Every major storm season, the same pattern repeats: the power fails, the portable generators come out, and carbon monoxide quietly starts to build where it should not. You hear the rule of thumb about ...

Place a thermometer inside a glass of water, place the glass on the middle shelf of the refrigerator and let it sit for at ...

The theory behind hydropower is very simple: water obeys gravity and imparts the gained kinetic energy onto a turbine, which subsequently drives a generator.  The devil here is, of course, in all ...

While there aren't a lot of moving parts on a stovetop, it is possible for connections to come loose, particularly during cleaning or installation. If the wires which connect the igniter to the ...

Testing a regulator all the way down to zero volts to see how it behaves and finding an output level, below which bad things ...

Abstract: The high energy consumption load has the characteristics of nonlinearity and time-varying,which causes large-scale reactive power shortage in the grid industry. In this paper, the optimal ...