#Breakthrough photonic processor promises quantum computing leap Optical quantum computers promise to deliver processing performance exponentially faster and more powerful than today's digital electronic microprocessors.
and therefore also carry relatively bulky batteries to power their transmitters. Though still in development, the engineers say their new system is superior to existing radio communications technologies in this field,
In this way, the coils act as inductors for the application of energy and the production of magnetic fields and allow the body itself to act as a sort of waveguide for those fields.
in turn, reduce battery requirements, leading to smaller and more efficient devices. In this way, not only could wearables
and monitors be made smaller with longer battery life, but it would also reduce the size of ingestible transmitters to something much easier to swallow."
because they are limited to using small batteries, said Jiwoong Park, a Ph d student in Mercier's lab. ith this magnetic field human body communication system,
we hope to significantly reduce power consumption as well as how frequently users need to recharge their devices."
"According to the researchers, beyond the benefits of ultra-low-power energy consumption, magnetic field human body communication may offer greater security than current wireless communication technologies.
Power is produced from a 250w brushless DC motor combined with a Lifepo4 36 V, 3. 4 Ah battery,
The scientists also believe that their theoretical research points towards using boron-doped graphene to improve such things as lithium-ion batteries by controlling generated gas levels for optimum efficiency y
#High-tech comb uses plasma to kill lice As some parents will already know, head lice infestations can be very difficult to treat.
in the form of a comb that zaps the pests with cold plasma. Already in use in some German pediatric clinics, the comb has conductive teeth that serve as electrodes.
generating plasma. Exposure to that plasma kills both adult lice and their eggs, which are known as nits.
Because the pulses are very short, however, the plasma is no warmer than room temperature. Therefore
there's no danger of burns or singeing to the patient. Just one treatment reportedly kills half of the lice and nits immediately,
#A Smartphone Case That Recharges Your Battery from Thin Air How many times a day do you scramble around looking for a power cord
A new smartphone case promises to top off your battery lifeut of thin air. The Harvest phone case grabs the power your phone wastes and puts it back into the battery.
About 90%of your phone power is spent pumping out radio waves just trying to keep its wireless connection even
The case arveststhose stray radio waves and converts them into electric power. The Harvest case is able to stretch your battery life by nearly a third.
Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.
Ohio State university came up with the technology and licensed it to Nikola Labs to build and sell.
Turning smog into diamonds would require too much energy, but the designer, who has created also solar bike paths in The netherlands,
often leading to the lowest levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) in projects. Not only is increased annual production,
Key considerations include the total annual electricity production and the amount of electricity produced during hours
when electricity demand is at its highest. PV Watts is a useful tool for examining the tradeoffs involved.
The software predicts the power produced from a PV system under various configurations. If a sunny location like Albuquerque, New mexico is selected,
the software indicates a single-axis tracker would produce about 20 percent more energy compared to the same size (Wdc) optimally oriented/tilted fixed PV system.
A tracking system will also produce more energy when a utility most wants it --when electric demands are at their peak.
Generally speaking, single-axis trackers produce about 20 percent more energy compared to fixed-mount systems just about anywhere in the U s. However,
the amount of annual energy produced in a cloudy location like Seattle is only about 60 percent of a sunny area like Albuquerque,
and is positioned to be a very competitive source of electricity going forward. Tags: array technologies, solar tracker s
Sure, power turbines that run at a fixed speed--60 hertz, or cycles per second, in the U s.--have served the grid well to date.
But the rise of wind and solar power, which rises and falls with the weather, and uses inverters to turn direct current into grid-ready alternating current, presents them with a serious set of challenges.
