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The 10 strangest facts about graphene

The 10 strangest facts about graphene

When first discovered, graphene was odd. Now odd is too small a word for a material seemingly set on winning all the records a material can win Read more

10 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff
Ocean power innovations make a splash

Ocean power innovations make a splash

...three hydraulic motors driven by the motion of the waves to generate electricity. This device, called the P2, is able to generate 750KW. The idea... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Martin LaMonica
Freescale chip to stop 'vampire' power drain

Freescale chip to stop 'vampire' power drain

...longer plugged into phones, the chargers still draw a small trickle of electricity, ranging from less than a watt for efficient chargers to over 5W... Read more

4 January, 2011 by Martin LaMonica
Gearing up the UK for the smart grid

Gearing up the UK for the smart grid

...prospectus, it will be between £140-160 for the gas meter, the electricity meter, the monitor and the communications. Typically, an installation is somewhere around... Read more

5 October, 2010 by David Meyer

PowerMeter jolts Google's utility management plans

...Google's PowerMeter is a straightforward application for monitoring home electricity at this point, but the company expects to stretch its features towards... Read more

28 June, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

Neul sets date for white-space network's arrival

...also demonstrating today the first use of white space to do remote electricity meter reading, with our partner Bglobal." The wireless network, which reuses UHF... Read more

25 April, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Google backs BrightSource solar power plant

...and is expected to be operating by 2013. It will generate enough electricity to supply about 85,000 homes, according to the DOE, while BrightSource... Read more

12 April, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Europe looks to smart meters to hit energy target

...EU legislation, consumers should already be frequently informed about energy consumption of electricity, gas, heating and cooling and hot water. In practice, this has not... Read more

10 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Chilean power plant to get giant battery

...gaps in power in that area, which needs a reliable supply of electricity for mining operations. The system is designed to supply its full power... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Martin LaMonica

Start-up aims energy-management software at business

...enables businesspeople, either financial executives or sustainability officers, to track usage of electricity, gas, water, waste or greenhouse gases. Once that data is collected, people... Read more

9 November, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

Smart grids raise risk of cyberattack, says US expert

...Smart electricity grids present information security problems for critical national infrastructures, especially for the... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Researchers take stake to vampire power

...In Europe, standby power in one year is equal to the annual electricity consumption of Austria, the Czech Republic and Portugal, according to IBM Research... Read more

27 October, 2010 by Martin LaMonica

BT joins forces with Arqiva, Detica for smart meter bid

...September." Smart meters use machine-to-machine communications to sent gas and electricity meter readings to the utility company, which no longer needs to send... Read more

19 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Virgin to trial super-fast broadband via electricity poles

...trialling the delivery of super-fast fibre optic broadband via the existing electricity pole infrastructure to a small village in Wales. Crumlin, Caerphilly will be... Read more

27 July, 2010 by Ben Woods
Capping the <endeca_term>Electricity</endeca_term> Cost of Cloud-Scale Data Centers With Impacts on Power Markets

Capping the Electricity Cost of Cloud-Scale Data Centers With Impacts on Power Markets

In this paper, the authors propose a novel electricity cost capping algorithm that not only minimizes the electricity cost of operating... Read more

12 March, 2011

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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