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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Waterless Product Boils the Perfect Egg

Simon, 23, recently completed his BSc (Hons) in Product Design, and originally developed his unique waterless egg boiler as a final year project and is now…

VTT launches gasification test equipment for development of second generation biofuels

In the process, synthesis gas will be refined from biomass for the production of diesel fuels. The extensive test operation that is about to be launched will…

Norway Can Solve the Global Energy Crisis

This is the opinion of Mr. Egil Lillestol, professor at the Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen. The past year he has spent much of his…

Iowa State researchers helping to take the natural gas out of ethanol production

Burning natural gas to produce all that heat is the second largest expense at most ethanol plants — trailing only the cost of the corn used for ethanol…

Solar flares cause GPS failures, possibly devastating for jets and distress calls

Because solar flares — larger-than-normal radiation “burps” by the sun — are generally unpredictable, such failures could be devastating for “safety-of-life”…

MIT engineers work to improve nuclear power generation

With U.S. electricity demand projected to increase by nearly 50 percent over the next 25 years, the Bush administration and others see nuclear power as an…

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