Sentences with phrase «researchers said the power»

Researchers said the power, voltage, and lifetime of the battery can be improved by adjusting the geometry and materials used.

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«The potion is not a panacea — it does not have a magic power against all diseases,» said a researcher experienced in cockroach - related medicines at the Institute of Materia Medica at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) in Beijing.

PARIS (AP)-- Researchers say they've discovered a worrying breed of power grid - wrecking software, saying the program was likely responsible for a brief blackout that hit Kiev late last year.

«Some EU members, especially Germany, are concerned about Chinese investment in the so - called periphery of the union, as well as about the acquisition of strategically sensitive infrastructure such as ports, power plants and key technologies,» Igor Rogelja, a researcher at the Lau China Institute at King's College London, said.

The technology giant said Thursday that several companies and universities have joined its initiative to create practical uses for quantum computing, a nascent technology that researchers believe could eventually surpass conventional computers in speed and power.

Security flaws would have let potential hackers shut down power plants, water systems and solar power facilities remotely, researchers say.

«We have the cleanest power sector we know how to make, and there's still a long way to go,» said Wara, the Stanford researcher.

You run out of power - sector emission reductions before you get even moderate decarbonization,» said Michael Wara, a senior researcher at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment.

The new concept can now provide a powerful tool for developing new, better - performing materials that could lead to dramatic improvements in the amount of power that could be stored in a battery of a given size or weight, as well as improved safety, the researchers say.

Evangelists say it has the power to upend entire economic systems; others, such as Emin Gün Sirer, a blockchain researcher at Cornell University, warn that while the technical core is «fascinating and disruptive, there's also a lot of hokum out there.»

Dr. Anastasia Shcherbakova, clinical assistant professor of finance and managerial economics in the Naveen Jindal School of Management, said the researchers used the 2011 Fukushima crisis in Japan as a natural experiment to evaluate responses of U.S. and European investors to a shifting view of nuclear power.

«The proposed hydricity concept represents a potential breakthrough solution for continuous and efficient power generation,» said Rakesh Agrawal, Purdue University's Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering, who worked with chemical engineering doctoral student Emre Gençer and other researchers.

The traditional methods used in materials science analysis, like high - powered electron microscopy and spectroscopy, do not combine chemical insights with the spatial resolution of IR imaging, the researchers said, so they can only provide average chemical measurements.

However, researchers say that constructing a fusion power plant has proven to be a daunting task, in no small part because there have been no materials that could survive the grueling conditions found in the core of a fusion reactor.

The funding agencies that define the metrics of researchers» success have the power to motivate change in this treatment, she said.

The bi-stable feature provides a low power consumption display that can store an image for several years,» said researcher Abhishek Srivastava, one of the authors of the paper.

Dr Samer Aldhaher, a researcher from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London, said: «There are a number of scenarios where wirelessly transferring power could improve drone technology.

Once that happens — and its predictive power is validated — the approach could be folded into weather forecast models, researchers say.

These findings, published today in the journal Nature Communications, demonstrate the viability of a process called carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a solution to reducing carbon emissions from coal and gas - fired power stations, say researchers.

Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached waters offshore Canada, researchers said today at the annual American Geophysical Union's Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Contrary to claims by critics of wind power, Spanish researchers say, the turbines do reduce carbon dioxide emissions significantly even though the wind does not blow continuously

«What we used to do in years, we can now achieve in months,» said gene researcher and immunologist Klaus Rajewsky, indicating the power of this new genome - editing technology.

Researchers led by Yang Yang, the Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas, Jr., Professor of Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the new cells could serve as a power - generating layer on windows and smartphone displays without compromising users» ability to see through the surface.

«At the time Hugh started this, if you had asked anyone in prosthetics, they would have told you that the ankle requires so much power that you could not build a lightweight, compact, quiet one,» says Bruce Deffenbaugh, a longtime researcher at the MIT Media Lab who worked on the project.

