#Boy, 15, held in NI over Talktalk hack Metropolitan Police said a house had been searched in County Antrim on Monday afternoon at about 16:20 GMT.
The boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences. He has been taken into custody at Antrim police station
#Electricity from the air-Drayson's big idea Free energy from the air. It sounds like a fantasy but that is
The technology involves harvesting radio frequency energy from existing wireless and broadcast networks, from 4g to digital television.
it doesn't require us to transmit any extra energy, it's recycling the energy
which isn't being used at the moment.""The technology was demonstrated in the lecture theatre at the Royal Institution,
Lord Drayson first showed how much radio frequency energy was in the room, and then used his Freevolt system to power a loudspeaker.
He also demonstrated the first product to use the energy system, a personal air pollution monitor called the Cleanspace tag.
A battery in the device is recharged continually by a Freevolt energy harvester. The technology which has been patented, could now be used by organisations such as supermarkets
The same thing could be achieved with a battery and low-power transmitter.""He says there are also questions to answer about the possible impact on the mobile networks,
suggesting that that the"free"energy might actually be needed for communication. I put it to Lord Drayson that the networks might demand a fee.
but have struggled to produce energy with enough efficiency to make the technology commercially viable. Now this British company believes it has found a solution.
Cigarette pack reactors Rao team has created 3d printed designs for their next goal: flat-chip bioreactors the size of cigarette packs for continuous processing.
and energy to perform. What are these functions? Well, you're performing some of them right now.
the resulting device would have to be loaded enormous with multitudes of transistors that would require far more energy."
however, many more memristors would be required to build more complex neural networks to do the same kinds of things we can do with barely any effort and energy,
and memory storage devices users will continue to seek long after the proliferation of digital transistors predicted by Moore's Law becomes too unwieldy for conventional electronics."
other processes, such as activated carbon extraction, require great energy to push large quantities of water through filters. n our technology,
which was understood already to help convert fat into energy, and to be involved in brain formation,
Small molecules also are key elements in technologies like solar cells and LEDS. However, small molecules are notoriously difficult to make in a lab. Traditionally
electrical devices (pacemakers or defibrillators) or drugs (eg beta blockers. However, these methods are relatively crude: they can stop
and to influence the amount of energy and carbon the plant dedicated to producing these natural compounds.
and flavanoids and to devote more of energy to doing this in fruit. Introducing both Atmyb12
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
electricity, heating, and, perhaps most worryingly, airplanes and trains. Boisvert told Infiltrate he was concerned initially that a deadly July 2013 train crash in Spain was caused by a hacker (it turned out to be human error.
Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett immediately ordered inspectors to check on similar dam foundations throughout the province.
"The sound energy dissipates in a ring around the plane, parallel to the ground, so that no shockwave hits the ground.
Porsche showed the prototype of its first battery-powered sports car, titled"Mission E."Similar in appearance to its iconic 911,
one-step process involving electricity and DNA. The technique could give rise to a proliferation of new so-called point-of-care medical tests blood tests that can be performed in the field, possibly even by patients themselves,
and H2 and CO2 as energy and carbon sources to produce acetate. The folks at Berkeley Lab have been all over S. ovata for artificial photosynthesis (our bad for missing their April 16 press release) through a connection with UC Berkeley Kavli Energy Nanosciences Institute.
The new process starts by harvesting sunlight with a nanostructure of wires made from silicon and titanium:
#Solar Important Part of Energy Mix in Australia olar is playing an increasingly important role in Australia energy mix,
said the CEO of the country Clean energy Finance Corporation, adding that both the residential and commercial solar industries are ramping up.
Oliver Yates, CEO of the Clean energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), spoke at the Australian Solar Council Solar 2015 Conference in Melbourne,
y financing the innovative use of solar technologies across a broad range of industries. The country already has 4 GW of rooftop solar PV installed
as more businesses experience the benefits of solar in helping them bring down their energy and operating costs over time,
Mr Yates said. he emergence of battery technology in particular is likely to be a game changer for commercial solar,
Solar homes typically use solar for about 30 per cent of their electricity needs. With battery storage
this could be boosted to over 70 per cent, an indication of the scale of the potential benefits for commercial solar.
