Self-sustaining fusion: a reactor is on the horizon-but will it always be on the horizon?
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Thermonuclear fusion is an attractive energy resource, which relies on hydrogen fuel that abounds on processes that release no greenhouse gas. The fusion reactors, if made to work economically, could face the challenge of achieving a net energy gain and, even tougher, a net economic gain.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2004
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Get-rich-quick scheme
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Michael B.Gordon and Vinay Gupta of ConsumerPowerline in New York City, developed Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP), a service that helps the consumers to save the electric power and to sell the saved electricity to the power systems.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2006
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Protecting the big easy from the next big one
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The work entrusted by the United States Congress to the U.S. Army Corps to build a hurricane protection system for New Orleans is discussed.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 2007
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