Wind farms have delivered 30 percent of all new American power generating capacity for the last five years. Wind also supplied more than 4 percent of all U.S. electricity for the first time in 2013, according to new data published by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). States like Iowa and South Dakota now get more than a quarter of their power from wind.
The AWEA study also found that the amount of power generated by wind turbines grew by 200 percent since 2008, “exceeding capacity growth and making [wind] electricity cheaper than ever.”
Dormi is an Android app that enables anyone to turn an old smartphone into baby monitor, delivering notifications straight to parents’ working mobiles.
Chances of obesity twice as likely for individuals at highest genetic risk
The results show that eating fried food more than four times a week had twice as big an effect on body mass index (BMI) for those with the highest genetic risk scores compared with lower scores. In other words, genetic makeup can inflate the effects of bad diet, says an accompanying editorial.
2013 saw the Internet of Things capture the imagination – and financing dollars – of investors to the tune of $1.1B across 153 deals. And in a sign of growing investor interest across the IoT ecosystem, financing transactions to the IoT market grew in each successive quarter of 2013 to hit an eight-quarter high in Q4 2013.
When Garthen Leslie worked at the Department of Energy, his job was to conserve resources. But at home, his air conditioner was wasting them. “I was tired of choosing between wasting energy or suffering through the stuffy summer heat.” His summertime dilemma got him thinking about developing a smart AC that he could control from his office.
Leslie came up with a sleek design and pitched the idea to Quirky, an online community of some 2,000 designers. Quirky and GE, which provided AC engineering know-know, helped him improve and finish the machine in just a few of months. Called Aros, it will be available for sale to everyone on Amazon, starting today.
Lorsque l'on pense au stockage de l'énergie, on pense à une pile, une batterie ou encore aux récentes méthodes de stockage de l'hydrogène. Mais il existe bien d'autres solutions. L'une d'entre elles est l'utilisation de matériaux à changement de phase (MCP ou PCM, phase-change material) [1] qui peuvent être utilisés par exemple pour optimiser l'utilisation des panneaux solaires pour chauffer l'eau [2]. Ces matériaux sont au coeur des travaux réalisés par l'équipe des professeurs Eran Sher [3] et Daniel Weihs [4] de la Faculty of Aerospace Engineering du Technion - Institute of Technology [5].
A new wave of medical technologies offers novel business opportunities. In this report, Silicon Valley Comes to the UK and Nesta present a snapshot of the early breakers.