Hot power box A SOFC converts a fuel's chemical energy into electricity, says Bob Stokes, a longtime fuel - cell researcher and CEO of Versa Power Systems in Littleton, Colo., one of the up - and - coming developers of Spower box A SOFC converts a fuel's chemical energy into electricity, says Bob Stokes, a longtime fuel - cell researcher and CEO of Versa Power Systems in Littleton, Colo., one of the up - and - coming developers of SPower Systems in Littleton, Colo., one of the up - and - coming developers of SOFCs.

Researchers taking measurements in an urban environment using standard electric power might be expected to get hundreds or even thousands of data measurements; at high altitude on a volcano, says Mather, tens or less may be considered reasonable.

Now protected from humans, elk and other mammals flourish near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, researchers say.

But all these problems could be overcome within fifty years, say many researchers, and fusion power will provide cheap electricity.

«Our brains are three times larger, have many more cells and therefore more processing power than chimpanzee or monkey,» said Andre M.M. Sousa, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of neuroscientist Nenad Sestan and co-lead author of the study.

This fuel — a mix of hydrogen and boron — is harder to react, but Tri Alpha researchers say it avoids many of the problems likely to confront conventional fusion power plants.

«Our simple «diode» panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt, which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption,» said Norihiro Shimoi, the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.

«Engineers traditionally design devices to be fast and use as little power as possible,» said Jonathan Valamehr, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.

There are four main categories that we associate with the content of our bank accounts, the researchers say: security, power, love, and freedom.

Saket Navlakha, a post-doctoral researcher in CMU's Machine Learning Department, said this approach is particularly helpful in understanding how networks respond to cascading failures, whether it be an overloaded power grid or a computer network being overwhelmed by fake identities in a so - called sybil attack.

Jiang Kejun, a researcher from the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that power producers in China face difficulties in passing along their emissions costs to fossil fuel consumers, due to the country's fixed electricity prices.

This year's milestone shows that renewables are becoming a major source of electricity in the U.S. and can no longer be considered «alternative» energy, said Christopher Clack, CEO of the power grid modeling firm Vibrant Clean Energy and a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher.

A larger sample, he says, gives researchers a better predictive power about the water that the system contains.

«A single power plant has the potential to stress surface supplies in a local area,» said co-author James Meldrum, a researcher in the Western Water Assessment, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and CIRES.

'' [Our work] demonstrates a new approach for efficient energy conversation from a dc electric field to coherent, high - power and electrically tunable terahertz emission by using hybrid semiconductors,» said Andrii Iurov, a researcher with a dual appointment at the University of New Mexico's Center for High Technology Materials and the City University of New York.

Practicing with a heavier bat significantly slows down the velocity of the bat head — depriving the batter of slugging power, exercise researchers at California State University, Fullerton, say.

«Many researchers are trying to get rid of leakage current, but we are exploiting it to build an ultra-low power current source,» Hui said.

While chip - sized atomic clocks (CSACs) are commercially available, the researchers say these low - power devices — about the size of a matchbox — drift over time, and are less accurate than fountain clocks, the much larger atomic clocks that set the world's standard.

Germany's plans to shut down the last of its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022 is a huge chance for the country's researchers, Matthias Kleiner, head of the German Research Foundation, the country's largest funding agency, said in an interview with ScienceInsider.

Withdrawal from the accord and the EPA's plan to repeal the Clean Power Plan will only make the chances of achieving the goal more remote, the researchers say.

The researchers say that the first of the two NJDEP's petitions shows that the 30,465 tons of sulfur dioxide emitted by the plant in 2009 was more than double the sulfur dioxide emissions from all power - generating facilities in New Jersey combined.

In this role, the power - brokers encourage cooperation, much to the benefit of everyone involved, say the researchers.

But researchers say the nanofibers» huge surface area should allow for more harvesting power than the current plastic thread method.

«The integration of renewable resources into microgrids is an active area of research,» Erin Whitney, a researcher at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks said.

The source of that rain, say the researchers, was coal combustion — the main source of power in southwestern China.