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Southern California Edison's new mega contract for solar megawatts

You can add another 170,000 homes to the solar capacity that Southern California Edison hopes to support in Southern California. The utility has signed a deal with First Solar to build out two projects in Riverside and San Bernardino counties with a generation capacity of 550 megawatts...

Tags: Renewable Energy, First Solar Inc., San Bernardino, KWh, mW, Southern California Edison, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

RF Calculator 1.0 (Mobile)

RF Calculator is useful for any telecommunications student or professional. RF Calculator can solve six different formulas, four using either standard or metric forms of measurement. Formulas included are Frenzel zone, free space path loss, conversion from dBm to mW, conversion from mW to dBm, earth bulge, and link budget....

Tags: Mobile, Formula, mW, RF Calculator, Telephony, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Networking

Software downloads 2009-06-30

Big week for utility-driven solar tech investment

Who would have thunk that the erst-while Garden State could be such a big player in solar energy? The way the wind has been blowing literally for the past two days, it's pretty clear that wind resources are big. But the sun is far less reliable here in New Jersey....

Tags: New Jersey, Investment, Utility, mW, Solar Electric Power Association, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-02-14

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

It's been so still here in northern New Jersey for the past week that I can't imagine using the technology that I'm going to mention in this post. And yet the wind has been known to bend the trees in my yard, like kelp responding to a tidal surge. So,...

Tags: Alternative Energy, mW, Wind Energy, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-04

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?

Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Telecom & Utilities, Westinghouse, mW, tax, Xcel Energy Inc., renewable energy

Discussion threads 2008-08-18

New ranking of the most solar-friendly utilities

Not surprisingly, California-based utilities boast the highest percentage of solar-sourced power integrated into their electricity portfolios, according to a new report released by the Solar Electric Power Association. Southern California Edison and Pacific, Gas & Electric emerged as the utilities with the largest overall solar capacity by...

Tags: Hawaii, Capacity, mW, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-27

More big money for work on wind. Yes, that's $1 billion.

Finavera Renewables which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia. The money...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Agreement, mW, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-07-22

SCE adds to its solar energy portfolio in deal with eSolar

Everything around me is wilting today, including me. Therefore it seems apt for me to search around for something solar-related to write about. Found this quick update from Southern California Edison, which bills itself as the leading purchaser not provider of solar energy, buying about 90 percent...

Tags: Tower, Solar Energy, mW, SCE, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-06-09

Images: Supersize solar power

Utility-scale solar power plants--using everything from giant reflective dishes to plastic balloons--are changing the look of solar power.Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25. Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried...

Tags: Electricity, Solar Energy, Trough, Photovoltaics, Plant, mW, Solar Power Plant, Arizona Public Service, BrightSource Energy, Concentrator, Stirling Engine Systems, Infinia, It', SolFocus, What', Manufacturing, Telecom & Utilities, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-05-26

Nucleic Acid MW widget 1.0 (Mac)

The Nucleic Acid MW widget allows to calculate the molecular weight of a nucleic acid sequence.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, mW, AbOrygen, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2006-10-05

Additional Resources

Worried about your printing habits? You're not alone.

Worried about your printing habits? You're not alone.??? ?????? ??????????? ??????????????? ???????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????? ??? ?????????? ??????????????????? ????????????????????????????? ?????????????? ?????Worried?No.Concerned?No.Give a s_h_i_t?No.More and more of my "printing" is to PDFs that never turn into paper.What little paper I consume (2 reams per year, at most) is not worth worrying about.For...

Tags: Document management, printing habit, printing, No.

Discussion threads 2009-07-09

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?

Pico projector phones by the end of this year?Good for casual readingI picture myself lying in bed and projecting the pages of an ebook on the ceiling.Display technology is there, but not the powerThe prototype I saw had to be plugged in to project, otherwise it would drain the battery...

Tags: Projectors, Scanners, projector, laser, Pico projector phone, Microvision, image

Discussion threads 2009-07-07

Reliability Analysis of the APC Symmetra MW Power System

This paper is a quantitaive reliability analysis of the APC Symmetra MW UPS performed by MTechnology, Inc. MTech. In contrast to common MTBF calculations based on summing component failure rates, this study used techniques of Probabilistic Risk Assessment PRA to calculate the likelihood of over 680,000 potential failure modes. The...

Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Analysis, Productivity

White papers 2009-04-08

A Twitter primer for administrators

A Twitter primer for administratorsNow if only...I could think of a real reason to convince my friends to get on! I do see the business potential but for individuals and the plain "micro-blogging" concept, not so much...For whatever reason, I find Twitter fun and kind of irresistible, but I don't...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, RSS, Twitter

Discussion threads 2009-04-06

Bright day for Silicon Valley solar company

Solar collector panels. Courtesy SolFocus. SolFocus of Mountain View says they will be helping build several solar collector installations in Greece. Partnering with an investment firm and an engineering firm, SolFocus says the original agreement for solar collection work in Greece has been increased...

Tags: Greece, Photovoltaics, Courtesy SolFocus, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-09

Free antenna experiment…any takers?

Free antenna experiment…any takers?This is old...I found an article on this about 3 years ago in either Science Digest or Discover Magazine. I didn't need to try it because my wireless router is only about 20 feet my my living room PC, so I can't offer up any proof...

Tags: Federal government, FCC, taker

Discussion threads 2009-02-24

Swedish greentech will miss the Bush Admin

Swedish greentech will miss the Bush AdminA couple of pointsFirst, Mercedes did not fail to save Chrysler, but rather ran them into the ground. I would hold out little hope that Fiat would be any better. If Chrysler is to be sold again, one of the Japanese manufacturers...

Tags: Manufacturing, Chrysler LLC, Mercedes

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

News to know: Windows 7; Oracle patches; CES wrap; Satyam saga

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft reboots borked Windows 7 Beta The Windows Blog: Here's where we stand Joe Brockmeier: Windows 7 as "Linux killer"? How times have...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Satyam, Patch Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-12

MW exhibitors: traffic down about 20%

A couple of exhibitors I spoke to on the show floor here at Macworld Expo told me that booth traffic was down "about 20 percent" over last year. Some were higher or lower but a couple said 20 percent was a good number. Some exhibitors selling products directly on the...

Tags: Traffic, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?Again?He's not even president yet. How about laying some of the blame on the current president? You know, the one who inherited a $500 billion surplus upon entering office and parlayed it into a $10 trillion debt upon leaving?...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Obama, tax

Discussion threads 2009-01-02