These include low efficiency when theye forced to ramp up and down to match fluctuations in renewable energy,
Hoffman said during a presentation at last month Grid Edge Live conference in San diego. For microgrids that run diesel generators to back up renewable energy,
For the grid at large, it could place strict limitations on how much renewable energy can be integrated before the need arises for excessive amounts of fossil fuel-fired power plants
or expensive batteries, to back it up. Innovus Power variable speed genset could solve those problems in one neat package,
Developed over a decade of work in the marine engine and off-grid power space, the 600-kilowatt units combine a high-efficiency engine from Rolls royce-owned manufacturer MTU, a permanent magnet
and a AC-DC-AC power converter from wind turbine maker Northern Power systems. e start by taking a generator
Hoffman said during his Grid Edge Live presentation. The unit engine has more flexibility than a traditional fixed-speed generator
is a system that should cost less and work better than diesel-backed generators or lots of battery storage for the microgrid market,
solution to integrating an ever-growing share of renewables on their grids. ou may look at our platform on the surface and say,
and Northern Power systems. It also includes Mark Levy, the VP of sales and business development,
who previously held similar positions at aerospace giant Northrop grumman and inverter maker Advanced Energy. Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency
whether theye inverter-based renewable energy or battery storage systems, or traditional spinning generators. With the benefit of the Northern Power Systemspower converter
I have positive contribution to my grid. At the same time, am balancing out the unevenness of my renewables
which has build a 1-megawatt wind farm and backup diesel generator array for the Aleutian island town of Sand Point,
According to an analysis using modeling tools from microgrid consulting firm Homer Energy, Innovus should be able to allow that wind capacity to be used for both electricity
and additional uses like heating (notated as"dump power"on the chart below), while saving about 450,000 liters of fuel per year--a significant cost reduction for an island that must import all its fuel.
In Australia, off-grid project development company EMC is looking at using the Innovus system to back up truck stops,
mining operations and other remote locations where grid electricity is either very costly or simply unavailable.
Unlike remote islands, diesel costs in mainland Australia are low enough to make a renewables-plus-batteries microgrid uneconomical
director at EMC. here a lot of work happening off the grid in Australia, most of it diesel-fired, he said.
but not without a certain amount of energy storage in the form of expensive lithium-ion batteries. he Innovus genset is going to allow us to achieve a very high renewable penetration without a very large battery,
the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of a Western Australian microgrid system using an Innovus genset comes to 25 cents per kilowatt-hour,
you could connect PV arrays and batteries on the DC bus. That, in turn, ould allow you to eliminate all those inverters,
The call isn just coming from off-grid realms, he added. e have one very large utility in Asia that now very interested in running some pilot systems,
One might argue that combining batteries with green power is a more environmentally friendly alternative,
But pure battery systems still have a hard time penciling out in all but the most expensive fossil fuel markets.
Even if batteries get to the point where the round trip is more cost-effective than burning fossil fuel, hat greatfor Innovus,
or a fuel cell, or some dispatchable power source beyond your storage. t
#Solarcity Has a New Plan to Make Distributed Energy an Integral Part of the Grid Solarcity has an idea for how to help California utilities tap their own customers as an integral part of their billion-dollar distribution grid plans:
put them first in line. The plan is called a istribution loading ordera variation of the state longstanding loading order that puts renewables and efficiency ahead of fossil fuel-fired power for large-scale power procurements and transmission planning.
In a white paper this week, Solarcity wrote that the structure could be a key lever for customer-owned distributed energy resources (DERS) to compete for billions of dollars of distribution grid projects being planned by the state big three utilities.
grid-responsive customers and their aggregated value first, before paying for new wires, poles and transformers upgrades.
It would also put existing DERS in front of utility contracts and procurements for distributed energy, like Southern California Edison groundbreaking local capacity requirement (LCR) contracts last year. ur idea is to start with what there,
said Ryan Hanley, Solarcity senior director of grid engineering solutions, in an interview. fter you find out what you can do with your pricing signals,
plan and procure for their distribution grid needs. It also comes at a time when California is suddenly wide open to innovative grid-DER integration concepts.
Under a California Public Utilities Commission decision last year, the state big investor-owned utilities are already turning in distribution resource plans (DRPS.
These lay out where their grid circuits could be helped or hurt by distributed energy resources, and set goals for figuring out just how they can best be valued as grid assets.
