and emergency management officials protect those patients who rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment. The empower Map from HHS'Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness
wheelchairs depends on a steady supply of electricity. The online tool shows the monthly total number of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries'claims for electricity-dependent equipment at the national
state, territory, county and zip code levels. It then incorporates that data with real-time severe weather tracking services from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration in a GIS.
The empower Map could be used by electric utility companies to determine priority areas for restoring electrical service based on the location of the largest concentrations of electricity-dependent individuals,
whether emergency shelters might experience greater electricity demand due to higher concentrations of electricity-dependent Medicare beneficiaries,
"For people who rely on electricity-dependent medical equipment, prolonged power outages can mean life or death,"said Lurie."
In a position paper for the 3rd annual BDEC event, a team of researchers from A*Star Computational Resource Centre revealed further details about the implementation of Infinicortex. he approach is not a grid or cloud based,
and dsync+(TITECH/Georgia Tech) Near real-time plasma disruption detection using ADIOS (Princeton Plasma Research Lab/ORNL) Automated microscopy image analysis for cancer detection,
finding cures to Alzheimer and other diseases, developing new clean energy technologies, and promoting new advanced manufacturing opportunities.
according to the request, such that dedicated exascale funding at the four DOE crosscuts Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR), Basic energy Sciences (BES), Biological and Environmental Research (BER),
and the energy technology offices in the development of advanced computing technologies to provide better understanding complex physical systems, notes Dehmer.
Other pieces of the ASCR roadmap include the mandate to maintain operations with>90 percent availability, deployment of a 10-40 petaflop upgrade at National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC),
By placing a positive or negative electrical voltage across the interface between the liquid metal and an electrolyte,
#3d, high-capacity soft batteries created using trees Even as technology advances at a mind-boggling rate,
batteries always seem to lag behind. It often hinders the development of novel devices and gadgets simply due to their bulky size or limited storage capacity.
and scientists may have taken just a significant stride in the field with the development of two novel high-capacity energy storage devices made from a cheap and renewable material:
Although some 3d charge-storage devices have been created in the past, they have been limited by the manufacturing processes used to create the complex architecture. here are limits to how thin a battery can be,
but that becomes less relevant in 3d, lead researcher Max Hamedi, of KTH Royal Institute of technology, said in a statement. e are restricted no longer to two dimensions.
but in less space than conventional batteries would allow, Hamedi explains. To create their innovative wood-based aerogel material,
You can touch it without it breaking. he team then coated this spongy material with an ink that conducts electricity within the aerogel,
allowing the researchers to ultimately produce their two 3d energy storage devices: a hybrid battery and a supercapacitor,
which is a rapidly charging and discharging device capable of storing huge amounts of electrical charge.
Led by nanoscientist Ani Sumant of Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and Argonne Distinguished Fellow Ali Erdemir of Argonne Energy systems Division, the Argonne team combined diamond
and therefore the energy demands of different mechanical systems superlubricity has proved elusive. veryone would dream of being able to achieve superlubricity in a wide range of mechanical systems,
or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems, said Sumant e
#World thinnest lightbulb developed using graphene A postdoctoral research scientist, Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU),
what is essentially the world thinnest light bulb, says Hone, Wang Fon-Jen Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering and co-author of the study. his new type of roadbandlight emitter can be integrated into chips
This is primarily because light bulb filaments must be extremely hothousands of degrees Celsiusn order to glow in the visible range
so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission, Myung-Ho Bae, a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author,
dison originally used carbon as a filament for his light bulb and here we are going back to the same element,
and NV Energy, is a network of charging stations planned along U s. Route 95 that would finally make it far easier to drive sparsely populated, mostly desert route between Reno and Las vegas with an electric vehicle.
The electric-car maker is building its giant battery igafactoryoutside of Reno. So the state fortunes will be tied to the success of electric cars.
which will be installed for free by NV Energy. Host sites must agree to let consumers use the stations at no charge for at least five years
costing $6, 000 for a basic version and even more for those that feature fast charging, according to NV Energy. t close to a 7 1/2-hour drive and one day,
said NV Energy CEO Paul Caudill
#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.
despite only being powered by batteries. And now the company has added self-driving capabilities that use a range of sensors to drive safely and more efficiently.
