Wednesday, May 31, 2017
A new study has revealed that as electrical storage technology improves, innovation in both renewables and fossil fuels electricity production is spurred along with a boost in efficiency to the entire electricity sector.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the world’s largest association of technical professionals and they have big goals. Known as the IEEE (pronounced “I-triple-E”), their core purpose is “to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.”
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Monday, September 19, 2016
Many factors play into the health of the US economy but it is nearly impossible to separate energy use from economic growth. Every industry that fuels the US economy relies on an affordable and consistent source of electricity. From farming to the high tech industry, every sector of the economy utilizes electricity in some capacity and would be severely hampered without access to power.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Anyone who doesn’t work in the electric industry may not know that electricity is unique. While electrical current does flow like oil or gas in a pipeline, it cannot easily be stored for later or routed to a particular destination. Electricity has to be generated and delivered at essentially the same time, which is one reason it’s always available when you need it (because it’s always being delivered to your home, whether you’re using it or not).
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
When we’re at home or work, shopping or visiting friends—really, anywhere we go aside from the deep woods, we have instant access to electricity. It seems that electricity is everywhere and forever abundant. So why bother trying to be energy efficient when there’s an endless supply?
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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Have you ever wondered how much electricity a typical household in the US uses and how that might compare to households in other parts of the world? You might guess that homes in the United States use the most energy, and you would almost be right. American homes do use enough electricity to put us at the top of the pack, but our neighbors to the north actually use a little more each day than we do.
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Thursday, May 12, 2016
When people discovered that they could generate power with a water wheel, they also discovered the secret to how batteries store and transfer electric energy.
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Sunday, April 17, 2016
An electric generator converts mechanical energy from an external source into electrical energy. A generator doesn’t create energy. It uses mechanical energy supplied to it from another source to force electric charges present in wire to move through an external electric circuit.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Using electricity as
power is ubiquitous today but of course it wasn’t always the case. The history
of human attempts to harness electricity may go back as far as 600 B.C. when
Thales of Miletus, a Greek philosopher, first studied the effect of rubbing
amber on fur and then being able to attract small objects. His simple
experiments didn’t lead anywhere for hundreds of years—except to give the
phenomenon he witnessed the word: elektron, or amber in Greek.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Take a look at these ‘shocking’ news stories that caught our team members’ eyes.
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