Category: electricity
In 1996, a power failure in California rippled across the western United States, leaving more than 4 million customers – from Canada to Mexico – without electricity.
G. Jeffrey Snyder, faculty associate at the California Institute of Technology, will give a talk Wednesday (Oct. 21) from 11 a.m. to noon in Room 204 of the Engineering Physics Building on campus.
In 1867, Jules Verne imagined spaceships propelled by the pressure of light. In 1871 James Clerk Maxwell predicted that such pressure actually existed, and in 1900 Pyotr Lebedev confirmed that prediction experimentally.
As the "green"-conscious know, using less energy and biking and walking more are two ways to help fight climate change.
Yale University chemists and engineers will be part of five new federally-funded Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) that are seeking novel ways to tackle the growing energy crisis.
The search for renewable power amounts to attempts to mimic, capture or concentrate the energy produced by nature that is swirling around us constantly into something strong enough to power a factory or a car or millions of televisions.
Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project has initiated an international collaboration with the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and two Chinese universities to address fundamental issues associated with large-scale sequestration of carbon dioxide in China's saline aquifers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today marked the second full year of successful construction of the Mixed Oxide (MOX) Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Aiken, South Carolina, by launching a new online multimedia kit on NNSA’s website.