Brazil Energy Minister Eduardo Braga announced the move on Wednesday of last week, adding that the country government will also ask states to reduce the goods flow tax on the energy generated by solar. he state of Sao paulo endorsed our proposal
and is leading a process that is a milestone for Brazilian solar generation Braga said in a speech to Congress. ax exemption will enable this source to be competitive,
and businesses return to the grid. he initiative is a positive sign to spur distributed generation in Brazil,
As for the possible threshold of 2 GW by 2024, figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance calculate that approximately 700
000 homes and small businesses would have to install solar panels to reach the figure. Solar power is already beginning to be a hope for the future in Brazil,
A 350 MW floating solar plant was announced earlier in April, and a few days ago Minas gerais, the southeastern state of Brazil, announced that it will start the process to auction bids for the development of solar PV power plants P
#New Battery technology Will Fundamentally Change The Way The Grid Operates Originally published on Energy Post.
By Michael Mcelfreshthe spread of cost-effective batteries, such as Tesla new Powerwall, will fundamentally change the way the electric grid operates,
writes Michael Mcelfresh of Santa clara University. Combined with other innovations, batteries in homes and businesses will transform how people
and businesses treat electricity. Along the way, these batteries will improve the efficiency and reliability of the grid overall.
Right now, most power is generated at large power plants and distributed to consumers. Electric energy storage allows a two-way flow of power
which offers some significant advantages for support of the power grid. For example, storage is particularly useful for offsetting the intermittent nature of wind and solar photovoltaics,
which don produce power on demand as a fossil fuel power plant does. For an individual consumer, having a battery behind the meter provides a great deal of flexibility in managing energy use.
Batteries allow consumers to cut their electric bills by reducing how much power they consume during peak hours when power costs more,
which is the case in many states such as California. Homes with rooftop solar panels and batteries can actually use energy from their solar systems during power outages and
with a modest amount of storage, have sufficient power to last for days if the grid is out.
And with enough storage, they can disconnect from the grid indefinitely a development utilities fear.
A number of states have net metering, programs in which utilities purchase the excess electricity from solar panels that fed into the grid.
In combination with net metering, behind-the-meter storage creates the opportunity for customers to buy power from the grid
when prices are low and then sell stored energy from batteries when prices are high.
This practice, known as arbitrage has led to concerns at utilities which have levied large additional charges for equipment installations in some places.
Commercial and industrial customers stand to benefit from behind-the-meter storage as well. They can reduce their usage during times of peak demand
and cut so-called demand charges fees for maximum power usage that can dominate how much they pay for energy.
From the perspective of the power grid, electric vehicles (EVS) can in many respects be considered a variation of behind-the-meter storage they just happen to be mobile.
EV batteries can hold a significant amount of energy. The Nissan leaf for example, holds 24 kilowatt-hours,
while an average house will use 30 kilowatt-hours per day, so a car battery could provide backup power during an outage.
But electric cars create challenges for grid operators. Because they draw so much current during charging, there is the potential to overload circuits that serve neighborhoods.
when energy demand and prices are low. By charging when the power use is low, EVS can help flatten the typical load curve of the grid
and draw power at off-peak hours at night. Since EVS are pulling power off the grid
they can also offset excess power production from wind in particular, which often generates more power than can be used late at night.
Close on the horizon is so-called vehicle to grid (V2g) technology. Standards will finally make it possible to use the EV battery in two-way operation with utilities.
The University of Delaware for example, has experimented with ways to connect parked EVS to the electric grid.
When grid operators need a short burst of power or have excess power, they push power back and forth into the EVSBATTERIES.
Owners could be paid for these services. A real game changer, however, would be if utilities could manage the behind-the-meter storage with another technology known as demand response
Utilities used to make deals with large energy users, such as factories, and call them on the phone to cut power use during peak power days.
grid operators struggle to meet the demand. Cutting power during those peak hours gives them more capacity to avoid brownouts.
S Energy Information Administrationthe phone calls of old evolved into automated systems. And eventually, in deregulated markets,
businesses formed that collect the demand response commitments from multiple large energy users. Then they sell that capacity to reduce power
when needed on the daily energy markets. This has been an effective method for reducing dependence on the polluting
and Austin Energy in Texas have begun experimenting with demand response in the residential market. Smart thermostat maker Nest uses its internet-connected thermostat to respond to demand response requests on peak demand days.
If utilities could draw on the energy stored in behind-the-meter batteries and EVS, it could have a range of benefits.
For the consumer, energy storage enables a whole new way to look at home electricity use. It can provide energy security,
and solar electricity generators to sell their power in specific time-blocks, increasing their ability to compete with traditional power plants.
