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Two Nebraska electrical districts will be sharing about $2.3 million in federal stimulus dollars that are aimed at digitizing power systems.
The White House auto recovery czar will meet in Detroit with energy workers and political leaders to discuss a local $83 million federal stimulus grant that's part of a $3.4 billion effort to modernize the U.S. power grid.
The Electric Power Board based in Chattanooga is getting a big chunk of federal stimulus money, $111 million that will pay for expanding a smart electric grid in its service area.
Indiana is getting about $39 million in federal grants to help modernize the state's utility operations and local electrical grids.
Hawaii is getting $5.3 million in federal stimulus money that will be used for projects modernizing the state's power grids.
Power company Duke Energy said Tuesday it has been awarded federal grants of $204 million, much of it to go toward modernizing its utility operations in Indiana and Ohio.
Idaho Power Co. and Avista Corp. are in line to get millions in federal dollars to modernize transmission lines, make the power grid more efficient and create new jobs to do it.
The state of Maine is going to get almost $96 million to modernize the state's electrical grid.
Baltimore Gas and Electric hopes to roll out new smart meters over the next three years that can save customers money and ease strains on the power system.
Efforts to bring Vermont's electrical grid into the 21st Century is getting a big boost.
President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.
A 4-square-mile patch of Maui in the nation's most fossil-fuel dependent state soon will be home to a new kind of power grid, one that saves energy by turning off household appliances when electricity is expensive and makes better use of wind and solar power.
vThe Coming Energy RevolutionSmart-grid technology will bring huge savings to companies as varied as Cisco, PG&E, and Cargill, and to consumers, too. But who will foot the bill?
Power company Duke Energy Corp. has chosen Convergys Corp. to provide billing and other services for the new advanced meters Duke wants to start rolling out to its four million customers, the companies said Tuesday.
A list of utility companies currently working with Ford Motor Co. on intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control systems that will enable electric cars to "talk" to local power grids:
Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday its future electric cars will "talk" to power grids across the country, allowing car owners to control when they charge vehicles and for how long.
The race to build a "smarter" electrical grid could have a dark side. Security experts are starting to show the dangers of equipping homes and businesses with new meters that enable two-way communication with utilities.
A Massachusetts company says the federal government has approved a $43 million loan guarantee to help finance a 20-megawatt energy storage system for New York's electrical grid.
Thomas Alva Edison, meet the Internet. More than a century after Edison invented a reliable light bulb, the nation's electricity distribution system, an aging spider web of power lines, is poised to move into the digital age.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke say the Obama administration plans to move aggressively to establish technology standards needed for modernizing the electric power grid.
Spies hacked into the U.S. electric grid and left behind computer programs that would let them disrupt service, exposing potentially catastrophic vulnerabilities in key pieces of national infrastructure, a former U.S. government official said Wednesday.
A high-tech power cable designed to prevent rolling blackouts caused by everything from a wayward squirrel to terrorists is being readied for New York City's financial district.
With all the talk about a new fleet of electric cars coming down the pike, Jacob in Denver is wondering: Is the nation's power grid really ready for all these vehicles?
The electricity grid, power plants and refineries face increasing threats from computer hackers who could cause major disruptions and economic chaos, congressional investigators say.
The watchdog that oversees North America's power grid says the full promise of renewable fuels cannot be harnessed without first building more power lines that can carry this cleaner energy to consumers.
Energy hub to tap supconductor cables for solar and wind | Green Tech - CNET NewsA project scheduled to be disclosed on Tuesday will propose using superconducting cables to transport renewable energy from the middle of the country to different corners of the U.S.
Electric grid still very vulnerable to electromagnetic weaponry "Electromagnetic pulse is hardly a household term. But perhaps it should be.
AC solar panels: One step closer to DIY solar?"GreenRay's AC Solar Module will turn out electricity that meshes with household alternating current and voltage.
Wind farms will be a monument to an age when our leaders collectively went off their heads "Let us be clear: Britain is facing an unprecedented crisis. Before long, we will lose 40 per cent of our generating capacity.
The Wind Energy Industry Tells the Truth as evidenced... Renewable Energy World 'Renewable Energy a 'Finance-driven' Industry'
Twitter Unofficial RedesignThe point of this redesign is to improve twitter management page with some partial grid design, more tweets per visual page, better typography … everything is done with some CSS.
1 line CSS Grid FrameworkThis is the challenge of writing entire CSS layout system with one line CSS class.
The Case for a Unified National Smart GridThe Problem: The US electricity transmission and distribution system – or 'grid' -- is in critical need of an upgrade.
How a "smart charger" could ease transition to electric carsImagine all the folks on the waiting list for the Chevy Volt or a plug-in Toyota Prius plugged in their cars at once. The result? Blackout, as the world's largest machine (otherwise known as the electric grid) is overloaded.
China, Russia Hack US Electrical GridA cyber-attack on US electrical grids shows how much more must be done to protect critical systems.
French Physicist Wins $1.4 Million Religion PrizeIn a nominating letter, Nidhal Guessoum, chair of physics at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, wrote that d'Espagnat "has constructed a coherent body of work which shows why it is credible that the human mind is capable of perceiving deeper realities."
Former CIA director stresses the importance of renewable energy | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee DemocratRenewable energy is important to national security, according to former CIA director James Woolsey
Google redesign (Google in a grid)Google line based results have served us well all these years. Line based results are great for text. But with increasing internet speed line based result are little outdated. Often we have pictures, videos (maybe sounds one day) inside the search result.
Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?A "grid of streets" on the seabed at one of the proposed locations of the lost city of Atlantis has been spotted on Google Ocean.
Stimulus Big Winner: Battery ManufacturingProvisions in the Congressional stimulus bill could help jump-start a new, multibillion-dollar industry in the United States for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrids and electric vehicles and for storing energy from the electrical grid to enable the widespread use of rene …
Without a radically expanded and smarter electrical grid, wind and solar will remain niche power sources.Like all electrical grids, the one that Vattenfall manages must continually match power production to demand from homes, offices, and factories. The challenge is to maintain a stable power supply while incorporating electricity from a source as erratic as wind.
Catching the Currents: Tidal PowerTidal power doesn't get the attention — or the venture capital — that higher-profile renewable energy sources such as solar or biofuels do, but there's a lot of energy waiting to be tapped in the motion of the ocean.
Science's Alternative to an Intelligent Creator: the Multiverse Theory | DISCOVERPhysicists don't like coincidences. They like even less the notion that life is somehow central to the universe, and yet recent discoveries are forcing them to confront that very idea.
World oil prices higher after OPEC refuses to rule out more cuts - Yahoo! NewsOPEC plans to cut production further.
The Manhattan Project of 2009This is the best book ever on the subject of energy independence. Our country's economy has suffered a great deal due to the high cost of fuel this past year.
Why There Can't Be a Theory of Everything | LiveScienceBasically, Wolpert — building on previous work by Alan Turing — formalized a description of "inference machines," i.e. machines capable of arriving at inferences about the world (human beings are one example of such machines).
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Grid of 100,000 computers heralds new internet dawnA network of 100,000 computers providing the greatest data processing capacity yet unleashed has been created to cope with information pouring from the world's largest machine.
The Grid We Live In - Cosmic Log - msnbc.comThe LHC could help scientists look behind the curtain and study the "water" in which we live: the very fabric of the Grid. If that sounds mysterious, it is. Here's an edited Q&A that dives into the depths of the Grid concept... More Articles
IGN: Grid Expands Its GarageWhen Codemasters released its new driving game Grid this summer, car fans rejoiced. Some of the world's highest-performing automobiles were included in the game, lovingly rendered all.
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