Gulf Disaster: Predicting Spread of
Oil
Keeping in the line
of thought there is always a silver lining to any dark cloud, there
is now a new way of predicting how contaminants like oil will
spread.
Taking the Deepwater
Horizon disaster and attempting to learn something from it, a UC
Santa Barbara scientist was able to forecast several days in
advance that oil from the spill would wash ashore in particular
parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Security Alert: Flash Drives a Fierce
Threat
Flash memory
infiltrates behind corporate firewalls and connects to the
enterprise every day. That threat has been almost invisible for
years and even now companies are not able to handle it.
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Mini Aerial Robots for
Search,
Rescue
A millionth-scale
automobile differential can help govern the flight of minuscule
aerial robots that could someday probe environmental hazards,
forest fires, and other places too perilous for people.
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Unmanned Drone to Fight Against
Terrorists
It is all about
fighting off terrorism and searching areas man can't get into. Oh
yeah, it is also about winning a competition.
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Safety at Sea: Morphing Plane to
Rescue
A small and
cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle intended to cut the cost of
maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material
and human lives is now under development.
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Hydrogen Nano Storage With Pinch of
Salt
Sugar, salt, and a
little alcohol led to the discovery of a new class of
nanostructures that could aid in gas storage and food and medical
technologies.
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Solar Energy That Rebuilds
Itself
Plants are good at
doing what man has had a hard time doing for decades: Reliably
converting sunlight into stored energy.
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Dye Mixtures Hike Solar Cell
Efficiency
As the old saying
goes, you have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run.
Advances in solar devices are very similar.
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Generating Wave Power Down
Under
Wave energy is
surging ahead as a viable source of renewable energy to generate
electricity.
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Slow Light a Boost for
Optical
Communications
A tiny optical device
built into a silicon chip achieved the slowest light propagation on
a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of
1,200.
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Super Fast Computers Via
Spintronics
Using powerful
lasers, there is now a new way to recognize currents of spinning
electrons within a semiconductor, which could lead to the
development of superior computers and electronics.
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Security, Engineering Need to
Communicate
Industrial control
systems must continue to operate -- security cannot stall the
process. Yet, as of today the communication between the ICS and
cyber security experts is severely lacking.
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Alarm Management has become a popular
subject. In 2009, ISA published ANSI/ISA-18.2 Management of Alarm
Systems standard. This paper reviews its scope, regulatory impact,
requirements, recommendations, alarm definitions, etc.
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Security Remains a Focus With OPC
UA
When Tom
Burke walks to the podium to give a talk at a conference or even
when he first gets on the telephone for an interview, some of the
words that usually spill out within the first few sentences are OPC
UA and security.
"The vision of OPC is
to provide the best specifications, technology, certification and
process in support of our suppliers developing best-of-breed
products and services that consistently exceed the expectations of
the end-users for multivendor multiplatform secure reliable
interoperability," says Burke.
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