This, alone, has led to Chile installing a forecast record amount of new installed renewable capacity of 1. 1gw in 2015,
according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. ow growth will come from auctions, said Adam James, solar analyst for Latin america at GTM Research. hile alone will be responsible for half of new solar installations in Latin america this year. ccording to Werner,
the company will participate in Chile next energy auction, for which participants can submit bids until April 2016,
the amount of electricity from solar power being generated in the US was only 0. 8%of the total energy mix in our electrical grid.
the US Energy Information Administration estimates that solar will grow from what you see in the chart above to about 3%of our grid energy mix coming from solar by 2040 (note that the chart above doesn account for rooftop solar power).
President Obama Clean Power Plan, announced last week, seeks to rive more aggressive investment in clean energy technologies than the proposed rule,
with the hope of boosting all renewable energy generation by 2030 by 30%.%Yet, even with these measures, nonrenewables will still dominate our energy mix
. or solar to truly thrive, everyone needs to use it. However, many people either do not own their roofs
says Paul Droege inventor of the Sunport. he expense of solar panels and required ownership of a roof limit solar growth.
The Sunport smart device plugs into the wall between the electricity grid and your powered devices
serving as a portal to the solar energy on the grid. Sunport is the world first smart grid solar delivery device,
instantly providing 100%solar for anything it is used with. e are democratizing solar and bringing this clean energy to the masses,
Droege says. unport is putting the power of choice in people hands, giving everyone the ability to choose renewable over traditional energy,
while creating demand for more solar projects to be built. Whenever you plug into Sunport, the power you get from it is upgraded automatically to solar through the company proprietary smart grid technology.
It tracks the energy you use through it to power your devices and matches that up with real solar production out there in the world.
It does this by leveraging the same solar renewable energy certificates (SRECS) market that large corporations use to reduce their carbon footprints.
Solar panels are required still to make this solar energy, but you don need to own them. Sunport platform lets you access expensive solar infrastructure,
Whoever pays the power bill is paying for standard grid power. Sunport simply adds a small additional cost that provides the solar upgrade
which also pays to help support new solar farms feeding even more solar into the grid.
This upgrade cost is considerably less than standard grid power, since it just for the upgrade and not the electricity itself.
As an example, a month solar upgrade for your laptop from a Sunport will cost no more than $2 extra,
The third-party, transparent accounting of these SRECS guarantees the energy you use through the device is real
In the late 1990s, the government created renewable energy credits (RECS) as a way to separate renewable from nonrenewable energy.
Serving as tradable environmental commodities, RECS represent proof that 1 megawatt-hour (MWH) of electricity was generated by an eligible renewable energy source.
and legitimately claim use of any grid-connected renewable energy. This process matches energy use against a solar energy supply (using SRECS) in strict accordance with
what the US Federal trade commission (FTC) requires to claim use of solar energy. Moreover, for each dollar Rechoice spends to acquire SRECS,
which get free electricity from those installations. That way, each Sunjoule micro credit upgrades a little bit of power today, helps add a little more new solar production to the grid
and aids in powering worthy nonprofits for years to come. he use of micro credits through a Sunport,
So, in a nutshell, Sunport tracks the energy you use, then syncs your account up with micro credits to upgrade your grid energy use to solar, based on the well established and regulated SREC market.
Once Sunport Kickstarter campaign is funded, the Sunport app will be developed so users will be able to track the energy they use. ee reinventing how people perceive
and use solar with Sunport. By making it more accessible and affordable wee empowering everyone to create a healthier solar powered world
#Solid-state Lithium-O2 Battery Featuring Integrated Electrolyte+Cathode Structure Shows Potential A new solid-state lithium-O2 battery featuring an integrated electrolyte+cathode structure developed by researchers at the Hong kong
The new battery was developed with the intention of dealing with two of the primary issues facing conventional solid-state Li-air battery performance:
limited 3-phase boundaries (electrode, electrolyte, O2 interfaces) and high internal resistance. The battery features considerably improved internal resistance (reduced),
and an increase in triple-pause boundaries. These were achieved via the use of a much thinner electrolyte layer than is used conventionally (around 10%the thickness of those used in conventional batteries),
and a very highly porous cathode (with an increase of 78%in porosity as compared to conventional designs).
