The ROCCAT Power-Grid turns a smartphone into a fully customizable remote control for a PC.
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And not only controls Power-Grid the PC - it works in reverse as well.
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There have been major earthquakes, floods, power-grid failures, and Internet outages for decades.
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These major nodes are not only critical to the nation's power-grid and telecommunications capability, but would be extremely difficult and time consuming to rebuild or repair.
The young inventor envisages PaveGen systems being used to power off-grid appliances such as public lighting, illuminated street maps and advertising, and to be installed in areas of dense human traffic such as city centers, underground stations and school corridors.
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Wind farms will take a decade to implement as a major contributor to the electric-power grid system nationwide.
Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.
The result could be better internet access for customers and, just possibly, a step towards the intelligent, self-healing power grid of tomorrow.
Without the need to electrically charge devices--either via outlets or USB cables--users could at last start to break free from on-the-grid power connections.
When a disaster like Hurricane Sandy knocks out the lights, it's essential to have a source of off-grid power for communication devices like cell phones and radios -- to this end we showcased several portable charging technologies that generate renewable energy.
Xtreme, which has attracted backing from venture capital firms and corporate investors like Dow Chemical, Fluor and BP Alternative Energy, is developing large-scale digital power systems for renewable energy and micro-grid applications.
The fastest-growing technology is grid-connected solar electric power, which saw a 53% increase in installed capacity during 2009.
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The investments will, among other things, hook up new wind farms and nuclear power stations to the electricity grid to replace traditional coal-fired power stations, and enable more liquefied natural gas imported from Qatar and elsewhere to be added to the gas network as North Sea gas supplies dwindle.
Through an innovative regulatory process set up by the government and the regulator, the main barriers to the deployment of micro-power, such as grid access, are being addressed, and Britain is one of the first countries to have a clear, non-discriminatory access regulation for micro-generators that is supported by the regulator.
Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.
Masayoshi Son, a wireless tycoon, plans to build huge solar-power stations and a new grid to connect Japanese prefectures.
Two, they can substitute grid-based power with self-generated power, i.e. power produced onsite using solar panels, fuel cells or whatever that never flows through the grid.
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The top 10 also includes American Superconductor (47.5%), which provides power grid technologies, solid-state drive maker STEC (34.4%), and MIPS Technologies (32.5%), which has a 3-year EPS growth rate of 71%.
Future packages for a year's computing power might have the customer pay up front, pay later, pay now and run down an account, or draw computing power from a general-purpose "grid" of computers run by Sun.
Judging by their tentative and speculative answers, we are still years away from seeing significant, large-scale improvements to the power grid.
For some off-griders, it's a matter of having little or no impact on the environment -- literally living off the power grid.
For decades the U.S. power grid has been grossly under-capitalized, which is at least part of the reason why it routinely operate near the limits of its abilities.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan Several dozen militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades attacked a power grid station in northwestern Pakistan before dawn Tuesday, killing seven people and taking four hostage, police said.
In the daytime, when the sun is at its strongest, solar panels like these and electricity stored in car batteries will be able to power the grid with affordable, emission-free energy.
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We can generate clean, renewable electricity (often in low-demand regions) and get it to where it's needed by building a national smart grid to distribute clean power -- like a high-voltage Internet.
Those demand spikes are unavoidable mini-disasters for energy companies -- their own grid doesn't have the power on hand, and the utility has to buy it elsewhere -- competing with other utilities trying to keep the lights on for their customers.
Transfer data packets from long-haul fiber-optic networks to the electrical power grid and shoot the data (alongside electricity) straight into people's homes.
For example, the New York State Public Service Commission includes customers who agree to switch from grid-provided electricity to power provided from onsite generation to receive incentive payments under most DSM programs.
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Other possible plans include rewarding firms for maintaining stand-by capacity to supply power to the grid in an emergency, and preventing the construction of new coal stations that do not have some way of capturing and storing their planet-heating emissions.
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The electric power grid should be a catalyst for long-term economic growth.
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