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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Micro microwave does pinpoint cooking for miniaturized labs

In a paper in the November 2007 Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering*, the research team led by NIST engineer Michael Gaitan describes for the first…

Hydrogen, the energy vector for the plane of tomorrow

This contamination free technology has taken a crucial role in the development of modern aeronautics and the present objective is the realization of fully…

Self-organizing nanoparticles: a model for tomorrow's nanofactories

In an article in the prestigious journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Professor Lennart Bergström shows how a glass bottle and a simple…

MIT's 'electronic nose' could detect explosives, other hazards

Led by MIT professor Harry Tuller, the researchers have devised a way to print thin sensor films onto a microchip, a process that could eventually allow for…

Nuclear Power Worldwide: Status and Outlook

The IAEA makes two annual projections concerning the growth of nuclear power, a low and a high. The low projection assumes that all nuclear capacity that is…

Simplifying oil and gas exploration:The Golden Zone is about to become a key concept in the petroleum and gas industry.

The Golden Zone is the name of a an underground zone where temperatures range between 60 and 120 C. The name refers to a new discovery that 90 per cent of the…

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