Powering navigational buoys with help of ocean waves
To find a power source for buoys, look no further than the ocean itself.
Aug 4, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies. Its corporate headquarters are at the American Center for Physics in College Park, Maryland, but the institute also has an office in Melville, New York and Beijing, China.
Energy & Green Tech
Data identifies turbine wake clustering, improves wind farm productivity via yaw control
In the wind power industry, optimization of yaw, the alignment of a wind turbine's angle relative to the horizonal plane, has long shown promise for mitigating wake effects that cause a downstream turbine to produce less ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Steering wind turbines creates greater energy potential
As wind passes through a turbine, it creates a wake that decreases the downstream average wind velocity. The faster the spin of the turbine blades relative to the wind speed, the greater the impact on the downstream wake ...
Jun 29, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Julia programming language tackles differential equation challenges
Emerging open-source programming language Julia is designed to be fast and easy to use.
Jun 22, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Wake steering potentially boosts energy production at US wind plants
Wake steering is a strategy employed at wind power plants involving misaligning upstream turbines with the wind direction to deflect wakes away from downstream turbines, which consequently increases the net production of ...
May 18, 2021
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Engineering
Solar-powered desalination unit shows great promise
Despite the vast amount of water on Earth, most of it is nonpotable seawater. Freshwater accounts for only about 2.5% of the total, so much of the world experiences serious water shortages.
Apr 27, 2021
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Engineering
Tiny brains grown in 3D-printed bioreactor
Scientists from MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have grown small amounts of self-organizing brain tissue, known as organoids, in a tiny 3-D-printed system that allows observation while they grow and develop. ...
Apr 6, 2021
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Engineering
Thermal power nanogenerator created without solid moving parts
As environmental and energy crises become increasingly more common occurrences around the world, a thermal energy harvester capable of converting abundant thermal energy—such as solar radiation, waste heat, combustion of ...
Mar 31, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Shining, colored LED lighting on microalgae for next-generation biofuel
As ethanol, biodiesel, and other biofuels continue to present challenges, such as competing with food security or lacking the technology for more efficient and low-cost production, microalgae are gaining momentum as a biofuel ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Low-level jets create winds of change for turbines
As one of the leading sources of clean and renewable energy, global wind power capacity has increased more than fivefold over the past decade, leading to larger turbines and pushing wind technology to its limits.
Feb 23, 2021
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