subject areas, and not the other way around,'said Chris White, Darpa program manager.'
Ease of use for non-programmers is essential.''The Memex program gets its name from a hypothetical device described in'As We May Think'-a 1945 article for The Atlantic Monthly.
It would store and automatically cross-reference all of the user's books, records and other information.
'would let users quickly search large amounts of information, and gain insights from it. Targeting the deep web is also an initiative being developed in the UK.
In December the UK government said a specialist unit was being set up to hunt down paedophiles using the dark net to share child pornography.
and communications to trace the'digital footprints'left by the users who share them. Prime minister David cameron said the new unit is aimed at'shining a light on the web's darkest corners'as he announced a package of measures to tackle online child abuse.
The National Crime Agency estimates that around 20,000 people from the UK use secret or encrypted networks each day.
The dark net consists of a network of encoded websites that sit behind the publicly available websites
and cannot be found with normal search engines. It came to prominence in 2012 when the FBI made a series of raids on Silk road-an online marketplace described as the'ebay for illegal drugs'.
'Figures compiled by the National Crime Agency suggest that use of the dark net rose by two thirds in 2012.
Hidden capabilities that let users email and host file storage through encrypted and anonymous networks are provided by services the The Onion Router (Tor).
Tor users currently represent 0. 18 per cent of the total number of internet uses in the UK.
However, in a recent investigation, GCHQ and the NCA were able to track down a British man who had been maintaining chat rooms
and websites in the Far east and Eastern europe that were used to share child pornography around the world.
and was using software to keep himself anonymous. Analysis by experts at GCHQ allowed them to trace the man
'The US Department of agriculture panel, which has been given the task of overhauling the guidelines every five years,
#NSA testing smartphones that can tell who you are by the way you write: Handwriting recongition system The NSA is set to begin using smartphone software that can recognise a person by the way they write.
The software, called Mandrake and developed by Lockheed martin, verifies a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual's finger strokes on a touch screen.
Experts say it could be far more reliable than traditional passwords, and it virtually impossible to fake.'
'Nobody else has the same strokes,'John Mears, senior fellow for Lockheed IT and Security Solutions, told Nextgov. com.'People can forge your handwriting in two dimensions,
'We've done work with the NSA for secure gesture authentication as a technique for using smartphones,
The firm says it is a'defense-grade secure workspace solution for ios and Android devices that keeps all corporate email, browsing,
documents and applications encrypted, contained, and UNDER IT control no matter who owns the device.''It will enable smartphone
and tablet users to authenticate into Fixmo Safezone with a simple, user-defined gesture, which has been proven to be more secure and far easier to use than a 14-character complex,
randomly generated password.''The system potentially could be used for emergency responders who often don't have the time
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