It does so using a special T-shaped battery and a light frame that is built to absorb collisions.
That helps the car use the battery even more efficiently than it already does. The company says that it can build the car o meet special customer requests
The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London,
Offshore wind turbines could benefit from selfhealing technology, as they are damaged often by bird strikes (AFP/Getty) Professor Wass team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials,
*The BMW i8 electric sports car has a carbon fibre passenger compartment to make up for the weight of its heavy battery.
*Offshore wind turbines could also benefit from self-healing technology, as they are damaged often by bird strikes.
saving up to 95 per cent of energy costs compared to conventional electronic methods, the company claims. in addition,
Optalysys hopes optical processing will accelerate computation by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption.
because it uses light rather than electricity as the processing medium, it is much more energy efficient than classical processing devices.
the breakthrough results suggest new ways to optimize solar resources as they are integrated increasingly into the nation energy systems.
That can increase the use of renewable energy sources as a more accepted energy generation option, said Dr. Bri-Mathias Hodge,
who oversees the Transmission and Grid Integration Group at the National Renewable energy Laboratory (NREL), a collaborator in the project.
In 2013, solar was the second-largest source of new electricity generating capacity in the U s,
. exceeded only by natural gas 1. A USA Sunshot Vision Study suggests that solar power could provide as much as 14%of U s. electricity demand by 2030 and 27%by 2050 2. Currently,
and wind forecasts has required electric utilities to hold higher amounts of energy reserves as compared to conventional energy sources.
but it reduces the amount of electricity demand they observe. The growing aggregate output from all these resources across our region will increasingly change the daily demand curve,
so the ISO will need accurate solar forecasts to help grid operators continue to balance power generation and consumer demand.
The U s. Department of energy Sunshot Initiative is a collaborative national effort that aggressively drives innovation to make solar energy fully cost-competitive with traditional energy sources before the end of the decade.
It was possible thanks to the use of plasma. In the Aerial Burton once noted that they created a device is absolutely safe for humans,
including those in contact with the plasma. Possibility to work with such displays provide lasers,
that transmit airborne gases enough energy to heat the electrons and force them to leave their orbit ionize the air
and in the process of ionization towards the plasma a air begins to emit light. To achieve this effect allowed the femtosecond laser pulse
and Fuel cells in June 2014 the Japanese government has highlighted the importance of developing hydrogen station infrastructure as quickly as possible
#Technology Fuel cells provide electricity for homes Kyoto-based Steven Rogers is the business development executive for Ceres Power, a British venture company that specialises in solid oxide fuel cells.
This technology can supply 80%of a modern home electricity and heat up all of its water. ost of our money comes from investors,
will manufacture their fuel cells under licence. Ceres Power brainchild is a remarkably compact fuel cell, the prototypes
of which are made in a state-of-the-art plant in Horsham, southern England. Rogers grasps one of the cells, which,
fuel cell is like a battery, in a sense; but if you have a continuous supply of fuel and air,
it doesn run out in the same way that a battery does. he cell is made up of three layers cathode, electrolyte and anode
thus the cell effectively works as a battery. But, unlike a traditional battery, Ceres fuel cells last years. e are targeting 10 years,
he states. A decade equates to about 90 000 hours of use. A typical home needs 120 separate Ceres cells,
000, will provide most of a home electricity. At the same time, he says, the fuel cell process produces heat,
which will be enough to supply a home with all of its hot water needs. Other companies do make similar systems,
Gas is essential to the Ceres fuel cell process. The stacks will be powered by piped gas in the same way that homes are supplied with gas from the mains in the street.
the energy-making process will be activated immediately in the fuel cell stack. The green credentials in this process are connected,
a typical house gets its electricity, already generated, from a distant power station. But Rogers says that
even in the most efficient gas turbine-driven power station, any large-scale process means an initial loss in energy of 40,
%lost as heat as the fuel is burned. Then, the electricity has to travel by cable and pylon to the consumer,
with an additional 20%of energy lost along the way. By the time the electricity reaches the home,
only 40%of the original energy remains. eat is wasted always if you have centralised power generation,
says Rogers. f you can generate power in the home, you are inherently close to a user of heat.
