According to Accenture, a consultancy, there are about 90 smart-grid projects around the world today.
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Why donate time and computing processes for cancer research through the World Community Grid project, of course.
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Samsung pitted the famous "bounce back" feature against an old PocketPC interface called LaunchTile, which allowed users to navigate through 36 applications by zooming in and out and a panning across a grid-like "world view" of said apps.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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Meanwhile, the FDA approved the world's first bionic eye and biotech researchers developed a painless sugar-covered vaccine bandage that could replace needles and doesn't require refrigeration -- which opens up groundbreaking applications for off-grid locations in the developing world.
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There are already over 90 smart grid pilots under way around the world and expectations are high.
The SeaGen project in Northern Ireland is the largest grid connected tidal turbine in the world.
With more than 175 member companies around the world, The Green Grid seeks to unite global industry efforts, create a common set of metrics, and develop technical resources and educational tools to further its goals.
It is critical that America modernize its electric grid if it is to lead the world and create jobs in the clean-energy economy of the future.
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We will build on the work that's being done in places like Boulder, Colorado, a community that is on pace to be the world's first Smart Grid city.
The current 10-year railway ministry bonds are yielding 5.2%, compared with 5.04% for the same type of debt issued by the State Grid Corp. of China, the world's largest utility by revenue.
In other news, the world of renewable energy is jolting for joy as Southwest Wind Power unveiled the world's first fully smart grid-enabled windturbine.
Specialists say out of 30 or so areas in the visual cortex, only one shows any grid-like relationship to something in the real world.
In July, Denmark announced plans to deploy the world's most extensive smart-grid infrastructure, which could make distributed energy the country's primary source of electricity before long.
St Louis is a city of the east, like Philadelphia, with its denser grid of streets and its German immigrants (the world's biggest brewery is here).
Now GE sells wind turbines, smart grid systems and oil and gas technology around the world, as well as the big gas power turbines that made it an industry leader in the U.S. a long time ago.
F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has now backed Honda to return to the front of the grid in partnership with McLaren, which lost former world champion Lewis Hamilton to Brawn's Mercedes team after last season and has struggled this year.
The 2012 season will is see a total of six former world champions line-up on the grid, with Raikonnen and Vettel being joined by Mercedes' seven-time winner Michael Schumacher, Ferrari's two-time champion Fernando Alonso and McLaren's championship-winning duo of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.
Mark Webber in the second Red Bull edged out seven-time world champion Schumacher with Button eighth on the grid.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
Many of these devices are produced with the assumption that grid electricity is "infinite" so, especially in the developing world, there is little incentive to make more efficient products.
"A high-tech world can no longer afford a low-tech electricity grid, " says Edison International (nyse: EIX - news - people ) Chairman John Bryson, who testified before the subcommittee Thursday.
Another veteran on the grid next year will be Finland's Kimi Raikkonen , the 2007 world champion, who is returning to the sport after a two-season absence.
Vettel will be in distinguished company on the grid when the season begins in Australia next month, with six former world champions competing in the same season for the first time.
Early evidence shows that the Leafs and Volts of the world can be trickle charged overnight with relatively low demand on the grid.
Of his podiums in 2012, March's Malaysian race was arguably Perez's pinnacle to date, scything his way from 10th on the grid to come within a whisker of beating Ferrari's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to the win, while he also finished second behind Hamilton at Monza in September.
The power stations frantically being built in China to feed the country's new electricity grid will be relatively efficient and thus less polluting than older coal plants around the world.
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Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
World champion Valentino Rossi remained upright throughout, and pinched second place on the grid with his last lap.
Sebastian Vettel will start third on the grid after young Lotus driver Romain Grosjean, 26, snatched second place from the reigning world champion in the final seconds of the day's racing.
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