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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. Henry Ellis Warren was born in Boston on 21 May 1872, a decade before Edison’s Pearl Street Station went online, in New York City, ushering in the dawn of the electric age.

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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution

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From the start of her career at General Electric in 1922, she was determined to develop stable, more reliable power grids. And Clarke succeeded, playing a critical role in the rapid expansion of the North American electric grid during the 1920s and ’30s. During the next few years, she developed a passion for power engineering.

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Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, Dies at 91

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Dennard began his career as a staff engineer at IBM ’s New York City research lab. He worked on new devices and circuits for logic and memory applications and developed advanced data communication techniques. at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. Two years later he earned a Ph.D.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. And it slowed urgent repair and maintenance of the power grid, with work crews having to practice social distancing due to the pandemic. Step 1: Identify outages in real time.

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Startups Squeeze Room-Size Optical Atomic Clocks Into a Briefcase

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Walking into Jun Ye ’s lab at the University of Colorado Boulder is a bit like walking into an electronic jungle. This is one of the world’s most precise and accurate clocks, and it’s so accurate that you’d have to wait 40 billion years—or three times the age of the universe—for it to be off by one second.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. power-grid transmission. year grid study from the U.S.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

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One initiative is to establish an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) to develop an industry-driven research portfolio with the goal of catalyzing the decarbonization of the chemical sector. “We While still new, the initiative is ramping up its activities.