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News & Articles By Arsenio Toledo
02/26/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Energy expert: Texas power outage could have been prevented with significant investment
An energy expert has called the power emergency in Texas a “system-wide failure” at nearly every level that could have been prevented for a steep price. Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of energy systems engineering at Princeton University, pointed out that homes in Texas are not designed to deal with very cold weather, which caused customers to crank […]
02/23/2021
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By Arsenio Toledo
Texans have filed multiple lawsuits against ERCOT for failing to adequately respond to the cold snap
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the main body that manages the state’s primary electric grid, is being sued for ignoring repeated warnings regarding the vulnerabilities in Texas’ power infrastructure. A separate lawsuit involving the death of an 11-year-old, possibly to hypothermia, is accusing ERCOT of gross negligence and putting profits over the welfare […]
05/02/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
Researchers are working on turning plastic into fuel that could power homes
With nearly 80 percent of the world’s plastic waste ending up on landfills, all this plastic pollution needs to be reused quickly, or it may clog up the world’s oceans — potentially killing millions of animals, and seep into the air and the soil, threatening the health of groundwater and food crops. Researchers are proposing […]
02/09/2020
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By Arsenio Toledo
French researchers claim to have created metallic hydrogen in a lab: Material can “conduct electricity indefinitely at room temperature”
Metallic hydrogen is a state of hydrogen wherein the element is able to conduct electricity. Scientists have spent close to a century attempting to create this material. A team of French researchers now claim that they’ve done it. Normally, hydrogen isn’t a great conductor. However, physicists since the 1930s have suspected that if hydrogen were to be […]
12/15/2019
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By Arsenio Toledo
Researchers design cost-efficient, clean fuel cells that might soon replace traditional gas engines in cars
Fuel cell technology has been around for some time. The first truly modern fuel cell vehicles came from the 1950s and 1960s, when they were used on experimental vehicles such as the 1966 Electrovan, a van which was outfitted with a fuel cell that took up so much space it could only fit two people. Fuel cell technology was even used by […]
10/25/2019
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By Arsenio Toledo
10 Ugly truths about long-term power outages and how to deal with them
Perhaps you have already experienced short blackouts and have prepared for them – but what about a power outage that lasts for weeks or even months? It’s important to understand what a long-term blackout entails in order to fully prepare for it. Here are 10 things to note about a long-term power outage. (h/t to […]
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