But last week integrated demand side resource proposed decision from Commissioner Mike Florio takes the DRP process to the next level,
authorizing new markets, programs or tariff structures that can actually start paying DERS for that value--or,
if theye going to be a grid burden. Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles
energy efficiency, demand response, and any other kind of demand-side resource to compare its costs and benefits to any other, in any combination,
Meanwhile, customer incentives are split up into energy efficiency programs, self-generation incentive program credits, energy storage mandates, demand response payments,
and the potential to play a role in the state grid markets. In this kind of fractured
senior policy and regulatory attorney for the Center for Sustainable energy. xisting incentives and value streams don provide the right signals to adopt complementary solutions that provide synergistic value to the grid,
One of the challenges in making customers a part of grid planning is that it's difficult to know what theye going to do.
Energy prices are a blunt instrument when it comes to forcing behavior change. Even automated and aggregated DERS lack the always-on communications
and control between grid operators and, say, utility-scale solar and wind farms. Still there are methods to determine the effective load carrying capacity of distributed renewables at scale,
or predict the response of lots of household batteries and smart thermostats to rising and falling prices.
Solarcity proposes building some headroom into how the distribution loading order calculates the capacity of customer-owned DER,
versus its vailabilityfor those must-have grid moments, o probabilistically discount the different types of distribution products."
or build itself, to stand in as last-resort grid resources, as this chart shows: As for how companies like Solarcity will go about proving their DERS can do
what they say they can, mart inverters will be on every new installation going forward, Hanley said,
California utilities have made it pretty clear that they want to have direct access to whatever DERS they take on as grid investments,
whether to actively dispatch it for grid needs or to monitor it for compliance with its chosen task.
At the same time, theye starting to experiment with tariffs for behind-the-meter batteries smart thermostats and plug-in EVS to help defer distribution grid investments Ted Ko, policy director at behind-the-meter battery startup Stem,
noted at a Thursday CPUC workshop that his company is installing 85 megawatts of storage under its Southern California Edison contract,
Solarcity CTO Peter Rive suggested at Thursday meeting that utilities be allowed to earn returns on distributed energy resources as-a-service. ou could meet that load growth with standalone solar.
it could be solar with a little battery. In either case, it much cheaper than a transformer upgrade.
Solarcity is already selling Tesla behind-the-meter batteries with its solar systems, and has been testing their ability to work in concert as an aggregated grid resource.
But f there were time-of-use tariffs, we could put in batteries every day, and use them to shift load,
he said. Connected water heaters and smart thermostats could be added too, said Hanley. ou could be like us,
and there will be some weight for the craft, solar panels and communications, but we think there would be 20 kilograms left over for the payload,
By making precise measurements of particle mass and electric charge, researchers from the University of São paulo (USP) and the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) confirmed the symmetry between the nuclei of particles and antiparticles in terms of charge, parity
and identification capabilities to take measurements of particles produced from high-energy heavy ion collisions. The purpose of their experiment was to look for subtle differences in the ways protons
Each magnet within the new metamaterial is shaped like a grain of rice and roughly 63 nanometers in length.
PSI is designed to complement the high-energy experiments conducted at CERN Large hadron collider (LHC). The facility world-class equipment includes an instrument known as The swiss Muon Source (S S)
tailored phase transitions could enable metamaterials to be adapted specifically for different needs in future, "explains Heyderman.
but with its adaptability, this new metamaterial could be the wave of the future. Apart from facilitating information transfer,
That slightly larger body will have a smaller battery than the iphone 6, according to previous leaks.
whether that will mean that the phone will have less battery life, however, since Apple has been rumoured to be adding new, more efficient components.
This is also a battery charger, which uses as a power the conventional room or outdoor plants.
The device allows you to use the residual energy that is produced during photosynthesis . What allows you to restore a dead battery in about 1. 5 hours.
It seems science fiction, but the technology works properly. As a donor used single plant, although its dimensions are specified not.
#Concept the translucent battery, that charging from the sun A group of Japanese engineers at the University of Kogakuin developed translucent lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in the sun. Solar rays are converted into electricity, the fact
which will function as a large battery, and as a solar panel. When the battery fall into the sun rays,
it becomes slightly tinted: light transmission drops to 30%.%Discharge causes the growth of up to 60%light transmission.
The trick lies in the fact that the scientists were able to make the electrodes exceptionally thin just 80 nanometers.
These improved materials which have been used in batteries lithium iron phosphate positive electrode and lithium titanate negative.
