Electricity

Tech Budget 2024: Today, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the interim budget for 2024-25 with the aim of fostering and speeding up the greater development of India. As part of the announcement, Sitharaman highlighted the installation of rooftop solarization in 1 crore households which will help obtain up to 300 units of free electricity every month. FM further said, “This scheme follows the resolve of the Prime Minister on the historic day of the consecration of Shri Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.” This move will…

The total number of electricity customers in Nigeria stood at 11.71 million in the third quarter of 2023, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has shown. The bureau revealed this in its Nigeria electricity report detailing energy billed, revenue generated and customers by DisCos (Q3 2023) published on Wednesday. “Total customer numbers in Q3 2023 stood at 11.71 million from 11.47 million in Q2 2023, showing an increase of 2.08 per cent,” NBS said. On a year-on-year basis, the statistics office said…

After spending $40,000 to electrify her Boulder home, which included installing heat pumps, K.K. DuVivier was ready to disconnect from natural gas and have her meter turned off. Then she got the bill to flip the switch: $5,333. The bill marked due Dec. 12 arrived after what DuVivier described as frustrating rounds of calls and emails as she tried to stop the gas service she no longer needs from Xcel Energy. The bill didn’t say why she owed more than $5,000. When she contacted Xcel again, DuVivier got an email saying the…

An XLR cable is an essential addition when dealing with professional audio, video, or stage lighting equipment. It’s also pretty important even when using one of the best microphones for streaming such as if you’ve recently become a pro streamer or video editor. Maybe not the most exciting of tools to buy, you really need them in your life if you regularly record your voice. Able to provide analog balanced audio, it’s important to buy the best XLR cables for your needs. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean you have…

Global electricity demand from data centers, cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence could more than double over the next three years, adding the equivalent of Germany's entire power needs, the International Energy Agency forecasts in its latest report.There are more than 8,000 data centers globally, with about 33% in the US, 16% in Europe and close to 10 percent in China, with more planned. In Ireland, where data centers are developing rapidly, the IEA expects the sector to consume 32% of the country's total…

Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: IAE: electricity used by data centers, crypto, and AI may more than double in the next three years; Irish data centers will use 32% of its electricity by 2026 — - Cryptocurrency, AI to dominate demand, IEA report finds — Increase in demand will be covered by renewables, nuclear Eamon Farhat / Bloomberg: IAE: electricity used by data centers, crypto, and AI may more than double in the next three years; Irish data centers will use 32% of its electricity by…

Energy supply is one of the bigger issues impacting how technology will evolve over time — a challenge that might be feel closer to home when you consider the batteries of objects like mobile phones or electric vehicles but is definitely not constrained just to consumer tech. A startup called Instagrid is using software to scale that mountain when it comes to enterprise-grade portable chargers. It’s been getting a lot of attention, selling 30,000 units of its flagship “One” product to date and growing at 100%…

While renewable energy sources certainly are more eco-friendly than fossil fuels, most of them only produce electricity in one way, such as using sunlight … which isn't always available. A new system, that has been built into an artificial plant, uses both wind and rain.The experimental "power plant" was developed by an international team of scientists led by Prof. Ravinder Dahiya from Boston's Northeastern University. It incorporates energy collectors of two types, both of which were created in a visually appealing leaf…

Canada's forestry sector is responsible for far more greenhouse gas emissions than show up in official tallies, potentially leading to policies that aren't in line with the country's climate goals, a new study suggests.The peer-reviewed study, published in the academic journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that annual greenhouse gas emissions attributable to forestry between 2005 and 2021 were, on average, nearly 91 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent — which would put the sector on par with…

Born tail first, bottlenose dolphin calves are initially adorned with two delicate rows of whiskers along their snout, resembling the tactile whiskers of seals. However, these whiskers are shed shortly after birth, leaving behind a pattern of indentations called vibrissal pits. Recently, Tim Hüttner and Guido Dehnhardt, researchers from the University of Rostock in Germany, began to suspect that these pits might serve a purpose beyond being mere remnants.Could they allow adult bottlenose dolphins to sense weak electric…