Power and Electrical Engineering

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Positioning system used by iPhone and iPod breached

In January, Skyhook Wireless Inc. announced that Apple would use Skyhook's WiFi Positioning System (WPS) for its popular Map applications. The WPS database…

More safety for cell phone batteries

The advantage of these power storage devices lies in their high energy density and voltage (up to four volts). In terms of safety, however, they have one…

The future of solar-powered houses is clear

Professor John Bell said QUT had worked with a Canberra-based company Dyesol, which is developing transparent solar cells that act as both windows and energy…

Where's the glue?

For more than 20 years since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, scientists have been debating the underlying physical mechanism for this…

Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells

By using a popcorn-ball design — tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres — researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate…

Electricity and gas consumption at a glance

Once a year, someone from the electricity or gas works comes to read the meter. Soon afterwards, the customer receives an invoice listing the power consumption…

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