According to the developers, now the battery can withstand 20 charge-discharge cycles. Development is the next step to the windows of the future, acting as solar panels.
They will not only automatically obscure the sunlight, but also store energy for the consumer devices r
#Innovative Wristify bracelet, which heats and cools Wearable technology and built-in sensors collect information about users to create an environment,
the goal of this working prototype to significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings by cooling the individuals, rather than the entire building l
Place an LED light and battery on special paper and draw a line with the marker to connect the light and battery.
In the future it is expected to be used in power plants and other equipment. t a dream material, says Luthra,
hoping the materials could be used in power plants. NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft.
He figured how to apply the coatings to each individual fiber in something called a chemical vapor deposition reactor,
It will also almost certainly be used in gas-fired power plants and perhaps in nuclear reactors as well.
Daikin action is aimed at encouraging manufacturers worldwide to adopt sustainable comfort cooling and heating technologies that use HFC-32, a refrigerant with a lower global warming impact than commonly used refrigerants.
since 2011 to accelerate the phase out of ozone-depleting refrigerants, such as HCFC-22, said Shinya Okada, Daikin senior executive officer. iven the urgent need to address climate change,
Conversion from high-GWP refrigerants is already underway. Last year, the European union enacted the revised F-gas regulation*to reduce the global warming impact of refrigerants.
In the United states, the Environmental protection agency (EPA) is in the process of revising its regulations that establish acceptable alternatives for ozone depleting and high-GWP refrigerants.
In addition, Japan Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons, which came into force in April 2015,
encourages conversion from high-GWP refrigerants e
#Technology U s. scientists make tiny invisibility cloak A tiny invisibility cloak has been invented by U s. scientists who are edging ever-closer to a real version of
compact rectangular box fitted with an antenna, a signal amplifier and a battery, which can be carried easily
It has a solar panel to charge the battery, to keep it working in places without electric power.
An alternative communications system like this could help save lives when disasters strike by connecting survivors with rescue workers and government officials.
and is known for its excellent conductive properties of heat and electricity. The graphene sheets stuck very well to the nanoglueo much
LEDS are a type of device that can efficiently convert electricity to light. Unlike fluorescent and incandescent bulbs,
which direct 80 percent of the energy consumed to producing heat, LEDS direct 80 percent of the energy consumed to producing light.
This is made possible by the fact that LEDS do not require a filament to be heated as incandescent and fluorescent bulbs do.
#New Material Could Turn Water into Fuel Scientists have designed theoretically a new material that could help supply the world with clean energy by turning water into fuel,
which mimics the way plants absorb energy from the sun, could make the energy-sapping job of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen relatively easy.
As well as potentially being able to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, the complex new material could also be used to turn carbon dioxide from the air into a carbon-based fuel,
such as methanol. Ricardo Grau-Crespo, from the Chemistry department of the University of Reading, led the team that made the discovery."
"Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is an energy-intensive process, which currently requires much more energy in from electricity than comes out in usable fuel.
To make the process more efficient, scientists use a photocatalyst-a material that absorbs light from the sun
as it can only absorb energy from ultraviolet light. The Reading-led team used supercomputer simulations to look at many different candidates as potential photocatalysts for fuel production reactions.
which allow plants to convert sunlight into chemical energy, "said Grau-Crespo.""The challenge now is to incorporate these wonderful natural catalysts into materials capable of doing the specific chemical job we need.
it could lead to highly-efficient conversion of solar energy to chemical energy-providing a clean, storable and transferrable source of energy. y
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
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
used subcritical fluid technology to extract phenolic compounds from the potato biomass. Traditional methods use methanol, a toxic solvent.
the overall goal is to achieve complete use of the available biomass. Her team, including visiting scientists from Brazil and China,
and to gasify what left of the biomass residue to obtain hydrogen. That research is ongoing a
is central to most electric power plants, heating and cooling systems, and desalination plants. Now, for the first time, researchers at MIT have found a way to control this process, literally with the flick of an electrical switch.
which could improve the efficiency of electric power generation and other processes, is described in a paper by Evelyn Wang, Department of Mechanical engineering Professor, Jeremy Cho, graduate student and Jordan Mizerak, recent graduate,
That could make it possible to make more efficient boilers for powerplants or other applications, since present designs require a substantial safety margin to avoid the possibility of hot spots that could seriously damage the equipment.