So you can make use of that heat. ou cannot send heat down a power line;
you can only send electricity. If you compare that to everyone having a power station in their own home, even a little one,
both the user of electricity and the user of heat are there. he Ceres system,
then, is akin to a mini-power station, situated in a home. But, he says, such a system cannot hope to be 100%efficient,
as a small proportion of the electricity generated must be used to power the system own blower,
to keep it cool, and other working parts, such as its pumps. Rogersstrategic location in Kyoto enables him to easily reach the company partners
He expects the Ceres Power fuel cell technology to reach the market in two and half years. f there was one in every home in Japan, for example,
When a laser hits one of the nanostars most of the light scatters with the same amount of energy.
But a small number of photons about 1 in 10 million--scatter with less energy
The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
Light technology is now an active area of research in energy, health and agriculture. First lighting the way In the late 1800s
Thomas Edison created a practical light bulb, an electrically-powered, long-lasting light source that significantly changed our work, play
Light emitting diodes (LEDS) are now everywhere from consumer electronics like smart phones to light bulbs for home lighting.
In recognition of this energy saving invention, they received the Nobel prize in Physics last year. Light was recognized also in the Nobel prize category of Chemistry last year for light-based microscopy tools that use a few tricks to sense the presence of a single molecule.
"a steam-powered sewage processor that burns up solid waste and creates both potable water and electricity.
and built by the Washington-based engineering firm Janicki Bioenergy, which is now receiving funding from the Bill
The generator creates electricity that is used to power the machine. There's even a little extra electricity left over that can be transferred into the power grid.
This self-sustaining machine will soon be launched in a pilot project in Dakar, Senegal, where Janicki engineers will study the Omniprocessor's operation in a real-world setting.
#Following Tesla's Lead Toyota Makes Fuel cell Patents Free Toyota is making thousands of its hydrogen fuel cell patents available royalty-free,
600 fuel cell patentsavailable through 2020 to carmakers who produce and sell fuel cell vehicles, and to parts suppliers and companies interested in building and operating fueling stations,
The carmaker hopes the move will spur worldwide development and innovation in fuel cell technologies. It comes on the heels of a similar decision by billionaire entrepreneur Elon musk to make the patents of his electric car company
requiring a concerted effort and unconventional collaboration between automakers, government regulators, academia and energy providers,
Companies that make fuel cell busses and industrial equipment can also receive the patents, and requests from nontransportation companies will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis,
Fuel cell vehicle-related patents will be available royalty-free until the end of 2020, while hydrogen-production and supply patents will remain free indefinitely.
Toyota also encouraged other companies to share their fuel cell patents. Carter said his company provided substantial funding for the development of hydrogen fueling infrastructure in California and the northeastern United states. In May 2014
500 watts of power and a giant backpack full of motors and batteries to operate. But the company also developed much smaller devices, called passive walkers,
For instance, Samsung introduced a computer monitor made of 30 percent recycled plastic that runs on less energy
Electronics company LG announced a whole line of"greener"home appliances that use less energy and water than the company's previous models
which Misfit has dubbed an"energy harvesting crystal.""The clear crystal version of the Shine can't absorb quite as much light as the blue version,
which is why it needs a traditional battery. Solpro Of course, the Misfit Shine isn't the only product at this year's CES that gets its power from the sun. Solar tech company Solpro unveiled its new solar-powered phone-charging device, the Helios Smart
The device is a pocket-size rectangle that unfolds to reveal three solar panels. These panels can absorb enough sunlight in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone
or those who are living off the grid (even if just on a camping trip). But Solpro CEO Bill Pike thinks the device is a good solution for everyday charging, as well."
sustainable options for generating energy, he said
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"We feel that the findings have potential relevance to a wide range of microsystems technologies biomedical devices, optoelectronics, photovoltaics, 3d circuits, sensors and so on."
