Posted June 18, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly looking to natural composites, such as bone, for inspiration: Bone is strong ...
Posted June 18, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Arc flashes—the fiery explosions that can result from short circuits in high-power electrical devices—kill hundreds of workers in the U.S. every year and permanently injure thousands more. They ca...
Posted June 17, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
In the near future, a buzz in your belt or a pulse from your jacket may give you instructions on how to navigate your surroundings.
Think of it as tactile Morse code: vibrations from a wearable, GP...
Posted June 17, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Most companies hope to get as much as 20 years of dependable service from their data centers. Some of the key mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) components that data centers rely on are not des...
Posted June 14, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an i...
Posted June 14, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Virtualization brings the potential to deliver dramatic savings in terms of server count, footprint, power consumption and cooling requirements for data centers. For all its advantages though, virtual...
Posted June 13, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you're at Argonne National Laboratory.
At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly defied the laws of physics and fou...
Posted June 13, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Using outdated, standalone software from multiple vendors to monitor and manage uninterruptible power systems (UPSs), power distribution units (PDUs) and other crucial power quality devices can create...
Posted June 12, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a player's hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, accordi...
Posted June 12, 2013 by Zen Kishimoto in Editorial
This blog is for ICT people and not for electric power people. Therefore, please bear with a short description to set the stage before I continue.
The power industry is in the midst of a revolution...
Posted June 12, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Data center availability has become an essential precondition to competitiveness and profitability. Yet despite their best efforts to achieve five nines availability, businesses remain vulnerable to a...
Posted June 11, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Researchers from the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and the Department of Physics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) have studied the spread of radioactive stro...
Posted June 11, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
Arc flash events in the data center could have potentially lethal consequences for employees. Read this guide and learn six key ways to prevent arc flash-related fatalities in your 400V data center. R...
Posted June 10, 2013 by Eng-Tips in News
Nanotechnologies require a detailed knowledge of the molecular state. For instance, it is useful to know when and how a generic polymer, a long chain of polymers (chain of beads), knots. The study of ...
Posted June 10, 2013 by Eaton in Editorial
As power density in modern data centers has increased, IT pros are increasingly focused on ensuring efficiency in their power distribution infrastructure.
This paper explores a variety of practical...
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