As a result, the battery outputs a discharge capacity as high as 14,200 ma h g-1carbon at 0. 15 ma cm-2,
The novel integrated electrolyte and cathode structure represents a significant step toward the advancement of Li-O2 batteries.
The new work and findings are detailed in a new paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental science.
As ever, new battery technology reakthroughsare a dime a dozen these days, so while certainly worth taking note of,
#First Offshore wind farm In U s. Under Construction In July, American offshore wind developer, Deepwater Wind, installed the first foundation for
what is expected to be the first offshore wind farm in the United states. The project will be located three miles southeast of Block island, Rhode island.
With five turbines totaling 30 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity, the Block island Wind farm is expected to come online in 2016.
Deepwater Wind, the developer, is also planning two larger offshore projects along the Atlantic coast, but their timing remains uncertain.
200 gigawatts (GW) of developable offshore wind potential, compared to its estimate of 11,000 GW of onshore wind potential.
Wind resources are classified on a scale of zero to seven based on their power density, and more than 66%of offshore wind in the United states is in wind power class six or seven.
In addition, offshore wind turbines are built to take advantage of the more consistent wind speeds present over the ocean,
allowing higher utilization rates for offshore generation capacity when compared with similarly sized onshore wind turbines.
However, offshore wind is significantly more expensive to build and maintain than onshore wind. Although there are currently no operating offshore wind projects in the United states
offshore wind turbine technology has grown steadily in Europe, and, to a lesser extent, in Asia. As of 2014, Europe accounted for 90%of the estimated 8. 8 GW of installed global offshore wind turbine capacity.
Offshore wind power development in Europe began in 1991 when the first offshore farm was installed off the coast of Denmark,
although the industry had little growth from that point until the 2000s. In the United states, developers have proposed building nearly 4. 9 GW of offshore wind capacity off the coasts of nine different states,
but some challenges remain even for projects that have advanced through key regulatory and market milestones.
For example Cape Wind, a 486-MW project proposed in 2001, faced significant challenges and litigation that halted its progress.
In 2014, National grid and Eversource Energy terminated the power purchase agreements with Cape Wind because of missed project development deadlines.
Other projects such as the Virginia Offshore wind Technology Advancement Project and Fisherman Energy Wind of New jersey have faced development hurdles despite making significant progress in project development.
Compared with Western europe, the current leader in offshore wind energy the United states is estimated to have more abundant and favorable onshore wind resources,
which are located largely in areas with low population density. So far, the high cost of domestic offshore wind projects has made them economically unattractive,
despite the availability of federal tax incentives and state policies to promote use of renewable energy.
Building and maintaining offshore wind technology is compared expensive with onshore wind projects because of challenges such as transporting equipment and workers to the sites
securing turbines to the seafloor, and operating in fewer periods of fair weather. The harsher offshore environment not only makes it difficult
but during the night the airport would be required to purchase power from the grid. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) recently announced that major airports in the western state of Rajasthan would also set up solar power projects to meet a part of their power demand.
They started designing portable turbines in 2013, after finding there aren any on the market.
Vice president of Janulus. enewable energy is close to our heart and we saw a way to do something that we thought was pretty cool,
500 milliamp-hour battery (7500 mah) for the times there is no wind. hat less than one charge for a laptop,
so you can carry it with you as a reserve battery wherever you are added Agust.
unless you were very energy conservant, but you can definitely put a big dent in your bill,
It also has an inbuilt grid tie, which allows owners to feed the grid. Kickstarter For A 2, 500 Watt Model They have launched just their second Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds necessary to buy more machinery to manufacture a 2,
500 watt portable turbine. hat is what this kickstart is for, to get the additional machinery
and scale up the operation, said Einar. The prototype has charged already a Tesla and they say it can supply enough electricity to service a large cottage. hen it is closed it is about one meter,
or about 3 feet, and when it is opened it is it is about 3. 2 meters,
000 mah battery, which Agust says would power a laptop all day. Einar added that the 2,
if you ran out of electricity somewhere, you would have your own personal power station, he said l
#Global Population Wants Political Action On Climate change A recent survey of over 10,000 citizens in 76 countries across five continents concluded that the global public want their leaders to act to prevent further climate change.
