More about power (1013)

29-09-2011 | If millions of Germans were to switch to electric cars, would this put an unbearable strain on Germany's power generation capacity? Not at a...

15-09-2011 | European energy companies will not be able to finance the transition to a decarbonised power system on their own. They will need the help of...

29-08-2011 | The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has published its scenarios for onshore and offshore wind power deployment in the EU, ahead of t...

10-08-2011 | France’s ‘green vote’ kills shale gas – and targets nuclear power as well By Yves de Saint Jacob France became the first country in Europe...

21-07-2011 | France became the first country in Europe to explicitly outlaw hydraulic fracturing. The move is symptomatic of a wider change in French pub...

3-07-2011 | The electric car is everybody’s darling but there are still technical difficulties to overcome before we’ll witness full-scale implementatio...

1-07-2011 | Keen cyclists will no doubt have sometimes thought that it would be nice to have some kind of on-board power supply to charge a mobile devic...

1-07-2011 | Even though convector heaters are quite heavy consumers of electricity, this can be reduced by fitting a power controller between the heater...

1-07-2011 | Occasionally you come across some unusual situations when setting up measurement systems. The author once had to set up a system to register...

1-07-2011 | The circuit idea given here serves to switch off lights and other appliances centrally with a minimum of fuss.