Scientists Turn Cow Waste into Electricity
Researchers used microbes found in cow stomachs and dung to power fuel cells. Scientists have generated renewable electricity using natural materials that are cheap and plentiful - cow manure and stomach juices. Microbes living in the rumen ... [... more]
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Powerful New Map: Where the Wind Blows
A new map highlights spots where there is enough wind to provide electricity to the whole world âEUR" and then some. Map of global wind speeds observed at 80 m and averaged over all days of the year 2000 at locations with 20 or more valid ... [... more]
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Electricity pylon near a bridge, California, USA
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Electricity and Wiring Diagrams for HVAC
This book provides a comprehensive but simple review of electricity and electronics along with the coverage of many circuits and wiring diagrams of operating HVAC/R systems. Gives technicians in the field of modern HVAC/R all they need to be successful. [... more]
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Power of Pee Runs a Battery
Scientists have developed a way to turn urine samples like these into electricity to power small diagnostic kits. Credit: AP Photo / Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini Just a few drops of urine on the copper chloride paper layer starts a chemical ... [... more]
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Electricity pylons near a dam, Hoover Dam, Nevada, USA
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Pee Power: Researcher Says Urine Deserves Separate Treatment
Toilets would all have to be replaced, but electricity would be saved. Separating urine from the rest of sewage would save electricity at treatment facilities, says Jac Wilsenach, who is getting his Ph. D. by studying the idea. Among the ... [... more]
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All Earth's Electricity Mustered to Destroy an Aluminum Can
Actually, four times that much is used. The can didn't have a chance. At a government test site in Nevada last week, scientists generated a brief electrical pulse four times as powerful as all the electricity on Earth. The 650-ton Atlas Pulsed ... [... more]
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New Flexible Material Conducts Electricity
The polyaniline they made can conduct electricity at ultra-cold temperatures, and duplicates traits heretofore found only in pure metallic materials. A new type of plastic-based polyaniline, a polymer that has the same characteristics as metal, ... [... more]
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Body Movement Generates Electricity in Miniature Device
A new class of nanogenerator aims to produce electricity while being smaller and less toxic than traditional batteries. Zhong Lin Wang holds a sample nanowire array that can produce electricity from mechanical energy. Credit: Gary Meek/Georgia ... [... more]
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Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the ...
Well written and interesting: This book, a popular account of a number of things that relate to electricity and electronics, reads very well and I found it to be one of those gripping books that one wants to finish. The author makes a few claims that I [... more]
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Delmar's Standard Textbook of Electricity
TONS of mistakes, typos, incorrect formulas in EVERY chapter!: This is an AWFUL textbook. One person in our class has the 2nd edition, and it doesn't have any of these mistakes! The THIRD edition is a piece of GARBAGE! It was so difficult trying to [... more]
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