Why Smart Meters And Real Time Prices Are Not The Solution
The story that we are often told about modern electricity grids goes like this: In the smart grid, the smart meter is the gateway for…
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Toward The Flexible Operation Of Integrated Community Energy System: A Two-Stage Multi-Objective Scheduling Method
With the growing concerns over the energy depletion and environmental challenges around the world, increasing attention is being paid to the issues in energy conservation,…
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Homeowners Respond To Energy Efficiency Thresholds When Investing In Home Retrofits
Ireland has a system to grade the energy efficiency of residential buildings, called a Building Energy Rating (BER). A BER is a standardized assessment of…
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Improving Sustainability In Construction By Analyzing Whole Life Cycle Energy
Buildings concentrate 40% of total energy used in Europe, so the improvement of the sustainability of constructions through a more efficient and use of buildings…
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Thinking Creatively About Residential Solar PV System Optimization: The Solar Plus Approach
Grid-tied residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems reduce customer grid electricity costs. In most major PV markets, customers are also compensated for PV output exported to…
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Tailoring Of Graphene By Strain For Electrochemical Sensors
Chemical sensors have gained increasing attraction for applications in environmental monitoring, industrial process monitoring, medical diagnostics, national defense, and public security. Among a variety of…
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Studying The First Stages Of Aluminum Oxidation With Quantum Mechanical Modeling
Aluminum is an abundant metal in the Earth’s crust and has become widely used in a large diversity of applications also due to its desirable…
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A Challenge For Making Hard-to-fly Stuffs Fly: An Introduction Of Simple And Effective Methods For Protein MALDI-TOF MS
Mass spectrometry (MS) has been a powerful tool for analyzing the molecular weights of the biological components comprising our body. Biochemists routinely utilize the information…
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Ru@Pt Nanoparticle On Graphene-CNT Composite As A Porous Electrode For Flow Through Microfluidic Fuel Cell
Microfluidic fuel cells (MFC) have been studied extensively since the last decade. Compare with conventional fuel cells, particularly Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) and…
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Forests Need Water And We Need Forests: The Water Footprint Of Wood And Derived Products
Forests need water. Without water, there is no vegetation. When it rains over a forest, the rainwater wets the leaves and the soil surface. The…
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Tracking The Use Of Garbage In Nest-Building Among Bird Species
Nest-building behavior has fascinated scientists for ages. It is known that this behavior is not driven entirely by instinct; individual quality, experience, and ability to…
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