Collaborate Disseminate
Superb journalism in the form of an article posted by Ellen Nakashima and Aaron Gregg of The Washington Post detailing critical work of United States National Security Agency trained malware hunters – now the co-founders of Dragos, a highly respected … Continue reading ICS/SCADA, The Protectors
As a civilization, we are proficient with the “boil water, make steam” method of turning various heat sources into power we feed our infrastructure. Away from that, we can use solar panels. But what if direct sunlight is not available either? A team at MIT demonstrated how to extract power from daily temperature swings.
Running on temperature difference between day and night is arguably a very indirect form of solar energy. It could work in shaded areas where solar panels would not. But lacking a time machine, or an equally improbable portal to the other side of the planet, how …read more
Continue reading MIT Extracts Power from Temperature Fluctuations
The experience of being a teenager leaves a host of memories, of social awkwardness in the difficult process of not quite being a child any more, of tedious school days, and of team sports seemingly enjoyed only by the few. Wherever in the world you grew up will have lent a particular flavour to your recollections of that period of your life, whether your memories are good or bad.
One surprising common theme in British teenage memories, at least those of a few decades ago, are power stations. In the 1970s and 1980s, the Central Electricity Generating Board had a …read more
A lot, it turns out. But not for very long. Continue reading How Much Energy Could We Really Harvest from an Earthquake?