That in turn can cause severe dehydration and an imbalance of electrolytes. Without treatment cholera can be deadly.
and Pakistan has started reportedly operating a third plutonium reactor, Squassoni said. She said the United states has good rhetoric on nuclear nonproliferation,
adding that there have been troubling safety discrepancies reported in recent years at power plants. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan project
because its engines are powered battery. NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
#World's Thinnest Light bulb Created from Graphene Graphene, a form of carbon famous for being stronger than steel
Researchers have developed a light-emitting graphene transistor that works in the same way as the filament in a light bulb."
what is essentially the world's thinnest light bulb, "study co-author James Hone, a mechanical engineer at Columbia University in New york, said in a statement.
Scientists have wanted long to create a teensy"light bulb"to place on a chip, enabling what is called photonic circuits,
giving them energy. Those electrons return to their former energy levels and emit photons (light) in the process.
Crank up the current and voltage enough and the filament in the light bulb hits temperatures of about 5, 400 degrees Fahrenheit (3, 000 degrees Celsius) for an incandescent.
This is one reason light bulbs either have no air in them or are filled with an inert gas like argon:
At those temperatures tungsten would react with the oxygen in air and simply burn. In the new study, the scientists used strips of graphene a few microns across and from 6. 5 to 14 microns in length, each spanning a trench of silicon like a bridge.
#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy
and a simple antenna with the receivers can pick up this energy. Talla demonstrated his claim by connecting an antenna to a temperature sensor
Talla informed,"The battery-free camera can operate up to about five meters from the router,
"Talla further said that by adding a rechargeable battery, the operating distance of the camera was increased to seven meters.
Harvesting Power from Vapours The clean energy sources have got an addition on their list, with the researches at the University of Columbia devising the world's first evaporation-driven engine that runs by harvesting energy from the evaporating water.
The study published in the journal Nature Communications today employed the bacterial spores to harness this energy.
Peter Fratzl, biomaterial researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, stated, "This is not the first time that evaporation energy has been captured,
but it is the first time that it has been done a scale where objects could be moved. The work pushes a great idea all the way into a practical demonstration of the potential".
their movement was used to create energy that powered an engine which could run LED LIGHTS and even drive a miniature car!
Fratzl further asserted that this is a very impressive breakthrough as the engine is essentially harvesting useful amounts of energy from the infinitely small
#Novel Approach for Lithium-ion Batteries Researchers from MIT and Cambridge, Mass. -based Battery Company 24m have come up with an advanced manufacturing technology for lithium-ion batteries.
Researchers have claimed of reinvented the process for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries. Not much change has been noticed in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries in the two decades.
Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT, was of the view that the existing technology is not perfect
and there is a need to made advancements. Five years back, Chiang and colleagues developed the new process.
and pumped through different compartments of the battery. Scientists said that the new battery design is a hybrid between flow batteries and conventional ones.
The research published in the Journal of Power Sources unveiled that the new approach has simplified manufacturing.
Also, the batteries become flexible and resistant to damage. Research paper'senior author Chiang said that after presenting the earlier research on the flow battery,
"We realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process".
The new system leads to the production of battery that is more flexible and resilient. Around 10,000 batteries have been made by the company on its prototype assembly lines.
They will undergo testing by three industrial partners s
#Polymide aerogel combines toughness with light weight Claimed to be the first commercially available polyimide aerogel,
The energy-damping bellow is extruded using a Dupont Hytrel TPC-ET polyester thermoplastic elastomer with a tensile elastomer element made of a soft material with lower stiffness to deliver a low force response to the system.
The energy-dampening bellow is 1. 2m long 250mm in diameter and weighs 20kg. It is engaged as the tether reaches its maximum extension
#Electromagnetic field Activated Drug Loadded Nanowires Drug releasing implants can be of great benefit for conditions requiring long term treatment in a targeted area of the body.
