Energy

July 29, 2021

How to Build a Home Decor Brand With Content Marketing

by rebecca jordan in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News, Engineering Recruiting, Environment, Industry News, Robotics, Semiconductors

The value of the home decor market continues to rise year after year. So does the value of the furniture market. It’s easy to understand why. People need homes in which to live, and they need to decorate those homes. However, because this market is so lucrative, it can also be fairly competitive. If you […]

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July 26, 2021

6 Creative Business Ideas for Jewelry Startups

by rebecca jordan in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News, Engineering Recruiting, Environment, Industry News, Robotics, Semiconductors

The jewelry industry is undeniably profitable. More and more entrepreneurs and businessmen are creating their own jewelry startups, especially during this year where having your own business became more of a necessity. But of course, starting a jewelry startup doesn’t automatically guarantee you that you’ll have a successful business endeavor. There’s more to it that […]

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July 19, 2021

Tomorrow's Hydropower Begins With Retrofitting Today's Dams

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

With wind and solar prices dropping, it can be easy to forget that two-thirds of the globe’s renewable energy comes from hydropower. But hydro’s future is muddled with ghostly costs—and sometimes dubious environmental consequences. Most dams weren’t, in fact, actually built for hydropower. They help stop floods and supply farms and families with water, but […]

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July 15, 2021

The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

How I loved the Macintosh Portable, Apple’s first laptop, which I bought shortly after it was introduced in 1989. Today, my infatuation seems pretty incomprehensible, though. The thing cost US $7,300. Its display had no backlight. And, most crushingly, the unit weighed more than 7 kilograms (16 pounds)—much of that weight from a lead-acid battery. […]

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July 15, 2021

Hydrogen Battery “Sponges” Store Solar for the Grid

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

A novel project in Australia aims to harness the sun’s energy in two different ways: by storing it and by using it to produce green hydrogen. Dozens of solar farms in the country’s southeastern region are slated to use “hydrogen batteries” in coming years. The dual-purpose devices can fit inside of shipping containers and pack a […]

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July 9, 2021

This Laser Scans Skies for Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

In a world gravely threatened by greenhouse gas emissions, actually measuring those greenhouse gases can be surprisingly tricky. You might need to grab a sample of the air or force it through an analyzer. And many of these techniques can only measure one greenhouse gas or one pollutant at a time. Lasers, however, provide another […]

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July 1, 2021

Safety in the Spotlight: Hendrix Covered Conductors

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

This white paper explores what happens when humans come into physical contact with medium voltage covered conductors under a range of conditions. Safety thresholds, lab tests of charging currents, and CEATI testing of covered conductors are discussed. Authored by experts at Hendrix Aerial Cable Systems.

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June 28, 2021

Engineers: You Can Disrupt Climate Change

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Seven years ago, we published an article in IEEE Spectrum titled “What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change.” We described what we had learned as Google engineers who worked on a well-intentioned but ultimately failed effort to cut the cost of renewable energy. We argued that incremental improvements to existing energy technologies weren’t […]

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June 25, 2021

Michelin Puts Puffy Sails on Cargo Ships

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

The white sailboat outside of Michelin Group’s Swiss office doesn’t have a sail at all. Instead, it has a wing. The puffy, inflatable structure towers over the vessel, resembling an enormous meringue with a spine of stiff peaks. At sea, it cuts through the wind like an airplane wing, sending the sailboat flying across the […]

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June 23, 2021

Why Does the World Harbor So Many Different Voltages, Plugs, and Sockets?

by Rahul Rao in Energy, Engineering, Engineering News

Standardization makes life easier, but it is often impossible to introduce it to systems that have a messy evolutionary history. Electricity supply is a case in point. Edison’s pioneering 1882 Pearl Street station transmitted direct current at 110 volts, and the same voltage was used when alternating current at 60 hertz took over in American […]

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