Collaborate Disseminate
Australian grids have long run a two-tiered pricing scheme for electricity. In many jurisdictions, regular electricity was charged at a certain rate. Meanwhile, you could get cheaper electricity for certain …read more Continue reading Austraila’s Controlled Loads Are In Hot Water
We think of the power we generate as coming from all these different kinds of sources. Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind… so varied! And yet they all fundamentally come down …read more Continue reading Solar Chimneys: Viable Energy Solution Or A Lot Of Hot Air?
With climate change concerns front of mind, the world is desperate to get to net-zero carbon output as soon as possible. While direct electrification is becoming popular for regular passenger …read more Continue reading Japan Wants to Decarbonize With The Help of Ammonia
Gripped as we are at the time of this writing by a historic heatwave, it’s hard for those of us in the western United States to picture a time when …read more Continue reading Black Starts: How the Grid Gets Restarted
There’s more than one way to light up a strip of LEDs. Have you tried building your own hydroelectric power plant to do it? Well, now you can. Replicating [Matic Markovič]’s entry into the 2020 Hackaday Prize is bound to teach you something, if not many things, about the way …read more
Continue reading Model Hydroelectric Plant is an Illuminating Educational Tool
Generating electricity out of thin air is the fantasy for our modern technology dependant world, but still falls squarely in the world of science fiction. However, researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst claim that they have found a way to do exactly that, using protein nano-wires to produce tiny …read more
A simple attack on an unpatched server could have been catastrophic for the Utah-based utility. Continue reading Solar, Wind Power Utility Disrupted in Rare Cyberattack
[Josh Starnes] had a dream. A dream of a device that could easily and naturally be activated to generate power in an emergency, or just for the heck of it. That device takes in urea, which is present in urine, and uses it to generate a useful electrical charge. [Josh] has, of course, named this device the P Cell.
An early proof of concept uses urine to create a basic galvanic cell with zinc and copper electrodes, but [Josh] has other ideas for creating a useful amount of electricity with such a readily-available substance. For example, the urea could be …read more
Continue reading The “P Cell” is Exactly What You Might Suspect
via Rob Knake, writing at the Council on Foreign Relations’ online outlet: Foreign Affairs and in the Snapshot section, comes this astute examination of the co-called cyberwarfare space’s soft underbelly – power generation. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt… Continue reading The Next Battleground
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