Their winters feel abnormally cold, the summers sweltering hot and their electricity bills never seem to be close to affordable. More than 140,000 Hong Kong households live in cramped, stuffy ...

Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S.

On Sept. 26, researchers will convene at Idaho National Laboratory for a live demonstration of the Real-Time Super Lab concept, which shows how electricity can be rerouted across vast distances to ...

THAT the progress of electricity during the last decade has been great appears in many ways; but none shows this progress more strikingly than a comparison of a new and up-to-date book on practical ...

How will our future electricity grid remain stable and affordable? SWITCH is a small scale lab in the middle of the Flevopolder, but the results of the experiments that are planned here are of great ...

The Department of Defense's new Ground Systems Power and Energy Laboratory (GSPEL) will be one-of-a-kind. Nothing like it exists anywhere else in the world in terms of capabilities and equipment. This ...

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