Power and Electrical Engineering

This topic covers issues related to energy generation, conversion, transportation and consumption and how the industry is addressing the challenge of energy efficiency in general.

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ORNL, General Electric Collaborate on Super Efficient Electric Water Heater

The GE ® Hybrid Water Heater is affordable and designed to be 50 % more energy efficient than a standard 50 gallon electric water heater, which should help…

Helicopters with fuel cells

Manufacturers normally stack the fuel cells – a structure consisting of several metal plates, each containing one channel for air and one for hydrogen. This…

Goodbye to batteries and power sockets

Production often comes to a standstill until the error has finally been pinpointed – and that can take hours. The causes are legion; in many cases it is all…

New Superconductors Present New Mysteries, Possibilities

Johns Hopkins University researchers and colleagues in China have unlocked some of the secrets of newly discovered iron-based high-temperature superconductors,…

Robotic Arm Combines Manipulation of Objects with Mobility

Movies portray robots that can move through the world as easily as humans, and use their hands to operate everything from dishwashers to computers with ease….

Novel ‘Noise Thermometry’ May Help Redefine International Unit of Temperature

The system is nearly precise enough now to help update some of the crucial underpinnings of science, including the 54-year-old definition of the Kelvin, the…

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