While most such power plants operate at a steady rate most of the time being able to control the heat transfer rates dynamically could improve their efficiency
he says. aving a boiler that can respond to quick changescould provide extra flexibility to the electric grid,
After nearly four years of aggressive rehabilitation efforts, Pollock arrived at UCLA having already mastered the use of a battery-powered wearable bionic suit,
and provide electrolytes to help people hydrate, Tidey said. The zinc supplements help with immune function and the transport of water in the body, according to the World health organization.
However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
Solar cells power the equipment, while batteries store power when there isn't enough sunlight. Additionally, when conditions in the container are just right,
the device will automatically power down, conserving energy so that it can automatically turn on when the humidity and temperature rise."
"As long as the documents aren't accessed all day long, the power requirements aren't that hefty, "said Harrison King-Mcbain, an engineering graduate student from the University of Toronto.
the owners would not be able to afford the energy needed to operate it. Clarke promised to help.
Clarke said that a solar technology firm is needed now to finish development and help with construction.
Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
"If you were on the receiving end of laser energy, you would have no idea where it was coming from or
The Compact Laser weapons System features four main parts that help it turn plain old energy into a deadly force:
It has a battery, a chiller that keeps the system from getting too hot, a 2-kilowatt laser and a"beam director"that points the laser light at the intended target.
The only cost associated with operating them is the cost of electricity to power the lasers, according to Boeing,
really tiny animal the microscopic tardigrade is the inspiration behind a new material that could improve the efficiency of things like LED LIGHTS and solar cells.
and solar cells noticed that they could sometimes produce glass-coated devices with structured, or"oriented"molecules."
Meanwhile, those who build solar cells want as much light as possible to move"down,"toward the substrate,
However, batteries are too heavy and bulky to fit into such small gizmos. Instead, these inventions could be powered wirelessly using magnetic induction,
wherein one coil of wire can transmit energy to another coil using magnetic fields.""Wireless neural stimulation in mice has been demonstrated many times before,
However, previous wireless brain-stimulating devices were limited by their power harvesting components. If these parts were small,
if the animals moved away from the spot where the energy was focused, which limited how far the animals could roam.
"Now the researchers have created implantable wirelessly powered brain-stimulating devices by essentially using the mouse's body to help collect energy."
The bodies of the mice are used not to absorb energy, the researchers said. Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
About one-thousandth of the energy transmitted at the mice gets absorbed by the devices, an efficiency comparable to previous systems,
the researchers said.""We achieve these efficiencies, however, without limiting the area of coverage or requiring large head-mounted antennae,"Poon added.
it uses less energy.""However, carbon nanotubes grow in a disorderly manner, "resembling a bowl of spaghetti,
Whoever is controlling the anti-drone system can keep the UAV hovering at a distance until the machine runs out of battery life and crashes to the ground, according to a report by the BBC.
It has a battery life of about ten hours, of course depending on the reader speed. The developers also plan for the device to display text messages and other notifications,
in plasma isolated from blood. By measuring the level of genetic mutations in the ctdna, the test can predict the nature of metastatic disease
000 suns The latest in solar power comes to us from Swiss inventors working for Airlight Energy, Dsolar (a subsidiary of Airlight),
It uses something called HCPVT (Highly Efficient Concentrated Photovoltaic/Thermal) to generate electricity and hot water from solar power.
as well as highly efficient photovoltaic cells (known as gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells) to convert that concentrated solar energy into electricity. Though concentrated solar thermal power
"In other words, the difference between this technology being classified as a death ray as opposed to a solar array is merely a matter of how the reflectors are angled.
Photovoltaic cells used by the Sunflower have a max operating temperature of around 105 degrees Celsius,
The end result is a device that produces about 12kw of electricity, along with 21kw of thermal energy.
Even though that doesn't amount to a huge amount of energy (the 12kw of electricity is only enough to power a few homes, for instance),
Its gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells though more efficient than standard PV cells, are not cheap. Add up construction costs and the costs of the fancy cooling system,
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