In a one-of-a-kind survey, the World Wide Views on Climate and Energy (WWVIEWS on Climate and Energy) engaged over 10,000 citizens in 97 debates in 76 countries across five continents earlier this year,
WWVIEWS on Climate change and Energy initiated 97 debates around the world, inviting thousands of citizens to participate.
and man into the climate negotiations, said Christiana Figueres, Executive secretary of the UNFCCC, on the WWVIEWS on Climate and Energy. any cities,
(which can be read in full by way of the various resources provided by WWVIEWS on Climate and Energy):
and Energy is being organized and happy to collaborate with such an important initiative, Figueres continued. ringing forward the views
World Wide Views on Climate and Energy is initiated co by the United nations Framework Convention on Climate change (UNFCCC) secretariat, the Danish Board of Technology Foundation (DBT), Missions Publiques (MP),
#Stanford Engineers Develop Solar cell Cooling Coating To Boost Efficiency A report published by Stanford details the development of a novel cooling technology that its engineers claim can improve solar panel performance.
The outcome represents a solution to a longstanding problem in the field of photovoltaics; that at higher temperatures resultant from prolonged exposure to sunlight, solar cells become increasing inefficient at converting sunlight photons into electricity.
In response to this problem the engineers developed a visibly transparent overlay more technically a silica photonic crystal overlay that increases solar cell efficiency by radiating the heat of cells away from them much like how we naturally radiate heat from our bodies to prevent overheating.
The overlay itself was made from patterned silica, fashioned into a thin, transparent material. This design means that the overlay can be laid on top of an unaltered solar cell this is important
since it infers that the new solution requires no additional tampering with the solar cells themselves to achieve cooling effects and enhanced cell performance.
The critical feature of the silica overlay is found in its micron-scale pattern, which is designed to maximise the radiating of heat, in the form of infrared light, out and away from the cell into space.
thereby preserving the energy that required to produce electricity. But as the researchers noted in a statement,
During testing, an overlay was fitted to a solar absorber a device that provides an analogue to the properties of a solar cell and measures absorption of solar radiation,
but doesn actually produce electricity. Several other absorbers were also set up in control conditions. The photograph above kindly provided by Linxiao Zhu,
The bare solar absorber here has structure similar as solar cell, and is bluish. ne can observe that the structure with verlay (the second from left) has same color as the other samples,
in a typical solar cell that difference would confer a significant improvement in overall cell efficiency.
he experimentally demonstrated temperature reduction of 13°C (23°F) would translate to an absolute solar cell efficiency improvement larger than one percentage point a significant solar cell efficiency improvement.
The Stanford Report additionally noted that such a gain in energy production is predicted for a typical crystalline silicon solar cell with an efficiency of 20%.
we are actively looking into directly demonstrating solar cell efficiency improvement from our cooling strategy, by measuring the generated electricity,
explained Zhu. Clearly this is an important step. The overlay has demonstrated successfully its ability to cool a solar absorber,
when paired with a solar cell that is at the same time generating electricity. But still this must be shown under controlled conditions before we may imagine the technology being applied to the production of solar PV cells.
Investigating radiative cooling has been the primary focus of the researchersaims with the solar panel demonstration merely one,
The scientists also consider their findings to hold great potential for application over a wide range of electronic products which could benefit from passive cooling. esides solar cell,
where sunlight absorption is required either for functional (such as solar cells) or aesthetic reasons (such as maintaining the colors for cars, clothes etc
which aims to create comprehensive roadmap for Africa energy transition, and recommends 14 actions deemed helpful to speeding the uptake of renewables across Africa.
The report is part of IRENA REMAP 2030 program. frica holds some of the best renewable energy resources in the world in the form of biomass, geothermal, hydropower,
and expand their energy systems while providing a pathway for low-carbon economic growth. ccording to the report,
Africa could see renewable energy ealistically meet22%of its energy needs by 2030, which equates to a more than fourfold increase on the 5%of 2013.
the report also concludes that such a scale up of renewables in Africa s an affordable means to help meet fast-growing energy demand while increasing energy access, improving health,
and develop is energy: meeting rising demand for power, transport and other uses in a way that is economically sustainable and safeguards livelihoods. he report identifies four key modern technologies as having the ighest deployment potentialsfor Africa modern biomass for cooking
, hydropower, wind, and solar power. Specifically, the authors of the report believe that renewable energy could transform the continent electricity sector by pushing the share of renewables in the electricity mix to 50%by 2030
if the report suggestions are implemented. Hydropower and wind could each grow to around 100 GW capacity,
A shift to biomass-based cooking would reduce the use of traditional cook stoves by more than 60,
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