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Department of Energy - Smart Grid “Smart grid” generally refers to a class of technology people are using to bring utility electricity delivery systems into the 21st century, using computer-based remote control and automation. These systems are made possible by two-way communication technology and computer processing that has been used for decades in other industries. They are beginning to be used on electricity networks, from the power plants and wind farms all the way to the consumers of electricity in homes and businesses. They offer many benefits to utilities and consumers -- mostly seen in big improvements in energy efficiency on the electricity grid and in the energy users’ homes and offices. For a century, utility companies have had to send workers out to gather much of the data needed to provide electricity. The “grid” amounts to the networks that carry electricity from the plants where it is generated to consumers. The key activities that comprise OE’s smart grid strategy are summarized below.

Publications by Googlers Google publishes hundreds of research papers each year. Publishing is important to us; it enables us to collaborate and share ideas with, as well as learn from, the broader scientific community. Submissions are often made stronger by the fact that ideas have been tested through real product implementation by the time of publication. We believe the formal structures of publishing today are changing - in computer science especially, there are multiple ways of disseminating information. We encourage publication both in conventional scientific venues, and through other venues such as industry forums, standards bodies, and open source software and product feature releases. Open Source We understand the value of a collaborative ecosystem and love open-source software. Product and Feature Launches With every launch, we're publishing progress and pushing functionality. Industry Standards Our researchers are often helping to define not just today's products but also tomorrow's. Resources Impact

RE<C - A Google.org Project to Develop Electricity from Renewable Energy Sources Our approach to RE<C Through RE<C, we made several investments in companies working on potentially breakthrough technologies. For instance, we invested in companies like Brightsource Energy and eSolar to help expand their work on concentrating solar power technology, and in Potter Drilling to advance its innovative geothermal drilling technology. And we've also sponsored research to develop the most state of the art Geothermal Map of the US, helping better understand the potential for geothermal energy to provide renewable power that’s always available. And we’ve had an engineering team working to improve a type of concentrating solar power technology called the solar power tower. The solar power tower is an exciting technology that works by using a field of mirrors, called heliostats, to concentrate the sun’s rays onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of progress in clean energy. What we’ve learned Brayton project overview

SmartGrids: European Technology Platform Technology The technology behind Google's great results As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? Building upon the breakthrough work of B. Why Google's patented PigeonRank™ works so well PigeonRank's success relies primarily on the superior trainability of the domestic pigeon (Columba livia) and its unique capacity to recognize objects regardless of spatial orientation. By collecting flocks of pigeons in dense clusters, Google is able to process search queries at speeds superior to traditional search engines, which typically rely on birds of prey, brooding hens or slow-moving waterfowl to do their relevance rankings. When a search query is submitted to Google, it is routed to a data coop where monitors flash result pages at blazing speeds. Integrity Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. Data How was PigeonRank developed?

Projects - Technology-Driven Solutions that Address Global Challenges Solutions to help the world live and work more sustainably We developed the Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C) initiative to drive down the cost of renewable energy. We’ve published our results to help others in the field continue to advance the state of concentrating solar technologies. Go to RE<C Google Earth Engine Google Earth Engine, now part of Google Geo, makes decades of satellite imagery archives, data and tools available to scientists and governments around the world so they can monitor and measure changes in the Earth’s environment. Go to Google Earth Engine RechargeIT RechargeIT was launched to demonstrate plug-in electric vehicle (EV) technology and accelerate its adoption. Go to RechargeIT PowerMeter We developed Google PowerMeter as a free energy monitoring tool to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. Go to PowerMeter Investments and grants Informing health policies and providing early warning systems for disease outbreaks

Texas Electricity Ratings: The Blog Encyclopédie des produits et services de Google - WebRankInfo Les produits et services les plus populaires Accédez rapidement aux produits les plus populaires : YouTube vidéo, la messagerie Gmail, le navigateur Chrome, les cartes Google Maps, la vue satellite de la Terre Google Earth, Google Analytics, les liens sponsorisés AdWords (et l'affiliation AdSense). Classements par types Vous pouvez aussi lister uniquement : Les logiciels Les extensions Les app. mobiles Les API Les gratuits Les payants Les technologies Les produits sur matériel spécifique Les fermés Les revendus Cherchez par mots-clés Si vous avez des remarques à faire (signaler une erreur, suggérer un nouveau produit ou service, etc.), remplissez ce formulaire et je vous répondrai rapidement. Un moteur de recherche est également à votre disposition pour chercher parmi tous les produits et services de Google. Les 225 produits et services de Google Cliquez sur un nom pour en savoir plus... Google Measure MapOutil de statistiques conçu pour les blogs, racheté par Google en 2006.