Applying an electromagnetic field over the wires caused them to release the drug. Turning off the EM field immediately stopped the drug release process.
The corticosteroid DEX, a powerful ameliorator of inflammation, was released from the polymer by external application of an electromagnetic field for 2 h/day for a week.
if ever, use evaporation as a source of energy, despite myriad examples of such adaptations in the biological world, wrote lead author Xi Chen
For instance, the basic principle here could be used to build power plants over bodies of water that generate electricity as the water evaporates.
Mercedes-benz and Hyundai. Think of a fuel-cell car as an exhaust-free electric car with a little chemical factory producing the electrons in place of a battery.
The other advantage over battery cars is that refueling is just like getting gas, and takes only about five minutes.
The concept has been around for centuries (the fuel cell was invented by a British barrister in the 19th century),
previously mostly quiet on fuel cells though it showed an early interest in hydrogen with 7-Series cars that burned the stuff.
BMW showed a 5-Series ran Turismowith a fuel cell (and a range of 310 miles) at a race track in France
The government has subsidized already home and office fuel cells. Honda will be a big player in fuel cells,
and showed off the FCV Concept car at the Detroit Auto Show back in January. It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
The lamp works by making use of"the science behind the Galvanic cell, the basis for battery-making, changing the electrolytes to a nontoxic,
saline solution--making the entire process safe and harmless,"according to SALT Corp.,at their website. Even better
It even comes equipped with a USB port for charging smartphone batteries. In the event that you don't carry a bag of salt with you,
000 islands in the Philippines lack access to electricity. This technology can turn the ocean into their power source,
providing lighting without the need for an electric grid. The cost of the lamp is yet to be determined;
a bladeless wind turbine that looks like a giant rolled joint shooting into the sky. The Vortex has the same goals as conventional wind turbines:
To turn breezes into kinetic energy that can be used as electricity. But it goes about it in an entirely different way.
Instead of capturing energy via the circular motion of a propeller, the Vortex takes advantage of what known as vorticity,
an aerodynamic effect that produces a pattern of spinning vortices. Vorticity has long been considered the enemy of architects and engineers,
hy don we try to use this energy, not avoid it,?Suriol says. The team started Vortex Bladeless in 2010 as a way to turn this vibrating energy into something productive.
The Vortex shape was developed computationally to ensure the spinning wind (vortices) occurs synchronously along the entirety of the mast. he swirls have to work together to achieve good performance,
This kinetic energy is converted then into electricity via an alternator that multiplies the frequency of the mast oscillation to improve the energy-gathering efficiency.
Based on field testing, the Mini ultimately captures 30 percent less than conventional wind turbines, but that shortcoming is compensated by the fact that you can put double the Vortex turbines into the same space as a propeller turbine.
The Vortex team says there are some clear advantages to their model: It less expensive to manufacture, totally silent,
Vortex Bladeless says its turbine would cost around 51 percent less than a traditional turbine whose major costs come from the blades and support system.
There enough interest, Suriol says, that he fields upward of 200 emails a day from people inquiring about the turbine.
100-watt turbine that will be used in developing countries, ready before the end of the year.
which Suriol is actually happy about. e can say anything bad about conventional wind turbines; theye great machines, he says. ee just proposing a new way, a different way. ource:
The current 3. 5-inch lab prototype, for example, has a force threshold level of 200 newtons--capable of absorbing the energy of a 100 mph fastball in 0. 03 seconds.
have longer battery life and generate less heat than existing mobile devices. The first supercomputers using silicon photonics already under development at companies such as Intel
they exhibit electronic energy levels that are called"Hofstadter's butterfly, "because when they are plotted on a graph it resembles a butterfly.
"Graphene conducts electricity better than graphite. It conducts better than silver or gold, "Sanchez-Yamagishi says.
and it can still conduct electricity basically as well as if it was still a single sheet of graphene,
"A big focus of our lab is just studying electricity in the form of how electrons move around
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