RechargeIT.org RechargeIT was launched in 2007 as an effort within Google.org to demonstrate plug-in electric vehicle (EV) technology and accelerate its adoption. With several new EV’s now available in the marketplace, we’ve retired the RechargeIT initiative. In fact, we’ve updated our EV infrastructure to include more than 30 of the newest plug-in vehicles as part of our employee car sharing service, Gfleet. When we launched RechargeIT in 2007, there were no commercially available plug-in hybrid EV’s available in the market. The RechargeIT Demonstration Fleet Back in 2007, with no commercially available vehicles to test, we had eight Toyota Prius’ retrofitted to make them plug-in hybrid vehicles. The system to collect data from our fleet consisted of an embedded computer running Linux, a wireless data card, a GPS and an AC power monitoring device to monitor charge power. During charging, the system monitored and recorded the AC charge power. The driving experiment See full results »

Monitor Your Home Power Usage by Building a DIY Power Meter Reader - How-To Geek ETC Commercial meter readers are expensive; this DIY hack allows you to cheaply monitor your power consumption for a greener tomorrow (and, realistically, a much lower bill). Paul discovered that his digital power meter sent out a pulse of IR light every time a watt-hour of power was consumed. He built a simple monitoring assembly in a project box that consisted of a small circuit board and a photo transistor. It’s a clever and inexpensive hack (it cost him less $20). You can check out the details of his build at the link below. IRMeterMon [via Hack-A-Day] Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek.

Search. Explore. Experience – Apture How to Learn a Programming Language: 7 steps Edit Article Edited by Bourkas, Tom Viren, Ben Rubenstein, Compmod129 and 77 others Whether you want to design a video game, develop some cool apps for iPhone or Android or just want to do it for fun, programming is the way to go. There are countless programming languages for all sorts of uses, but learning them is easy once you learn how to use one. Ad Steps 1Decide your goal. 10Have a lot of practice. Tips When you learn something new, it is often helpful to implement it yourself and then tweak the design, predicting the results, to make sure you understand the concept.For practice, try to teach others. Sources and Citations How To Become A Hacker, an essay by Eric S.

List of Google products From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a list of products, services, and apps provided by Google. Active, soon-to-be discontinued, and discontinued products, services, tools, hardware, and other applications are broken out into designated sections. Desktop applications [edit] Mobile applications Scheduled to be discontinued Applications that are no longer in development and scheduled to be discontinued in the future: Google URL Shortener – URL shortening service. Discontinued products and services Google has retired many offerings, either because of obsolescence, integration into other Google products, or lack of interest.[20] Google's discontinued offerings are colloquially referred to as Google Graveyard.[21][22]

Basic Cisco 800 Router Configuration for Internet Access | Networks Training advertisement The Cisco 800 series routers are part of the “Branch Office” category, used mainly for SOHO purposes or for connecting remote branch offices to a central location. They are “fixed hardware configuration” devices, meaning that they don’t have any plug-in hardware slots for inserting additional interfaces to the device (all the interfaces are fixed). All the 800 series models come with a 4-port 10/100 managed switch used for connecting the internal LAN computers, and with an IOS software that supports security features including the Firewall set. In this post I will describe a basic configuration scenario for connecting a Cisco 800 router for Internet access. Something to have in mind for all 800 series routers, the four LAN interfaces (FE0 up to FE3) are Layer2 switch interfaces that are assigned by default to Vlan1. I will describe three basic scenarios which are frequently encountered in real networks. Scenario 1: Configuration: configure terminal ! ! ! ! ! ! Scenario 2: ! ! !